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peace, 397; superseded by Johnston, 397; retreat to Charlotte, 424.
Bell, Colonel, in command of brigade before Fort Fisher, III., 337-33; mortally wounded, 339.
Bell's ferry, destruction of national gunboat at, III., 242.
Belmont, battle of; 17-19; results, 20, 21.
Benham, General Henry W., builds pontoon bridge over the James, II., 375.
Bentonsville, battle of, III., 429-432.
Bermuda hundred, position of II., 248; capture of, 248; Butler retreats to, 254; Smith arrives at, 354; battles of June 16 and 17, 1864, 363, 367, 368; fortifications at, III 4, 7.
Big Black river, battle of, i., 275, 278.
Birney, General D. B., in temporary command of Second corps before Petersburg, II., 369, 382; second movement at Deep Bottom, 505, 511; Butler's movement from Deep Bottom, III., 70.
Blacks, employed in trench work at Vicksburg, i., 337; arming the, 407; at Spottsylvania, II., 208; at mine explosion, 477,481; enthusiasm for Lincoln, 381; arming of by rebels, III., 353.
Blair, General frank P., loyalty to duty of, II., 462; joins Sherman's army in Georgia, 536.
Blockade, efficiency of, III., 224, Blue Mountain, Hood at, III., 56
Bowen, General, defeat of at Port Gibson, i. 210.
Bragg, General Braxton, opposed to Buell in Tennessee, i., 110, 143; attacks and routs Rosecrans, 433; besieges Chattanooga, 434; sends Longstreet against Burnside, 458; battle of Chattanooga, 485-511; generalship of, 526-528; relieved from command, 550; summoned to Georgia, III., 223; ordered to oppose Sherman, 291; in command in North Carolina, 312; supineness of, at Fort Fisher, 346. Breckenridge, General John C., reinforces Lee on the North Anna, II., 226, 261; dispatched to Shenandoah Valley to confront Hunter, 345; defeats Sigel in Valley of Virginia, 417; in Early's campaign, 431, 432; in East Tennessee, III., 191; rebel Secretary of War, 395; prepares for evacuation of Richmond, 398; interview with Sherman after fall of Richmond, 629.
Breese Lieutenant-commander, before Fort Fisher, III., 338.
British government, sympathy for rebels of, III., 139, 348.
British industries and contraband commerce, III., 224.
Brown's ferry, W. F. Smith's expedition against, i., 447.
Bruinsburg, Grant lands at, i., 200.
Buckner, General S. B., at Fort Donelson, i., 47; Grant's message to, 49 surrender of Fort Donelson, 49.
Buell, General D. C., in command of department of the Ohio, i., 34; ordered to reinforce Grant, 34; slow movements of, 68; at Shiloh, 82, 86, 88, 89; at Corinth, 105; dispatched after Beauregard, 105; opposes Bragg in Tennessee, 110; outmanoeuvred by Bragg, 431; is relieved, 431; refuses a command, II., 2; dismissed from volunteer army, 52.
Burksville, Lee's flight to, III., 531, 537; manoeuvres of Grant to acquire possession of; 547-563; Jefferson Davis at, 555; Ord arrives at 567.
Burnside, General A. E., campaign of in East Tennessee, i., 439; destitution of troops, 452; anxiety in regard to 481; Sherman ordered to his relief, 523; isolated position of; 535; Longstreet's assault on Knoxville, 535-541; arrival of Sherman, 543; Knoxville relieved, 543; moves in pursuit of Longstreet, 545; errors of 547; at the Wilderness, II., 105, 122; at Spottsylvania, 148-165; from Spottsylvania to North Anna, 206-231: self-abnegation, 261; at Cold Harbor, 280 281, 289, 299; on the Chickahominy, 348. 348; crosses the James, 363; first assaults on Petersburg, 365, 375; Cemetery Hill and the nine, 465, 479-482; granted leave of absence, II., 489.
Butler, General B. F. his part in general campaign of 1864, II. 31, 33, 34, 44-47, 86, 89; visited by & rant at Fort Monroe, 41-45; rebel capture of Plymouth, 56, 57; lands at City Point, 133; reports success 151; movements near Bermuda Hundred, 170; failure, 200; campaign of May, 1864, 241-259; characteristics as a soldier, 246, 253, 255; at Bermuda Hundred, June, 1864, 342; sends two expeditions against Petersburg, 343: ordered to obstruct navigation of the James, 351; instructed to attack Petersburg, 353; army gunboats, 354; loses ground at Bermuda Hundred, 367; bridge at Deep Bottom, 392; Grant's views of his capabilities, 463, 464; reduces his forces to aid Hancock, 505; at Deep Bottom, III., 68, 70; at Fort Harrison, 76; second movement north of James river, 115-122; ordered to New York to preserve order during election, 171; Fort Fisher affair, 225, 229, 235, 246, 307, 323; relieved from command, 329.
Cairo, Grant arrives at, i., 11; Grant in command of district of, 25.
New York Appleton 1885.
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