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Index
*** The names of national officers are in small capitals; those of rebels, in
italics.
Abercrombie, General J. J., attacked at
White House, II. 391.
Allatoona pass, turned by
Sherman, II., 535; rebels repulsed from, III., 57.
Allen Colonel Robert, offered command of entire army at
Corinth by
Halleck, i., 107.
Ames, General, Adalbert, at
Fort Fisher, III., 313, 313, 337-345.
Anderson, General R. H., at
Spottsylvania, II., 141,147; at Cold Harbor, 279; at
Culpeper, II., 504; in Valley of
Virginia, III., 19-27.
Appomattox court-house,
Grant's march to, III., 586, 591; battle at, 593; surrender of
Lee at, 597-613.
Appomattox river, course of, II., 340;
W. F. Smith's movement across, 355; crossed by army of Potomac, III., 582.
Arkansas, in possession of enemy, II., 2; department of, under
Steele, 31, 60, 77;
Canby in supreme command of; 204;
Price marches through to invade
Missouri, III., 44;
Price retreats to, 388; operations in, disconnected with principal objects of the war, 389.
Arkansas Post, capture of, i., 148.
Army, national, at commencement of war, i., 3.
Athens, capture of, by
Forrest, III., 57, 152, 181.
Atlanta, objective point of
Sherman, II., 35, 533; campaign against, II., 532 543; siege of, 542-545; evacuated by rebels, 546; comparison of operations against with those in front of
Richmond, 549; political effect of fall of, III., 16;
Sherman ordered to destroy military stores at, 154; foundries and machine-shops destroyed at, 283;
Sherman moves from, 283.
Augur, General C. C., in command of department of Washington, II., 31; required by
Grant to send forces to protect
Sheridan's rear, III., 83.
Augusta, position of, III., 45; communication cut between
Macon and, 288;
Bragg's arrival at, 291.
Averill, General W. W., in
West Virginia, II., 195; joins
Hunter at
Staunton, 418; at
Hanging Rock, 422; pursuit of
McCausland, 493; in army of the Shenandoah, 504; at battle of
Fisher's hill, III., 32.
Averysboro, battle of, III., 428, 429.
Ayres, General R. B., at Weldon road, II. 515; at
Hatcher's run, III. 124; at White Oak road, 461; at battle of
Five Forks, 480-492.
Bailey,
Lieutenant-Colonel J., saves Mississippi squadron, II., 78; promoted to brigadier-general 79.
Banks, General N. P., expedition against
Port Hudson, i., 160; applies to
Grant for reinforcements, 356; receives surrender of
Port Hudson, 392; in command of department of the Gulf, II., 31; his part in general plan of campaign, 1864, 36, 39, 50, 51;
Red river campaign, 57-86; instructions for general campaign, 64; delay of, 76; defeat of, 77;
Grant asks for removal of, 81, 203; supersedure of; 204.
Barlow, General F. C., on the
Po river, II., 157; at
Spottsylvania, 172; at Cold Harbor, 291; at
Deep Bottom, 507; at Ream's station, 527; in
Appomattox campaign, III., 532, 583.
Baton Rouge expedition from, III., 175.
Beaufort harbor,
Porter's fleet at, III., 308;
Butler's transports at, 308.
Beaurefard, General P. C. T., at
Shiloh, 1., 84; siege of
Corinth, 101; retreat from
Corinth, 102; attack on
Butler at Drury's Bluff, II. 253; in front of
Bermuda Hundred, 344, 347, 348; at
Petersburg, June, 1864, 363;
Petersburg saved by, 374; in general command at West, III., 169; approves of
Hood's advance into
Tennessee, 203; summoned from the
West to
Georgia, 223: underestimates
Sherman's force, 288; command extended to sea-coast, 291; proposition to crush national army and dictate