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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 3 (search)
jaw; and has the massive features and the heavy folds round the eye that often mark a man of ability. Then the officers were asked to take a little whiskey chez Botts. Talked there with his niece, a dwarfish little woman of middle age, who seems a great invalid. She was all of a tremor, poor woman, by the mere display of troops, being but nervous and associating them with the fighting she had seen round the very house. Then there was a refreshment at Birney's Headquarters, where met Captain Briscoe (said to be the son of an Irish nobleman, etc., etc.); also Major Mitchell on General Hancock's Staff. The Russ was delighted with the politeness and pleased with the troops. Introduced to General Sheridan, the new Chief of Cavalry--a small, broad-shouldered, squat man, with black hair and a square head. He is of Irish parents, but looks very like a Piedmontese. General Wilson, who is probably to have a division, is a slight person of a light complexion and with rather a pinched fac
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
vid Bell, 77, 82, 92, 94, 114, 117, 121, 135, 137, 150, 233; described, 107, 188; at Cold Harbor, 146; at Petersburg, 165, 170, 174; death of, 266. Blake, Peleg W., 169. Blunt, —, Miss., 76. Boissac,,----de, 254. Boleslaski,----Austrian officer, 20. Bonaparte, Napoleon, 114. Bootekoff, —, 62. Botiano, —, 308, 311. Botts, John Minor, 46, 82. Boydton plank road, 293, 347. Bradley, Joseph P., 315. Breckinridge, John Cabell, 136. Brevets, distribution of, 257, 289. Briscoe, James C., 82. Brockenbrough, Mrs., 131. Brooks, William Thomas Harbaugh, 148. Buford, John, 15, 40, 50; described, 21; advice to a volunteer aide, 35. Bullets, explosive, 102. Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 87, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 106, 108, 110, 114, 128, 134, 140, 211; at church, 120; corps incorporated, 127; at Smith's, 149; at Petersburg, 164, 167, 168, 197; mine, 199, 200, 310. Bushwhacking, 295. Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 118; orders demonstration, 68; Petersburg and, 160; descr<