R. R. bridges, 89
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 141
Bates, Attorney-General, 122
Banks, General N. P., 208
Barrancas, Fort, 88
Beauregard, General G. T., 56; directs operations against Fort Sumter, 57, 59; placed in command at Manassas, 170; his first measures, 170, 171; his plan for the battle of Bull Run, 176 et seq.; composition of his army, 176, note
Beckham, Lieut., 194
Bee, General, 185
Bell, adherents of, 8
Benham, Captain, 152
Beverly, 142, 146, 151
Black, Secretary, 26, 38
Blackburn's Ford, 176, note; engagement at, 178
Blair, Francis P., 109
Blair, Frank P., Jr., 116 et seq., 122
Blair, Montgomery, 122
Blair's Home Guards, 118
Blenker, General L, 174
Boonville, battle of, 123
Border Slave States, 80
Breckinridge, John C., Southern electoral votes cast for, 4, 8
Breckinridge party, character of, 8
Brown, John, 158
Brown, Governor, of Georgia, 12
Brown, Mayor, of Baltimore, 86, 89 et seq.
Buchanan, Jam