William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac

[626] its strength before Chancellorsville, 269; passage of the Rappahannock before Chancellorsville, 270); strength after Chancellorsville, 310; Meade appointed to command, 323; Hooker resigns command, 323; Gettysburg campaign, 326; campaign of manoeuvres, 373; Mine Run move, 398; in winter-quarters, 398; overland campaign, the, 402; reorganized into three corps-Hancock, Sedgwick, and Warren, 410; Sheridan appointed to command cavalry, 412; before Petersburg, 507; ceases to exist, 622.

Army of Virginia formed by McDowell's, Fremont's, and Banks's armies, 168; absorbed into the Potomac army, 193.

Auburn, Stuart bivouacks within Union lines at, 381; Caldwell attacked in rear at, 381.

Austrian Aulic council and its Washington prototype, 96.

Banks's (Department of the Shenandoah) position during McClellan's advance, 122; at Strasburg with 16,000 men, 122; fights at, and retreats from, Winchester to north bank of Potomac, 125; General, at battle of Cedar Mountain. 173.

Badge system of the Potomac army, its origin and value, 268.

Baker, Colonel, death at battle of Ball's Bluff, 77.

Ball's Bluff, the battle of, 75.

Barnard, General, on early ideas on quelling the rebellion, 29; on assaulting Yorktown, 110; on the passage of the Chickahominy, 130.

Bethel, Butler, General, plan for capture of Big and Little, 31.

Big Bethel, the affair of, 31.

Birney, evidence on Meade's attack at Fredericksburg, 248.

Blackburn's Ford, General Tyler's repulse at, 48.

Blair, Postmaster-General, on advance via York River, 83.

Blenker's division detached from Mc-Clellan to join Fremont, 93.

Bolivar Heights, the position of, 206.

Bottom's Bridge, purpose of throwing Potomac army on Richmond side of the Chickahominy, 121.

Boydton plankroad, action of, 542.

Braddock Road, origin of the name, 47.

Brandy Station, cavalry action at, 313.

Bristoe Station, Hooker's defeat of Ewell at, 179; race of the two armies for, 380; battle of, 383.

Buckland's Mills, Kilpatrick's cavalry action at, 386.

Buford, General, at Gettysburg, 328.

Bull Run, battle of—see Manassas.

Bull Run the Second—see Manassas No. 2.

Burgess's Mill—see Southside Railroad.

Burnside, General A. E., at Antietam —see Antietam; appointed to command Potomac army, 227; his opinion of his unfitness for the chief command, 230; change of base to Fredericksburg considered, 232; his delay at Warrenton to reorganize, 232; move to Fredericksburg, 233; intentions and plan of operations via Fredericksburg, 233; opinion on direct crossing at Fredericksburg, 237; desperation at repeated failures, 251; instructions to wait orders from the President, 257; contemplated attempt on Lee's rear, 257; lost the confidence of the army, 258-261; his career as commander of the Potomac army considered, 261; he resigns his command, 261; spirit of his officers, 262; (Ninth) corps joins Meade, 413; the Petersburg mine, 518.

Butler, General B. F., design of raid on Richmond, 398; campaign on the James—see James River.

Calls for troops by President Lincoln, 14, 29, 30. Campaign of Manoeuvres, 373; of manoeuvres criticised, 388.

Carnot on military discipline, 67; on the bombardment of towns, 241; on selection of troops for assault, 521.

Carrick's Ford, General Garnett defeated and killed—West Virginia campaign ended, 39.

Cedar Creek, the battle of, 561; General Wright commanding in Sherdan's absence, 561; retreat of the Union army beyond Middletown, 562; Sheridan arrives in front, 562; Early attacked in turn and routed, 563; Early pursued beyond Strasburg, 563; Early retreats southward, 563.