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Milliken's bend, concentration of Grant's forces at, i., 186.

Missionary ridge, situation of, i., 427; seized by Bragg, 435; Thomas's assaults on, 488, 507-512; Sherman's assaults on, 495, 504-507.

Missouri, Grant's first service in, i., 10, 11; Rosecrans in command in, II. 30.

Mississippi, proposal to bring, into Union, i., 416.

Mississippi river military importance of, i., 123; rebel fortifications on, 124; Sherman's expedition, December, 1862, 135, tortuous course of, 157; forests and jungles of, 158.

Mississippi squadron, saved by Bailey, II., 78.

Mississippi valley, character of, i., 156.

Mobile, proposed capture of, i., 412, 413; Canby's force before, III., 637; capture of Spanish Fort and Blakely, 637 evacuation of, 637.

Montgomery, occupation of, III., 635.

Mott General G., at battle of the Wilderness, II., 110-121; at Spottsylvania, 166, 167; at Deep Bottom and Bailey's creek, 507.

Mower, General Joseph A., command transferred to Tennessee, III., 154; at Bentonsville, 431.

Murphy, Colonel R. C., abandons Iuka, i., 110; surrenders Holly Springs, 138; cashiered, 139.

Nashville, battle of, III., 249-279.

Nashville, situation at, in December, 184, III., 210-234; topography of, 249.

National army, right of suffrage of men in, III., 167; fourteen states authorize their soldiers to vote, 172.

National losses.—At Belmont i., 20; at Fort Henry, 32; at Fort Donelson, 51; at Shiloh, 91; at Iuka, 113; at Corinth, 117; Sherman's attack on Haine's bluff, 145; at Arkansas Post, 149; at Port Gibson, 211; at Raymond, 237; at Jackson, 249; at Champion's Hill, 269; at Black river bridge, 278; Vicksburg campaign 284; assaults on Vicksburg, 304-326; Sherman's movement against Jackson, 397; Vicksburg campaign and siege, 399; at battle of Chickamauga, 433; at Wauhatchie 450; at Ringgold, 521; at battle of Chattanooga, 524; at assault on Knoxville, 541; at battle of the Wilderness, II., 132; from Ewell's attack, May 19, 1864, 208; at Spottsylvania, 216; on North Anna, 237; Sheridan's raid to Richmond, 240; at Drury's Bluff, 254; at Cold Harbor, 302; in Wilderness campaign, 329; first assaults on Petersburg, 372; movement of June 22, 1864, 384; at St. Mary's church, 398; Wilson's raid, 411; at battle of Darbytown, 471; at Cemetery Hill, 483; at Weldon road, 515; at Ream's station, 531; at Kenesaw mountain, 538; in Atlanta campaign, 546, at battle of Winchester, III., 30; at Fisher's hill, 33; at Peeble's farm, 78; in Sheridan's Valley campaign, 104; at Hatcher's run, 126; at battle of Franklin, 212; Thomas's Tennessee campaign, 270; Sherman's march, 298; first Fort Fisher expedition, 314-316; second Fort Fisher expedition, 344; before Wilmington, 381; Sheridan's last raid, 417; at Averysboro, 428; at battle of Bentonsville, 431, 432; Schofield's movement on the Neuse, 434; attack on Fort Steadman, 447; at battle of Five Forks, 495; Appomattox campaign 624.

National reinforcements.—In the Wilderness campaign, II., 197, 326; comparative statement of 328.

National troops, numbers of, at Paducah, i., 12; at Belmont, 15; at Fort Henry, 28; at Fort Donelson 36, 43, 56; at Shiloh, 77; under Halleck before Corinth, 101; at battle of Iuka, 111; at battle of Corinth, 116; movement to Holly Springs, 128; Vicksburg campaign, 161, 232; at battle of Port Gibson, 207; at battle of Champion's hill, 269; assaults on Vicksburg, 327; siege of Vicksburg, 333, 358, 359; at battle of Chickamauga, 432; at battle of Chattanooga, 524; entire strength, May, 1864, II., 32; on Rapidan, May, 1864, 93, 94; under Butler at Bermuda Hundred, 247; in Wilderness campaign, 326; at battle of Newmarket, 417; in Hunter's campaign, 418, 421; Sheridan's campaign in Valley, 504; Sherman's Atlanta campaign, 532; movements of September 29, i., 79 movements of October 28, 116; Schofield's army in Tennessee, 187; Thomas's army in Tennessee 188; at battle of Franklin, 212; first Fort Fisher expedition, 222; at battle of Nashville, 251 Sherman's march to sea, 283; second Fort Fisher expedition, 329; Sherman's campaign in Carolinas, 373; under Schofield in North Carolina, 377; under Sheridan, February, 1865, 412; before Richmond, March, 1864, 438; in Appomattox campaign, 442; at Five Forks, 495; under Wilson, March, 1865, 637.

Nelson, General, William, crosses the Tennessee, i., 86.

New Hope church, battle at, II., 337-536.

New York, incendiarism in, III., 170; disloyalty in, 171; Grant's visit to, 194.

North Anna, movements on, II., 225-237.

North, misapprehension of Grant's manoeuvres

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