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Battery Magruder, Yorktown, Va.
, V., 179.Battery Meade, S. C.,
Parrott's guns in, V., 115.Battery number 1, Yorktown, Va.
, VIII., 317.Battery number 4, Va.,
I., 252.Battery Powell, Corinth, Miss.
, II., 154.Battery Reno, S. C.,
V., 112.Battery Reynolds, S. C.,
V., 110, 113.Battery Robinett, Corinth, Miss.
, II., 140, 145, 153.Battery Rodgers, Va.,
V., 85, 102, 181.Battery Rosecrans, S. C.:
V., 110, 115; Parrott's guns in, V., 114.Battery Semmes, Va.,
10-inch Columbiad, V., 133.Battery Seventeen, Petersburg, Va.
, I., 34.Battery Sherman, Miss.,
II., 197.Battery Stevens, S. C.,
V., 111.Battery strong, S. C.,
V., 111.Battery Wagner, S. C.:
V., 110, 111, 112, 115, 117; IX., 51, 175.Battery Williams, Corinth, Miss.
, II., 140, 153.Battery at ‘action of rout,’ IX., 61.
Battine, C.,
quoted, X., 130.Battle, C. A.,
X., 253.Battle Abbey
I., 15.‘Battle above the clouds,’
Nov. 24, 1863, II., 293.Battle field: bloodiest of the war, II., 271; after an engagement, VIII., 176.
Battlegrounds: Field vs. Forest, VIII., 173.
Battle Hymn of the Republic,
J. W. Howe, IX., 17, 20, 122, 154, 155, 156.
‘Battle in the clouds,’
description of, II., 302, 304, 305.Battle losses, Confederate and Union in the Civil War, X., 142.
Battles: of the Civil War, number fought in the States, I., 104; European losses in, X., 140; how they begin, VIII., 168-172.
Bautzen, losses at, X., 140.
Baxley, Mrs. C. V.,
VII., 200.Baxter, De W. C., X., 125.
Baxter, H.,
X., 215.Baxter, J. H.,
VII., 224.Bayard, G. D.,
II., 25, 90, 328; X., 137.Baylor, J. R.,
I., 350; X., 315.Bayont, drill of the Fortieth Mass, Inf., VIII., 183.
Bayne, T. L.,
V., 170.Bayou Cache, Ark.,
I., 368.Bayou de Glaize or Calhoun Station, La.,
III., 320.Bayou de view, Ark.
(see also Bayou Cache, Ark.), I., 368.Bayou Metoe, Ark.,
II., 342.Bayou Techer, La.,
II., 330; VI., 316.Bayou City,, C. S. S.,
II., 330; VI., 316.Beacon Island, N. C.,
VI., 104, 310.Beal, G. L.,
X., 209.Beale, R. L. T.,
X., 317.Bealington, W. Va.
(see also Laurel Hill), I., 348.Beall, J. Y.,
VIII., 298.Beall, W. N. R.,
II., 213; VII., 174; X., 259.Bealton, Va.:
officers' quarters at, VIII., 201; military information bureau headquarters, VIII., 264, 265.Bean Station, Tenn.,
II., 348; III., 340.‘Beanpole and cornstalk bridge,’
V., 272.Beard's Bluff, Ala.,
VI., 233.Beath, R. B.,
X., 296.Beatty, ‘Tinker Dave,’ VIII., 275.
Beatty, J.,
X., 235.Beatty, S.,
X., 89.Beaufort, N. C.:
VI., 182, 246; Provost-Marshal at, IX., 174 seq.Beaufort, S. C.:
I., 35, 42; III., 244; VI., 310; Union hospital at, VII., 231.Beaufort,, C. S. S.:
I., 356; VI., 146, 158, 166 seq., 168.Beauregard, P. G. T.:
I., 34, 36, 90, 95, 138, 140 seq., 143, 146 seq., 148, 153, 158 seq., 160, 162, 195, 198, 202, 204, 206, 210, 218, 222, 236 seq., 362; II., 138, 142, 332; III., 94, 95, 190, 192, 314, 320, 322, 324, 342; IV., 76, 209; V., 61, 64, 116, 204, 211, 236, 243, 261, 262; VI., 124, 272; VII., 31, 241; VIII., 86, 196, 207, 288 seq., 290, 352; IX., 42, 43, 49, 95, 295, 352; X., 4, 241, 244.Beauregard Fort, S. C.,
(see also Fort Beauregard), S. C., I., 354, 357.Beaver, J. A.,
X., 291.Beaver Creek, Mo.,
II., 326.Beaver Creek, Md.,
IV., 88.Beaver dam Creek, Va.,
I., 324.Beaver dam Station, Va.,
III., 320.Beck, F. C. T.,
VI., 113.Beckwith, S. H.,
VIII., 359 seq.Beckwith, telegraph operator, VIII., 364.
Bee, B. E.,
I., 156, 157, 158; X., 100, 147.Beech Grove, Ky.
(see also Mill Springs, Ky.), I., 356.Beech Grove, Tenn.,
II., 340.‘Beechenbrook,’
M. T. Preston, IX., 230.Beecher, H. W.,
III., 331; IX., 335, 338; quoted, X., 45.Beer, W.,
I., 14.Beers, E. L.,
IX., 143.Beers, Mrs. E.,
IX., 142.Belknap, W. W.,
X., 91, 125.Bell, H. H.,
VI., 190, 193, 196.Bell, T. H.,
X., 299.Belle Isle, Va.,
IV., 122; VII., 38, 56, 61, 70, 95, 134, 162; prison, VII., 284.Belle Peoria,, U. S. S.,
II., 163.Belle Plain, Va.:
III., 33; Second N. Y. and First Mass. at, V., 53; upper wharf, erected by engineer corps, V., 236; Benham's Wharf at, V., 236; Confederate prisoners at, VII., 41, 154, 155; U. S. sanitary commission supply wagons at, VII., 327; hospital tents at, VII., 333.Belle Plain Camp, Va.,
Confederate prisoners at, VII., 39 seq.Belle Plain Landing, Va.:
IV., 40 seq., 41, 42; VIII., 47, 55; arrival of wagon trains, VIII., 55.Bellows, H. W.,
VII., 68, 73, 328, 330.Belmont, Mo.,
I., 354; X., 44.Benefit,, U. S. S.,
VI., 228, 229.Benevolent Society of Tenn.
VII., 247.Benham, H. W.,
V., 236, 242, 244.Benham's wharf, Belle Plain, Va.
, V., 236.Benicia, Cal.,
V., 144; arsenal at, V., 154.Benjamin, J. P.,
V., 58; VII., 29, 36, 210; X., 13.Benjamin, M.,
V., 86.Benneau, F. W.,
VII., 133.Bennett, A. G.,
III., 246.Bennett, F. M.,
VI., 306.Bennett, J. G.,
yacht of, VI., 181.Bennett House, Durham Station, N. C.
, III., 247.Bennett's Mills, Mo.,
I., 350.Benning, H. L.,
X., 127.Benning's bridge, Md.,
V., 96.Benson, B.,
VII., 79, 151; escape of, from Elmira prison, VII., 147 seq.; X., 2.Benton, S.,
X., 155.Benton, W. P.,
X., 203.Benton,, U. S. S.,
I., 221, 222, 362; 366; VI., 150, 214, 220, 222, 316.Bentonville, Ark.,
I., 358.Bentonville, N. C.,
III., 344.Berdan, H.,
X., 223.Berlin, Md.:
pontoon bridge at, II., 56; view of Potomac from, II., 266; bridge at, IV., 77 seq.Bermuda Hundred, Va.:
I., 49, 119; III., 84, 94, 95, 188, 190, 320, 322, 330, 338; V., 243, 315; VI., 130, 315; ‘Crow's Nest’ signal tower at, VIII., 331; negro teamsters at, IX., 181.Berry, H. G.,
IX., 59, 79; X., 131.Berryville, Va.,
III., 330; IV., 194.Berryville Pike, Va.,
III., 328.Bertenatti, M.,
Italian Minister, VI., 25.Bertholet, surgeon, VII., 318.
Berwick Bay, La.,
VI., 318.Bethel Church, Va.,
III., 67.Bethesda Church, Va.,
III., 80, 84; IV., 210, 211.Beverly, W. Va.,
III., 342.Beverly Ford, Va.:
II., 336; IV., 32, 84, 112, 224, 226.Beverly House, Va.,
III., 59; IV., 207.Beville, J. B.,
VII., 123.Bevil's bridge, Va.,
V., 264, 266.Bibb, J. B.,
IX., 291.Bickford, W. R.,
I., 19.Bidwell, D. D.,
III., 338; X., 139.Big Barren River: Buell's troops crossing, I., 211.
Big Bayou, Fla.,
I., 91.Big Beaver Creek, Mo.,
II., 326.Big Bethel, Va.,
I., 262, 348; VIII., 104.Big Black River, Miss.,
II., 189, 191, 220, 334, 340.Big Creek Gap, Tenn.,
I., 358.Big Hill, Madison Co., Ky.
, II., 322.Big River bridge, Mo.,
I., 352.Big Sandy River, Ky.,
I., 180.Big Shanty, Ga.,
IV., 206.Big Tybee Island, Ga.,
I., 361; VI., 236.Bigelow, J.,
II., 106, 250; VI., 25, 291.Bigelow, J., Jr.
II., 121.J. R. Lowell, IX., 23, 256.
Biles, E. R.,
VIII., 319.Billings, J. S.,
VII., 223.Billups, J.,
VII., 123.‘Billy,’
horse of G. H. Thomas, IV., 314.Biloxi, Miss.,
VI., 312.Bird's Point, Mo.
(see also Charleston, Mo.), I., 177, 350.Birdsong Ferry, Miss.,
II., 340.Birge, H. W.,
X., 197.Birney, D. B.:
II., 51, 237; III., 76, 90, 208, 321; X., 187, 212, 290.Birney, W.,
X., 219.Bisland, La.,
II., 332.‘Bivouac in McClellan's Army,’
IX., 135.‘Bivouac on a mountain side,’
Walt Whitman, IX., 132.Bixley, G. H., II., 193.
Black, J.,
VII., 125.Black, J. C.,
X., 201, 296.Black, W.:
youngest soldier wounded, IX., 67.Black, Judge
Viii., 294.‘Black Burns,’
horse of G. B. McClellan, IV., 304.Black Hawk War of 1832, VII., 347; IX., 93.
‘Black horse Cavalry,’
IV., 30, 83.Blackburn's Ford, Va.:
I., 151, 153, 163, 285, 348; Federal encampment at, II., 21, 324.Blackhawk,, U. S. S.,
VI., 37, 147, 225, 322.Blackie, G. S.,
VII., 242.Blackmar, A. E.,
IX., 343.Blackmar, W. W.,
X., 296.Blackville, S. C.,
III., 342.Blackwater, Mo.
(see also Milford, Mo., and Shawnee Mound, Mo.), I., 354.Blackwater River, Va.,
VI., 316.Blackwood, G.,
VIII., 115.Blackwood, Dr.
VII., 216.Blackwood's magazine,
I., 90.Blacque Bey
X., 4.Blair, C. W.,
III., 117.Blair, F. P., Jr.
: I., 353 seq.; II., 185; III., 118, 132, 345; VIII., 102; X., 224.Blair, J.,
I., 14.Blair, M.,
X., 12.Blair's Landing, La.,
II., 352.Blair's plantation, La.,
VI., 320.Blaine, J. G.,
IX., 292.Blake, G. A. H.,
IV., 47.Blake, H. C.,
VI., 316.Blake's Mill, Ga.,
IV., 332.Blakely guns
V., 56, 120.Blanchard, A. G.,
X., 271.Bledsoe's battery, Confederate, I., 350, 352, 356, 358.
Blemiel, Father
Vii., 272.Blenheim, losses at, X., 140.
Blenker, L.,
I., 311; V., 292.Blennerhasset Island, O., II., 340.
Block houses: on Nashville & Chattanooga R. R., IV., 149; garrisoned against Wheeler's cavalry, IV., 151.
Blockade: I., 89; the early inadequacy of, VI., 14; Confederate hope of raising, VI., 15; beginning at Pensacola, VI., 19; steam vessels available for, VI., 22; effectiveness of, in 1861-2, VI., 26; foreign vessels, VI., 33; final completeness of, VI., 34; completed by fall of Fort Fisher, VI., 39; value of vessels captured or destroyed by, VI., 40; viewed from dramatic standpoint, VI., 40; first Confederate vessel to run, VI., 75; in the Potomac, VI., 92, 101; strengthened by capture of Fort Royal, VI., 104, 110 seq.; squadron commanders of, VI., 120, 125, 126, 127, 186, 195, 260; Confederate attempts to raise, VI., 272, 273; VIII., 54; responsible for Confederacy's failure, VIII., 136; running, IX., 25, 49.
Blockade runners: I., 89; swiftness of, VI., 21 seq.; effort of, to reach Wilmington, N. C., VI., 39; profits of, VI., 106, 107; pay of officers anti crew on, VI., 107; commanded by Confederate naval officers, VI., 108; first effective step against, VI., 115; number of captured, VI., 122; of Charleston, S. C., VI., 238; channel marks of, VI., 255; chases of, VI., 294; last of the, VI., 291.
‘Bloodiest day of the Civil War,’
II., 63.‘Bloody angle.’
Spotsylvania, Va.: II., 247, 260; Federal victory at, May 12, 1864, III., 57; Confederate entrenchments near, III., 57, 62, 66, 68; V., 27.‘Bloody Lane,’
Antietam, Md., II., 69, 72.Bloomery Gap., Va.,
I., 356.Bloomfield, Va.,
II., 326.Blounts Farm, Ala.,
II., 332.Blountsville, Ala.,
VII., 145.Blountsville, Tenn.,
II., 344.Blue adopted by the Federals
Viii., 95.‘Blue and the gray,’
F. M. Finch, IX., 138, 273.‘Blue Coats are over the border,’
A. E. Blackmar, IX., 343.Blue Mills, Mo.,
I., 350, 352.Blue Ridge, Va.,
II., 42.Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.,
II., 26, 57, 106.Blue Springs, Tenn.,
II., 344.Blum, R. A.,
VIII., 167.Blunt, J. G.,
III., 338; X., 175, 184.Boag, T. G.,
VII., 4.Bobot, A.,
VII., 139.Bodiso, M.,
Sec. Russian Legation, VI., 25.Boers, I.,
84.Boggs, C. S.,
VI., 198.Boggs, W. R.,
X., 265.Bohlen, H.,
II., 322; X., 135.Boland, Maj.
C. S. A., VII., 123.Bolivar, Tenn.,
II., 148, 322.Bolivar, Va.,
III., 326.Bolivar Heights, Va.,
I., 352; II., 60, 325.Bolton, Miss.,
II., 340.Bolton depot, Miss.,
II., 340.Bomb-proofs: entrenchments, VIII., 253; near Atlanta, Ga., VIII., 253; before Petersburg, Va., VIII., 253.
Bond, F. S.,
X., 19.Bonham, M. L.,
X., 283.Bonita,
ship, VI., 122.Booker, T.,
IV., 166.Booneville, Mo.,
I., 352, 353.Booneville, Miss.,
I., 364, 367, 368.Boonsboro, Ark.,
II., 326.Boonsboro, Md.,
I., 53; II., 340; IV., 88.Booth, J. W.:
VII., 203, 207; flight, capture and death of, VII., 205; VIII., 26, 363, 366; IX., 128, 338.Borodino, losses at, X., 140.
Boston, R.,
IV., 86, 88.Boston Mountains, Ark.,
II., 326.Bottom's bridge, Va.:
I., 286, 294; IV., 126.Botts, J. M.:
opposition of, to secession, VII., 195; mansion of, in Culpeper Co., Va., VII., 195; and his family, VII., 197.Bounty-jumping, VIII., 280, 282.
