Buckhannon, action at, 84
Buckingham, Gov. Wm. A., 521
Buckner, Gen. S. B., at Fort
Donelson, 102

Buell, Gen. Don Carlos, at Shi-
loh, 136, et seq.; fights Bragg
at Perryville, 231
Buffington's Ford, engagement
at, 321, 322

Buford, Gen. John, given com-
mand in Virginia, 175; at Brandy
Station, 250; at Gettysburg,
254, et seq.

Bull Run, first battle of, 59, et
seq.; second, 180, et seq.
Bummers, Sherman's, 497
Burke, Edmund, quoted, 296
Burns, Anthony, rendition, 19
Burns, John, at Gettysburg, 268
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose E., at

Bull Run, 60; at South Moun-
tain, 190; at the Antietam,
196; appointed to command
the Army of the Potomac, 221;
his career, 221; his Fredericks-
burg campaign, 222, et seq.; at
Knoxville, 331, 333; in the
overland campaign,367, et seq.;
at crater, 449; relieved, 449
Butler, Gen. Benjamin F., takes

a regiment to Washington, 54;
in Maryland, 81; in Hatteras
expedition, 92; at New Or-
leans, 114, et seq.; refuses to
return slaves, 207; proclaimed
an outlaw, 239; commanding
Army of the James, 443, et seq.
Butterfield, Gen. Daniel, wound-
ed, 266

Byrnes, Col., killed, 396

Calcium lights employed, 315
Caldwell, Lieut. C. H. B., at New
Orleans, 119

Calhoun, John C., quoted, 10;
threatens secession, 24; teaches
State sovereignty, 34
California, contribution to the
Sanitary Commission, 358
Cameron, Col. James, killed, 68
Cameron, Simon, resigns sec-
retaryship of war, 150; author-
izes Sanitary Commission, 353

537

Campbell, John A., in the Hamp-
ton Roads conference, 510
Canals, at Island No. 10, 134; at
Vicksburg, 278, 279

Carpenter, Daniel, in the New
York riots, 300, 301

Carr, Col. Eugene A., at Pea
Ridge, 108

Carrick's Ford, action at, 84
Carroll, Gen. Samuel S., at Get-
tysburg, 263; wounded, 375,
388; promoted, 388
Carter, L., murdered, 336
Carthage, Mo., action at, 77
Casey, Gen. Silas, at Fair Oaks,
156

Cass, Gen. Lewis, comes out for
the Union, 51

Causes of the war, I
Cavalry service, turning-point in,
250

Cavander, M., murdered, 336
Cedar Creek, battle of, 466
Cedar Mountain, battle of, 176
Census of 1840 tampered with,

12

Chalmers, Gen., at Fort Pillow,
341
Chamberlain, Gen. Joshua L., at
Gettysburg, 262

Chambersburg, Pa., reached by
Confederate forces in 1863,
252; burned, 454

Champion's Hill, battle of, 285
Chancellorsville, battle of. 243
Chantilly, battle of, 183
Charles City Cross Roads, battle
of, 167

Charleston, S. C., siege of, 307-
317; destruction of the harbor,
307; bombarded, 317; occu-
pied by National forces, 508
Chase, Salmon P., his manage-
ment of the finances, 481, et
seq.

Chatfield, Col., killed, 314
Chattanooga, besieged by Bragg,

329; relieved by Grant, 330
Cheraw, captures at, 508
Cherokee Indians, atrocities in
North Carolina, 339
Chickamauga, battle of, 324-329
Christian Commission, 358-360

Christy, David, his book, 24
Churches divided on slavery, 14
Churchill, Gen., at Arkansas Post,
278

Civilians, services of, 521
Clark, Col. J. S., counts Jackson's
forces, 178

Clarke, Gen., killed, 272
Clay, Henry, proposes the Mis-
souri compromise, 16
Clouds, battle above the, 331
Cobb, Howell, plots secession,
while in the Cabinet, 38
Coburn, Col., defeated, 319
Cochrane, Gen. John, nominated
for vice-president, 469
Coffee-wagon, Dunton's, 360
Cogswell, Col. L. W., quoted, 385
Cold Harbor, first battle of, 165;
second battle of, 394-396
Colored troops, enlistment of,
230-238; Confederate procla-
mation concerning, 239; Lin-
coln's retaliatory proclamation,
241

Columbia, Ky., captured by Mor-

Colyer, Vincent, originates the
Christian Commission, 359
Comparison with actions in pre-

vious wars, 321
Concentration, the natural result
of civilization, 32
Concord, N. H., pro-slavery mob
in, 7; riot in, 339
Confederacy, formation of the,
36; Government, removed to
Richmond, 58

Confiscation of slaves, 208
Congress, the, destroyed, 129
Conscription, Confederate, 230
Constitution, U. S., opposed, 34
Contraband, the term, 208
Cooper, Capt., commanding bat-
tery, 168
Copperheads, 51

Corcoran, Col. Michael, captured,
68

Corinth, Miss., importance of,
135; siege and capture of, 143;
battle of, 233

Corse, Gen. John M., defends
Allatoona, 491

Cost of the war, 487
Cotton-gin, invention of, 3
Cotton is king, 24

Counting troops, the two methods
of, 159, 368

Courier, Louisville, quoted, 70
Cox, Rev. Henry, quoted, 70
Cox, Samuel S., quoted, 240
Crampton's Gap, 190

Crater, by mine explosion, 449.
Craven, Capt. T. A. M., in battle
of Mobile Bay, 440, 442
Crawford, Gen. Samuel W., at
Spottsylvania, 389

Crittenden, Gen. George B., at
Mill Springs, 98

Crittenden, Gen. Thomas L., at
Chickamauga, 325, et seq.
Crocker, Gen. Marcellus M., in
Vicksburg campaign, 283
Crook, Gen. George, defeated by
Early, 454; at Fisher's Hill,
464; at Cedar Creek, 466
Cross, Col. Edward E., killed, 262
Cruisers, Confederate, 400, et seq.
Cumberland, destruction of the,
128

Curtis, Gen. Samuel R., at Pea
Ridge, 107

Cushing, Lieut. Alonzo H., at
Gettysburg, 269

Cushing, Lieut. Wm. B., destroys
the Albemarle, 442

Custer, Gen. George A., at
Hawes's Shop, 392; narrow
escape of his division, 459;
defeats Early at Waynesboro,
511; his captures at Sailor's
Creek, 518

Dahlgren, Admiral John A.,
bombards Fort Wagner, 312
Dam in Red River, Bailey's, 417
Daniel, Gen., killed, 388

Davis, Capt. Charles H., at Vicks-
burg, 271

Davis, Col., at Harper's Ferry,
189

Davis, Col. B. F., killed, 250
Davis, Jefferson, on the slave-

trade, 21; chosen President of

the Confederacy, 36; at Bull
Run, 67; at Murfreesboro, 235;
proclaims Gen. Butler an out-
law, 239; at odds with Gen.
Johnston and Gov. Brown, 489;
leaves Richmond, 515; captur-
ed, 523; bailed, 523
Davis, Gen. Jefferson C., at Pea

Ridge, 108; at Atlanta, 434
Day's Gap, engagement at, 320
Dearing, Gen. James, mentioned,
532

Death-angle, the, 381-385
Debts, due from Southern men
to Northern, 30

Deep Bottom, fighting at, 448,450
Democratic party, becomes the
pro-slavery party, 21; divided
by the slavery question, 35
Demosthenes quoted, 185
Dennison, Gov. William, 521
Despotism in America, 8
Dew, Thomas R., his pamphlet
on slavery, II

Dickinson, Daniel S., proposed
for Vice-president, 471
Dix, Dorothea L., hospital servi-
ces, 361

Dix, Gen. John A., his patriotic
order, 50

Dog Spring, Mo., action at, 78
Doles, Gen. George P., killed, 396
Donaldsonville destroyed, 275
Doubleday, Gen. Abner, at Fred-
ericksburg, 227; at Gettys-
burg, 256, et seq. ; quoted, 263;
wounded, 266

Douglas, Rev. Mr., murdered, 336
Douglas, Stephen A., on slavery,

21; advocates popular sover-
eignty, 22; nominated for
President, 35; supports Lin-
coln's administration, 51
Douglass, Frederick, edits the
North Star, 6
Draft riots, 290-306
Draytons, the two, 95
Dred Scott, case of, 20

Duncan, Gen. Johnson K., com-
mands the defences of New
Orleans, 113

Dunton, Jacob, invents a coffee-
wagon, 360

539

Du Pont, Flag-officer S. F., in
Port Royal expedition, 94; at-
tacks Charleston, 309

Early, Gen. Jubal A., sent to the
Shenandoah valley, 452; threat-
ens Washington, 453; burns
Chambersburg, 454; in the
Shenandoah campaign, 458-
467; at Waynesboro, 511.
Election, presidential, 468 et seq.
Ellis, John W., action as Gover-
nor of North Carolina, 82
Ellsworth, Ephraim E., teaches
zouave drill, 52; recruits a reg-
iment, 55; killed, 56

Ely, Alfred, at Bull Run, 61, 68
Emancipation, 200, et seq.
English sentiment in regard to
the war, 87

Ericsson, John, builds the Moni-
tor, 130

Everett, Edward, on slavery, II
Ewell, Gen. Richard S., wound-
ed, 179; in Gettysburg cam-
paign, 250, et seq.; defeats
Milroy at Winchester, 251; in
the overland campaign, 368, et
seq.; quoted, 399; captured
with his corps, 518

Fair Oaks, battle of, 156
Farragut, Admiral David G., his
loyalty, 46; captures New
Orleans, 114, et seq.; at Vicks-
burg, 271; destroys Donald-
sonville, 275; runs by the bat-
teries at Port Hudson, 281; his
battle in Mobile Bay, 438, et seq.
Fifty-four-forty or fight, 17
Fillmore, Millard, signs the com-
promise measures, 18

Finances, the national, 481-487
Finley, Clement A., opposes the
Sanitary Commission, 353
Finnegan, Gen., wounded, 396
Fisher's Hill, engagement at, 463
Fishing Creek (or Mill Springs),
battle of, 98

Fisk, Clinton B., service in Mis-
souri, 77

Five Forks, battle of, 514

Flag, the American, Gen. Dix's

order concerning, 50; dancing

on, 235

Fleetwood, battle of, 250
Florida secedes, 36

Florida, the, captured, 403
Floyd, John B., plots secession,
while in the Cabinet, 38; at
Fort Donelson, 103
Foote, Flag-officer A. H., at Fort

Henry, 101; at Island No. 10, 134
Forrest, Gen. N. B., at Fort Don-
elson, 105; at Holly Springs,
273; attacks Dover, 319; de-
feated by Streight, 320; cap-
tures Fort Pillow, 340, et seq.;
defeats Smith, 415
Fort de Russey, captured, 416
Fort Donelson, investment and
capture of, 102, et seq.
Fort Fisher, capture of, 508
Fort Henry, capture of, 101
Fort Hindman, capture of, 277
Fortifications, construction of, 427
Fort McAllister, captured, 498
Fort Pillow, massacre at, 340
Fort Sumter, investment and cap-
ture of, 38-40
Fort Wagner, assaulted, 313;
evacuated, 315
Forty thieves, the, 338
Foster, Gen. John G., at Deep
Bottom, 448; at Savannah, 504
Foster, Gen. Robert S., captures
Fort Gregg, 515
Fractional currency, 486
Franklin, battle of, 500
Franklin, Gen. Wm. B., in the
Peninsula campaign, 154;
the second Bull Run, 182; at
South Mountain, 190; at the
Antietam, 196; in the Freder-
icksburg campaign, 223, et seq.
Frazier's Farm, battle of, 168
Fredericksburg, battle of, 223,
et seq.
Frémont, John C., candidate for
President, 23; in command in
Missouri, 107; declines to serve
under Pope, 173; attempts to
emancipate slaves in Missouri,
209; nominated for president,
469; withdraws, 474
French, Gen. William H., at

at

Fredericksburg, 227; at Har-
per's Ferry, 252

Fry, Col. Speed S.,at Mill Springs,
98
Fugitive-slave advertisements, 7

Gaines's Mills, battle of, 164
Gamble, Hamilton R., provisional
governor of Missouri, 77
Garfield, Gen. James A., defeats
Marshall at Paintville, 97; at
Chickamauga, 328

Garland, Gen. Samuel, killed, 190
Garnett, Gen. R. B., killed, 267
Garrison, William Lloyd, estab-

lishes the Liberator, 6

Gay, Sydney Howard, edits the
Anti-slavery Standard, 6
Geary, Gen. John W., occupies
Savannah, 499

Georgia secedes, 36; hopes of
her secession from the Confed-
eracy, 489

Gerdes, Lieut. F. H., service at
New Orleans, 117

Getty, Gen. George W., wounded,
375

Gettysburg campaign, 248, et seq.
Gibbon, Gen. John, at South

Mountain, 190; at Fredericks-
burg, 227; wounded, 266; at
Reams Station, 450

Gilchrist, of Alabama, quoted, 43
Gillmore, Gen. Quincy A., be-

sieges Charleston, 312, et seq.
Gilmore, James R., his peace mis.
sion, 468

Gladden, Gen. A. H., killed, 139
Glazier, Capt. W., quoted, 317
Glendale, battle of, 168
Goodwin, Gen., killed, 462
Gold quotations, 486
Golden Circle, the, 24
Goodyear, W., quoted, 479
Gordon, Gen. John B., at Peters-
burg, 512

Gosport navy-yard burned, 54
Govan's brigade captured, 437
Governors, war, 521
Granger, Gen. Gordon, defeats

Van Dorn, 319; at Chickamau-
ga, 328; at Mobile, 439
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., quoted,

67; in Fort Donelson campaign, |
99, et seq.; Shiloh, 135, et seq.;
his judgment on the Fitz-John
Porter dispute, 184; placed in
command of the department of
the Mississippi, 272; makes the
Vicksburg campaign, 272-289;
in command at Chattanooga,
329; aids the Christian Com-
mission, 360; his overland cam-
paign, 362, et seq.; made lieu-
tenant-general, 365; his cam-
paign against Petersburg, 443,
et seq.; sends Sheridan to the
Shenandoah Valley, 456; his
judgment on Cold Harbor, 396;
final assaults on Petersburg,
512-515; pursuit of Lee, 516-
518; receives his surrender, 519
Greble, Lieut. John T., killed, 56
Greeley, Horace, correspondence

with President Lincoln, 212;
in the Niagara Falls conference,
469; signs Mr. Davis's bail-
bond, 523

Greene, Lieut. Samuel D., com-
mands the Monitor, 131
Gregg, Gen. David M., at Brandy
Station, 250; at Hawes's Shop,
392

Grierson, Col. Benjamin H., his
raid in Mississippi, 282
Griffin, Capt. Charles, at Bull
Run, 66

Groveton, battle of, 179
Guerillas, in Missouri, 106
Gunboats on western rivers, 100

541

Hamlin, Hannibal, vice-president,

471

Hampton, Col., killed, 250
Hampton, Gen. Wade, wounded,
267; sent to assist Wheeler, 506
Hampton Roads Conference, the,
510, 511

Hancock, Gen. Winfield S., in the
Peninsula campaign, 154, et
seq.; at Fredericksburg, 227;
at Gettysburg, 259, et seq.,
wounded, 266; in overland
campaign, 367, et seq.; meeting
with Gen. Steuart, 383; before
Petersburg, 444, et seq.; attacks
at Deep Bottom, 450
Hardee, Gen. William J., at Shi-
loh, 135; evacuates Savannah,
498, 499; evacuates Charles-
ton, 508; at Averysboro, 509
Harding, Col. A. C., defends
Dover, 319

Harker, Gen. Charles G., killed,
428

Harney, Gen. William S., in Mis-
souri, 75

Harper's Ferry, arsenal burned,
54; Johnston and Patterson
successively occupy, 59; cap-
tured by Jackson, 188
Harris, Elisha, connection with
the Sanitary Commission, 352;
invents a hospital car, 356
Harris, Isham G., action as Gov-
ernor of Tennessee, 82
Harsen, Dr., connection with the

Sanitary Commission, 352
Hatch, Gen. J. P., in Virginia, 175
Hatteras expedition, the, 92
Hatteras, the, sunk, 403
Hawes's Shop, action at, 392
Hayne, Robert Y., quoted, 10
Hayes, Col. Rutherford
wounded, 191

B..

Hays, Gen. Alexander, at the An-
tietam, 198; killed, 375

Hazen, Gen. William B., captures
Fort McAllister, 498

Hazlett, Lieut. Charles E., killed,
261
Heintzelman, Gen. S. P., at Bull
Run, 60; in Peninsula cam-
paign, 150, et seq.