Breckinridge, J. C., resigns his senatorship, 168. Breese, Captain, his attack on the sea front of Fort Fisher, 697.
Brier Forks, Mo., battle near, 106.
Bristow Station, battle of, 467.
Brough, John, elected governor of Ohio, 658.
Brown, Col. Harney, secret expedition dispatched
Buzzard Roost, Johnston's position st, turned by Sherman, 569.
Cabell, Gen., repulse of, at Fayetteville, Ark., 606; raid of, in Southwestern Missouri, 607. Cabinet, Confederate, members of the, 48, 114.
under command of, 67; arrival of, at Fort Pick-Cabinet, Federal, changes in the, 51.
ens with re-enforcements, 72; operations of, at Fort Pickens, 208.
Brown, Gov., forts in Georgia seized by, 40. Brown, John, raid of, at Harper's Ferry, 33; exe- cution of, 34.
Brownlow, Rev. W. G., persecuted for loyalty, 129. Brown's Gap, strong position of Early at 648. Brownsville, occupation of, by the troops of Gen. Dana, 598.
Buchanan, Capt. Franklin, biographical sketch of, 246; wounded and captured in the ram Tennes- see, 613.
Buchanan, President, his message of Dec., 1860, 50; message of, Jan., 1861, 52.
Buckner, Gen. S. B., proclamation issued by, from Bowling Green, 167; his surrender of Fort Don- elson to Gen. Grant, 177.
Buell, Gen. Don Carlos, biographical sketch of 163; succeeds Anderson and Sherman in com- mand of the Department of the Cumberland, 168; advance of, on Nashville, 178; opportune arrival of his troops at Pittsburg Landing, 310; losses of, at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, 811; oper- ations of, in Kentucky, 399-408; superseded by Gen. Thomas, 404; reinstated in his command, 405; large force under, 405; superseded by Gen. Rosecrans, 412.
Bull Kun, battle of 100; effects of the defeat at, 104; beneficial effect on the North of the battle of, 113; paralyzing influence of the defeat at, 189; second battle of, 330; losses at the second battle of, 831.
Bunker Hill, Va., battle near, 109. Burbridge, Gen., letter of Sherinan to, in relation to the treatment of guerrillas, 578; routs Mor- gan at Cynthiana, 780; attempt of, to capture Saltville, 781.
Burnside, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E., biographical sketch of, 206; operations of, on the coast of North Carolina, 206, 838-842; return of, to For- tress Monroe, 343; important services of at the battle of Antietam, 884; McClellan superseded by, in command of the Army of the Potomac, 390; account of his operations against Freder- icksburg, 31-398; inquiry into the causes of his failure at Fredericksburg, 355; singular tele- gram of the President to, 897; plans of, made known to the enemy, 898; superseded by Gen. Hooker, 398; capture of Knoxville by, 484; re- lieved from the command of the department of the Ohio, 501.
Butler, Gen. Benjamin Franklin, biographical sketch of, 867; placed in command of the Anna- polis d partment, $2; occupies Relay House, 82; maintains the Federal authority in Balti- more, 83; head-quarters of, at Fortress Monroe, 91, 108; surrender of Fort Hatteras to a force under, 146; account of his Ship Island Expedi- tion, 202-206; attempts to raise troops in Massa- chusetts without State authority, 2014; expedi- tion of, against New Orleans, 863-367; his ocen- pation of New Orleans, 367; administration of, in New Orleans, 867; superseded by Gen. Banks, 485; co-operative movement of, up the James, 480; operations of, on the James, 529-583; dis- patch of, from City Point, 530; attacked by Beauregard within his lines, 582; consolidation of his army with that of Grant, 542; expedition of, against Wilmington, 687-690; relieved of the command of the Army of the James, 696; letter of, to Admiral Porter, in relation to Fort Fisher, 688.
Cairo, apprehended Confederate
against, 170; fleet of gunboats prepared at, un- der the direction of Flag-officer Foote, 173 Caleb Cushing, revenue cutter, captured in Port- land harbor, 875.
Calhoun, a stong advocate of nullification, 24; error of President Jackson in relation to, 25, Calhoun, Mayor James M., surrenders Atlanta to Gen. Ward, 591; letter of, to Gen. Sherman, in re- lation to the depopulation of Atlanta, 629; Gen. Sherman's reply to, 629.
Calhoun, Sherman's forces at, 572.
Camden, Ark., occupation of, by Gen. Steele, 608. Caneron, Col., killed at Bull Run, 103. Cameron, Secretary, report of to the Thirty. seventh Congress, 122; visit of, to Missouri, to inquire int Fremont's management, 139; resig- nation of, 215.
Camp Beach Grove, fortified by Zollicoffer, 171 Campbell, John A., Mr. Seward accused of dupli- city by, 62.
Campbell Station, battle of, 493. Camp Dick Robinson, Ky, complained of as an in- fringement of Kentucky neutrality, 162. Camp Jackson, surrender of Gen. Frost at, to Capt. Lyon, 104.
Camp Wild Cat, battle near, between the troops of Zollicoffer and Schoff, 167. Canal, Dutch Gap, proposed by Gen. Butler, 554 Canal cut across the peninsula opposite Island No Ten, 308.
Canal from the Mississippi to Lake Providence,
Canal on the peninsula, opposite Vicksburg, re opened, 420; abandoned, 421.
Cannon, improvements in the manufacture of 225; large number of, captured at Vicksburg, 432.
Cape Fear River, forts on, abandoned by the rebels,
Cape Girardeau, defence of, by Gen. McNiel, against Marmaduke, 606.
Capital, national, consumption of 358. Carlile, Mr. J. S. admitted to the Senate from West Virginia, 124.
Carrollton, occupation of, by Gen. Phelps, 368 Casey, Gen., Division of, routed at the battle of Seven Pines, 261.
Cass, Hon. Lewis, resignation of, 51. Cattle, twenty-five hundred head of, carried off by Wade Hampton, 559.
Cavalry, want of, in McClellan's army, 856. Cedar Creek, battle of, 650-654; Sheridan turna defeat into victory at, 658.
Cedar Mountain, battle of, 825, Centreville, advance of Gen. Tyler to 99; descrip tion of the Confederate works at, 231; army of Gen. Pope at, 334.
Certificates, issue of, 251.
Chambersburg, proclamation issued from, by Gen. R. E. Lee, 455; fired by rebel cavalry under Me- Causland, 5538.
Champion's Hill, battle of, 427. Chancellorsville, battle of, 446-443. Chandler, Col. D. T., testimony of, as to Gen. Win- der's infamous treatment of Union prisoners,
Change of base, McClellan's, 255, Chantilly, battle of, 385. Charleston, South Carolina, convention adjourned to, 85; notice of the forts at, 64; military prepa rations made in, 65; Beauregard placed in com-
mand at, 67; siege of, 845-347, 501-508; shelled by Gen. Gillmore, 508; movement of Gen. Gill- more against, 702; surrender of, 703. Charleston harbor, stone fleet sunk at the entrance of, 202.
Charlestown, Mo., battle of, 152.
Charlestown, Va., capture of, by Gen. Imboden,
Chase, Secretary, measures taken by, to obtain loans,
Chattahoochee River, Sherman's army at the, 578; Johnston compelled by Sherman to retire from the, 580.
Chattanooga, Gen. Kirby Smith at, with 20,000 men, 318; Bragg driven back upon, by Long- street, 482; retreat of Bragg from, 484; Rose- crans at, after Chickamauga 491; situation of Rosecrans at, 494; arrival of large re-enforce- ments at, 496.
Cheatham, B. F., appointed brigadier-general in the Confederate service, 118.
Cheat Mountain Pass, operations near, 182. Cheat River, defeat of General Garnett at, 112. Cherokee Station, General Osterhaus repulses Lee and Loring near, 497.
Chesapeake, steatner, seizure of, by Confederate passen.ers, 744.
Chicago, Democratic Convention of 1864 held at, 665.
Chickahominy, advance of the Army of the Poto- mac to the, 258; bridges over the, 260; Grant's battles on the, 534-537.
Commissioners, Confederate, sent to Europe, 161. 216; reply of Earl Russell to, 220. Commissioners, Southern, reply of Mr. Seward to, 61; final letter of, to Mr. Seward, 62. Commission of the Virginia Convention, reply of Mr. Lincoln to, 62.
Commissions, Christian and Sanitary, beneficent offices of, 742.
Compromise, measures of, proposed by Clay, in relation to the tariff, 25.
Compromise, Missouri, history of the, 22; repeal of, 28.
Confiscation act, provisions of, 125; signed by the President, 358.
Confiscation in the North of property belonging to rebels, 134.
Congress, Confederate, early proceedings of, 88, 86; assembled in Richmond, July, 1861, 118; how constituted, 114; action of, in relation to Missouri, 116. the Thirty-sixth Federal, action of, 57. the Thirty seventh Federal, how con- stituted, 121; acts passed by, 125; sec- ond session of, 354; results of the pro- ceedings of, 862.
frigate, capture of, by the Merrimac, 247.
Conscription, Confederate, after the battle of
law, Mr. Wilson's, 362; unpopular- ity of, 450; amended by Congress, 662.
Chickamauga, battle of, 486-491; killed and Constitution, Federal, history of the formation of
wounded at, 489; remarks on the campaign ter- minating with the battle of, 491.
Christian Commission, beneficent offices of, 742. Christmas gift, Sherman's, 685.
Cincinnati, alarm occasioned in, by the approach of Gen. Bragg, 408; martial law proclaimed in, by Gen. Wallace, 403; proclamation of the may- or of, 404; liquor stores closed in, 404. Circular addressed to foreign ministers by Mr. Seward, 217.
Circular addressed by Mr. Seward to the governors of States, 222.
Circular addressed by Memminger to officers of Confederate States, 119.
Circular of Gen. Sherman in relation to newspaper reporters and the transmission of mails, 572. Citizens, Northern, banished from Southern States, 117, 129.
City Point, explosion of an ordnance boat at, 554. Clay, Clement C., and others, letter of Horace
Greeley to, 670; final reply of, to Mr. Greeley, 671. Clay, Henry, author of the Missouri compromise,
22; compromise measures proposed by, in rela- tion to the tariff, 25.
Cobb, Howell, resigns his position as secretary of the treasury, 51; elected chairman of the South- ern Convention, 46.
Coercion, President Adams's measures for, in Georgia, 23; President Jackson's measures for, in South Carolina, 25,
Coggin's Point, 2,500 cattle carried off from, by Wade Hampton, 559.
Coin, interest on the national debt and customs duties to be paid in, 348.
Cold Harbor, battles at, 534, 535.
Collins, Commander, captures the Florida in the Bay of San Salvador, 627.
Columbia, South Carolina Convention adjourned from, an account of small-pox, 35; surrender of, to Gen. Howard, 711 burning of, 711. Columbiad gun, description of the, 226. Columbus, Ky., occupation of, by Gen. Polk, 163; fortification of, by the Confederates, 170; occu- pation of, by Federal troops, 178. Columbus, Ga., capture of, by Gen. Wilson, 788. Commerce, American, how affected by the dep- redations of Southern cruisers, 876.
the, 17; binding on the whole people, 18; amendments to, sug- gested by the Hartford Conven- tion, 21; amendments to, proposed by Mr. Crittenden, 54; proposed amendment to the, 58; Webster on the, 25; powers conferred by, upon the Government, 855. Confederate, 48; adopted by the Virginia Convention, 48; adopted by the North Carolina Conven- tion, 45.
adopted by the Montgomery Con- vention, 47.
Convention of 1787 to amend the Articles of Con-
Mississippi, action of, 37; secession ordinance of, 88.
Missouri, action of, 116. Montgomery, delegates to the, 47. of Paris of 1856, in relation to priva- teering, 115,
Republican, of 1864, platform of, 663. South Carolina, adjourned from Co- lumbia to Charleston, 85; ordinance of secession of, 35; reasons of, for secession, 36; resolutions adopted by, 36.
of States invited by the Virginia leg- islature, 56.
Texas, ordinance of secession passed by, 41.
Virginia, reply of Mr. Lincoln to the commissioners of, 62; secession ordi- nance passed by the, 42; Confeder- ate constitution adopted by, 43. Washington, 46.
Western Virginia, loyal action of, 88. Corcoran, Col., made prisoner at Bull Run, 103. Corinth, concentration of Confederate troops at, under Gen. A. S. Johnston, 306; operations of
Gen. Halleck against, 818-817; dispatches of Halleck in relation to capture of, 313-316; evac- uation of, by the forces of Beauregard, 315; siege of, by Price, Van Dorn, and Lovell, 410, Corse, Gen., his defence of Allatoona Pass, 632. Cost of construction of Federal forts in the Slave States, $5.
Cotton, export of, prohibited by the Confederate Congress, 86, great destruction of, in the South- west, 318; and at New Orleans, 365; large quan- tities of, captured at Savannah, 685. Cotton gin, effect of the invention of the, 26. Covington, Ga., raid of Gen. Garrard to, 584. Creditors, Northern, act of the Confederate con- gress in relation to, 119.
Creeks, titles of, to lands in Georgia, extinguished by treaty of 1825, 23.
Crew of the Savannah, trial of the, 195.
Crittenden, Col. Thomas L., troops raised by, in defence of Kentucky, 164.
Crittenden, Gen. George B., in command of the rebel force at Mill Spring, 171. Crittenden, Mr., amendments to the Federal Con- stitution proposed by, 54; resolution moved by, in the House of Representatives, 124. Crittenden resolutions, fate of the, 58.
Cross Keys, Va., battle of, 275; dispatch of Fro- mont in relation to the battle at, 276. Cuba, schemes for the annexation of, 29. Cullum, Gen., his report on the works at Winches- ter, 431.
Culpepper Court-House, advance of Gen. Pope to- ward, 824.
Cumberland, concentration of the Army of the Po tomac at, 255.
Cumberland, frigate, the sinking of, by the Merri- mac, 246,
Cumberland Gap, occupation of, by Gen. Zollicof- fer, 164; description of, 408; capture of, by Gen. G. W. Morgan, 409.
Cumberland River, description of, 173. Currency, Confederate, rapid depreciation of, 118,
Curtin, Governor, militia of Pennsylvania called out by, 377.
Curtis, Gen. Samuel R., biographical sketch of, 297; operations of, in Missouri and Arkansas, 297-302; slaves liberated by, in Arkansas, 801. Cushing, Lieut. W. B., how he sank the rebel ram Albemarle, 622.
Cynthiana, burnt by the guerrilla Morgan, 730.
Dahlgren, Admiral John A., succeeds Dupont in command of the South Atlantic Squadron, 504. Dahlgren, Col., death of, 472; papers said to have been found on his body, 472.
Dahlgren gun, peculiarity of the, 226. Dallas, Ga., battle of, 573.
Dallas, Mr., succeeded by Mr. Adams at the Court of St. James, 217, 218.
Dalton, Johnston compelled by Sherman to aban- don his works at, 569.
Dam built by Lieut.-Col. Bailey on the Red Riv er, 602.
Dana, Gen., expedition of, to Brownsville, Texas,
Dana, Mr. C. A., dispatch of, from Spottsylvania Court-House, 521.
Danville and Weldon railroads, expedition of Wil- son and Kautz against, 544. Darby town, battle of, 691.
Davis, Commodore, defeats the rebel fleet near Memphis, 317: fleet of, joins that of Farragut above Vicksburg, 368.
Davis, Gen. Jefferson C., biographical sketch of, 800; expedition of, toward Rover and Franklin, 480; relieves Gen. Palmer, 586,
Davis, Jefferson, biographical sketch of, 114; ex- tracts from his first message, 83; message of, to
the Congress at Richmond, 115; address of, to the Confederate army after the retreat of McClellan from the Chickahominy, 292; details of the cap- ture of, 754; confined in Fortress Monroe, Dayton, Mr., Secretary Seward's instructions to, 218, 219.
Debt, interest-bearing, amount of, 858 Debt, national, interest on, to be paid in coin, 348; amount and composition of. in 1862, 849; and in 1863, 352; amount of, in 1861-64, 354; tabular statement of the, 678; at the close of the war, 756.
Debts, American, British, and French, comparative annual charges on, 854.
Decatur, Ala., capture of, by Col. Turchin, 312. Deep Bottom, reconnoissance from, toward Kieh- mond, 554.
Deerhound, steam yacht, Captain Semmes and others carried off by the, 626.
Delegates to the Mongomery Convention, 47. Democratic convention of 1864, platform of, 666 Deposit loans, 349.
Depreciation of the Confederate currency, 118, 119. Disloyalty in the diplomatic corps and among office-holders, 180.
Dismal Swamp Canal, expedition of Gen. Reno to destroy, 342.
District of Columbia, abolition of slavery in the, 857.
Diplomacy, national, results of, 221.
Diplomatic corps, disloyalty among the members
Dix, Gen. John Adams, biographical sketch of 6; famous order of, 67; appointed to the depart ment of Maryland, 108.
Doubleday, Gen., at the battle of Antietam, $82 Draft riot in New York, 466.
Drafts, successive, 470, 471, 478, 546, 694. Dragon, gunboat, destruction of, by the Merrimac,
Drainesville, battle of, 214.
Dred Scott decision, 28.
Dug Springs, Mo., battle of, 148.
Dunham, Col., his defence and surrender of Mum- fordsville, Ky., 401.
Dupont, Rear Admiral Samuel F., biographical sketch of, 198; operations of, in Port Royal bar bor, 198; operations of, against the Charleston forts, 502; retires from command of the South Atlantic Squadron, 504.
Dutch Gap canal, proposed by Gen. Butler, 54; diversion attempted to relieve the working par ties on, 554.
Early, Gen. A. J., contribution levied by, upon York, Pa., 456; his invasion of l'ennsylvania and Maryland, 551-558; operations of Sheridan against, in the Shenandoah Valley, 641-656 East Tennessee, operations of Burnside in, 484; other military operations in, 494-501; Gen. Stone- man appointed to command in, 782. Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, departure of, for Washington, 78; machinists in the ranks of the, 79.
Election. presidential, of 1860, 32; followed by
secession movements, 84
Election, presidential. of 1864, 663–668. Ellet, Col, expedition of, up the Yazoo, 869. Ellis, Gov.. reply of, to President Lincoln's call for troops, 78.
Ellsworth, Col. Ephraim E., death of, at Alexan-
Emancipation, proposition of President Lincoln to Border States in relation to, 857. Emancipation proclamations, 356, 859, 361.
proclamation of Gen. Fremont in Missouri, 154. England, relations with the government of, 217. Europe, interference of, apprehended, 140.
Fair Oaks, battle of, 261; large destruction of gov- ernment stores at, 288.
Falls at Alexandria, how passed by Porter's fleet, 602.
Farragut, Admiral David G., biographical sketch
of, 421; fleet of, pass the Mississippi forts, 364; letter of, to the Mayor of New Orleans, demand- ing surrender; fleet of, pass the Vicksburg bat- teries, 363; fleet of, pass the Port Hudson batter- ies, 421; operations of, against Mobile, 611-615. Fay, Col, Gen. Zollicoffer killed by, 172. Fayetteville, Ark., Gen. Cabel repulsed at, by Col. Harrison, 606.
Fayetteville, N. C., occupation of, by Sherman's forces, 713.
Ferocity of the Southern press and people, 129. Fessenden, Mr. William Pitt, financial manage- ment of, 677.
Finance measures of Secretary Chase, 127. Finances, Federal, disordered condition of, at the beginning of the war, 57; condition of, in 1861, 123; chapter on, 348-354; in 1864, 672–679. Finances of the Confederate States, 118-121. Fisher's Hill, battle of, 646.
Fishersville, capture of, by Sheridan, 707. Fitch, Col., occupation of Fort Wright and Mem- phis by, 817; battery at St. Charles stormed by,
Five Forks, battle of, 721–723.
Florida, secession movements in, 39; expedition to the east coast of, 333; places occupied in, 844; Gen. Asboth's expedition in, 615; other military operations in, 615-619.
Florida, steamer, formerly the Oreto, sails from Mobile, 372: rebel cruiser, history of the, 627; capture of, in the Bay of San Salvador, 627. Floyd, John Buchanan, biographical sketch of, 65; resignation of, 51; escape of, from Fort Donel- son, 177; compelled by Gen. Rosecrans to retreat from the Gauley River, 183.
Flusser, Lient. Commander, singular death of, 621. Foote, Rear Admiral Andrew H., biographical sketch of, 173; fleet of gunboats prepared at Cairo under the direction of, 178; surrender of Fort Henry to, 174; wounded at the siege of Fort Donelson, 176; death of, 504.
Forrest, Gen., defeats Smith and Grierson at West Point, 563; operations of, in Tennessee and Ken- tucky, 563-567; operations of, against Sherman's communications, 630, 681; re-enforces the army of General Hood, 633; defeated by Gen. Milroy near Murfreesboro', 635; defeated and driven out of Selma by Gen. Wilson, 788. Fort Beauregard, S. C., capture of, 200. Fort Darling, unsuccessful attack upon, by iron- clads, 256; failure of Butler's attempt upon, 531. Fort de Russey, La., capture of, 599.
Fort Donelson, description of, 175; siege and cap- ture of, 175-177; results of the capture of, 177. Fort Fisher, description of, 687; torpedo vessel ex- ploded near, 688; failure of the attack upon, 688; correspondence between Porter and Butler in re- lation to the attack upon, 688, 689, language of Gen. Bragg in relation to the attack upon, 690; second expedition against, under General Terry and Admiral Porter, 690-696; capture of, by as- sault, 698; killed and wounded at, 698. Fort Gaines, investment of, by Gens. Granger and Canby, 611; Mobile, surrender of, 614.
Fort Hatteras, surrender of, to a force under Gen. Butler, 146.
Fort Henry, on the Tennessee, siege and capturo of, 174; results of the capture of. 174. Forts Jackson and St. Philip, bombardment and surrender of, 864. 865.
Fort McAllister, attack on, by the iron-clad Mon- tauk, 501; capture of, by Gen. Hazen, 683; dis- patch of General Sherman after the capture of, 683.
Fort Macon, N. C., siege of, 341; capture of, 342. Fort Mahone, Petersburg, capture of. 724. Fort Morgan, Mobile, surrender of, 615. Fort Moultrie, garrison transferred from, to Fort Sumter, 52-65.
Fort Pickens, Florida, garrisoned by Federal troops, 66; re-enforced by Colonel Harvey Brown, 72; fire opened from, on the navy yard and de-
fences of Pensacola, 208.
Fort Pillow, description of, 564; taken by assault, 565; details of the massacre at, 565-567. Fort Powell, Mobile, surrender of, 614. Fort Pulaski, siege of, 844; surrender of, 845. Fort Steadman, near Petersburg, capture and re- capture of, 717-719.
Fort Sumter, garrison of Fort Moultrie transferred to, 52-65; attempt to re-enforce, 52-66; bombard- ment of, 68-70; names of officers in, during the bombardment, 68; arrival of Gen. Wigfall at, 70; surrender of, 72; effect of the fall of, 78; attack on, with iron-clads, 503; made a "shapeless mass of ruins" by Gillmore, 507; national flag restored on, by Gen. Anderson, 704.
Fort Wagner, siege of, 505–508.
Fort Walker, S. C., capture of, 200. Fort Wright, siege of, 314, 815; evacuation of, 315; occupation of, by Col. Fitch, 817. Fortifications, how far valuable, 135. Fortifications erected around St. Louis, 159. Fortress Monroe, head-quarters of General Butler at, 91; army of McClellan at, 241; return of Mc- Clellan's ariny to, from Harrison's Landing, 337. Forts, Federal, seized by State authorities, 67. Forts at Charleston, notice of the, 64.
Forts in the Slave States at the outbreak of the re- bellion, 85,
Forts on Cape Fear River, capture of, 699, 700. Foster, Gen., part taken by, in the attack on New- bern, 839; appointed military governor of New- bern, 340; assigned to command the Department of the Ohio, 501; opens communications with Savannah, 685.
France, relations with the government of, 217; ac- tion of the government of, in relation to the seizure of Mason and Slidell, 223. Franklin, Benjamin, Federal Constitution not satisfactory to, 18.
Franklin, Gen. William Buell, biographical sketch of, 599; at the battle of Antietam, 382; at the battle of Fredericksburg, 393; relieved from duty with the Army of the Potomac, 398; expe- dition of, to Sabine Pass, 596.
Franklin, Tenn., attack upon, by Van Dorn, 481; Hood repulsed at, by Schofield, 634. Frauds in the War Department, 52. Frederick, Md., march of the Confederates upon, 877. arrival of Hooker's army at, 453. Fredericksburg, Burnside's operations against, 391; battle of, 893.
Freedmen's Bureau established, 662.
Fremont, Gen. John Charles, biographical sketch of, 271; extensive command assigned to, 106; operations of, in the West, 147-160; martial law declared in St. Louis by, 151; proclamation of in Missouri, of August, 1861; complaints made against, by Col. Blair, 155; alleged extravagance of, 156; dispatch of, in relation to the fall of Lex- ington, 158; advance of, toward Lexington, 159; reoccupies Springfield, 159; order transmitted to, from the Secretary of War, 159; superseded
by Gen. Hunter, 160; placed in command of the Mountain Department, 238; operations of, in Virginia, 270-279; dispatches of, to Harrison- burg, 275, 276; dispatch of, from Port Republic, Va, 276; severe measures adopted by, against plunderers, 278; resignation of, 278; order of Stanton relieving, 279.
French, Gen., at the battle of Antietam, 882; forces the passage of the Rappahannock at Kel- ly's Ford, 465.
Front Royal, Col. Kenly surprised at, 169.
Frost, Gen., surrender of, at Camp Jackson, to Capt. Lyon, 104.
Fugitive slave law, opposition to, in the North, 27.
Gaines's Mills, battle of, 285. Galveston, operations at, 208. Gamble, Hamilton R., appointed provisional gov- ernor of Missouri, 116.
Gantt, Hon. E. W., defection of, from the Confed- erates in Arkansas, 607.
Gardner, Gen., correspondence of, with Gen. Banks in relation to the surrender of Vicksburg 441. Garfield, Col., Humphrey Marshall driven out of Kentucky by, 172.
Garnett, Gen., defeat and death of, at Carrick's Ford, 112.
Garrard, Gen., raid of, to Covington, Ga., 584. Garrisons in Federal forts in the Slave States at the outbreak of the rebellion, 85.
Gauley Bridge, rapid retreat of Gen. Wise from, 181; operations in the vicinity of, 182-184. Geary, Col., attacked by a rebel force near Bolivar Heights, Va., 211.
Georgia, opposition to the National Government in, in 1825, 22; Indian claims to lands in, extin- guished by treaty, 23; forts in, seized by Gov. Brown, 40; operations of Sherman in, 567-596, 679-686; appeals of Beauregard and the Georgia delegation to the people of, 681; appeal of Sena- tor Hill to the people of, 682.
Georgia, privateer, where built and armed, 875; capture of the, 627.
Georgia Convention, secession resolution and or- dinance passed by, 40.
Gettysburg, battle of, 458-463.
Gillem, Gen., defeated by Breckinridge near Bull Gap, 731; operations of, in Southwest Virginia, 782. Gillmore, Gen. Quincy Adams, biographical sketch of, 504; his capture of Fort Pulaski, 345; suc- ceeds Hunter in command of the Department of the South, 504; operations of, against Morris Island, 505; dispatch of, announcing the capture of Fort Wagner, 508; in Butler's attack on Fort Darling, 531; the Florida expedition planned by, 616; operations of, against Charleston, 702; dispatch of, announcing the surrender of Charles- ton, 703.
Glendale, battle of, 290.
Gold, rapid disappearance of, in the Confederate States, 120; rise in the premium on, 849- 851; measures of Congress to prevent dealing in, 674; effect of legislation on the price of, 675; monthly course of the premium on, in 1862- 1865, 679.
Gold bill, repeal of the, 676.
Goldsborough, occupation of, by Gen. Schofield, 702, 716.
Gordonsville, retreat of the Confederate forces to, from Manassas, 235.
Gortchakoff, Prince, remarkable letter of, 220. Gosport Navy Yard, destruction of national prop- erty at, 74.
Government, National, history of various attempts to resist the, 18-30; war powers of the, 355. Governors of slaveholding States, reply of, to Pres- ident Lincoln's call for troops, 78. Grain, large export of, to Europe, 352, 354.
Grand Gulf, occupation of, by Gen. Grant, 433; march of Gen. Grant's army from, toward Vicks burg, 423-427.
Granger, Gen., attacked by Van Dorn at Frank- lin, Tenn., 481.
Grant, Lieut.-Gen. Ulysses S., biographical sketch of, 150; occupies Paducah, 163, 171; proclamation issued by, at Paducah, 168; surrender of For Donelson to, 177; army of, at Pittsburg Landing, surprised by Gen. Johnston, 807; losses of the army of, 811; apology for, 812; appointed to the command of West Tennessee, 815; opers- tions of, against Vicksburg, 420-490; corre- spondence of, with Pemberton, in relation to the surrender of Vicksburg, 430–432; letter of Pres- ident Lincoln to, after the fall of Vicksburg, 434; called to command the army in Tennes see, 495; drives Bragg from Lookout Mountain, 500; appointed lieutenant-general, 573; formal presentation of his commission to, 477; cor- respondence of, with President Lincoln. 477; his plan for the capture of Richmond, 590; eor- respondence of, with Gen. Lee, in relation to terins of surrender, 726-723; sent from Wash- ington to Sherman, at Raleigh, 786, Graves House, Ga., skirmish at, 572. Greble, Lieut., death of, at Big Bethel, 93, Greeley, Horace, letter of President Lincoln to, 358; letters of, in relation to propositions for peace, 669, 670; telegram of President Lincoln to, 671; final reply of Clay and Holcombe to, 672.
Grierson, Col., cavalry raid of, from Lagrange, Tenn., to Baton Rouge, La., 484.
Grierson and Smith, Gens., cavalry expedition ef, from Memphis toward Meridian, 562. Griswoldville, Ga., battle of, 681. Guerrillas, activity of, in Western Missouri, 153; letter of Gen. Sherman in relation to the treat- ment of, 578.
Guinney's Station, Gen. Torbert at, 525. Gunboats, fleet of, prepared at Cairo, 173; Fort Henry, on the Tennessee, captured by the sid of, 174; compelled to retire from the attack on Fort Donelson, 176; screw, built for the navy, 189; iron-clad, compelled to retire from Fort Darling, 256; important assistance rendered by, at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, 309; fight of with the rebel fleet, near Memphis, $17; at- tack made with, on Sabine Pass, 596; capture of the rebel ram Tennessee by, 613, Gunboat Unadilla, description of, 190.
Guns, calibre, weight, &c., of, in the United States service, 227.
Guyandotte, a small body of Union troops sur- prised at, 185.
Habeas Corpus, suspension of, by the President, 180; opinions of Taney and Bates as to the Presi dent's power to suspend the, 130; opinion of Reverdy Johnson in relation to the suspension of, 131.
Hagerstown, troops concentrated at, 287; Stuart's cavalry driven out of, 464; occupation of, by rebel cavalry, 552.
Haines's Bluff, attacks of Sherman upon, 419, 422, 423.
Hainesville, Va., battle at, 109.
Halleck, Gen. Henry Wager, biographical sketch of, 295; command of the Western Department assumed by, 179; placed in command of the De- partment of the Mississippi, 288; severe meas- ures of, with regard to secessionists, 296; affairs in Missouri under the management of, 295-50; order of, excluding fugitive slaves from Federal camps, 296; appointed to the Department of the Mississippi, 802; dispatches of, in relation to the evacuation of Corinth, 815-816; opera- tions of, against Corinth, 313-317; made com-
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