Index
Figures in bold refer to illustrationsAbraham's Creek 216
Adams, Charles Francis 71
agriculture 89
Alabama, and slavery 26-7
Alexander, Brigadier-General Edward Porter 51,
180, 310
Alexandria, Louisiana 260, 261
Allatoona 265, 267
Allegheny Mountains 46, 47
Amelia Court House 223
American Revolution 34, 35, 310
amputations, surgical instruments 151
Anaconda Plan 36, 38, 106-7, 239
Anderson, General Richard H. 75, 192
Anderson, Major-General Robert 31, 110
Anderson, William ('Blood) Bill') 250, 251, 252
Andersonville stockade, Georgia 297-8, 298 ,
313
Antietam, battle of (17 September 1862) 60,
61, 62, 63 , 299
Appomattox Court House. Lee's surrender at
(9 April 1865) 222 , 223, 230
Arkansas, secession from Union 31, 239
Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman) 246
Armistead, General Lewis A. 174-5, 180
Army of the Cumberland see Union Army
Army of Georgia see Union Army
Army of the James see Union Army
Arms of Northern Virginia see Confederate
Army
Army of the Potomac see Union Army
Army of Tennessee see Confederate Army
Army of the Tennessee see Union Army
Army of Virginia see Union Army
Arsenal and Gunpowder Works, Augusta 277
Atlanta
battle of (22 July 1864) 271
battles around 266
defensive works 270
fall of 209,272, 301
Atlanta campaign 263-72, 263
ordnance trains, destruction of 272-3
railroads, destruction of 277
Augusta, Georgia 276, 277
Averasborough, battle of (16 March 1865) 288,
302
Averell, General William W. 212
Bailey, Major Joseph 261
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 215Banister. Anne 201
Banks. Major-General Nathaniel P. 261
Red Riser operation 260-1
Shenandoah Valley campaign (1862) 46
and siege of Port Hudson 142, 248
Barksdale, General William 85,87, 177
Barnard, George N. 269, 270, 307
'Beall Air' 232
Beatty, John 152-5
Beauregard, General Pierre Gustave Toutant 34,
118
as adviser to Hood 275
on Confederate strengths 35
at Corinth 243
and first Manassas campaign 38-9, 40
at Petersburg 200, 201
at Shiloh 119, 122, 123
Tennessee campaign 278
at Tupelo. Mississippi 124
Bee, Brigadier-General Barnard 40
'Beefsteak Raid' 209
Bell, John C. 27
Belmont. Missouri 112, 240
Bennett, James and Nancy 308
Bentonville, battle of (21 March 1805) 289
Bermuda Hundred 200
Big Barren River 152-3
Big Round Top (Gettysburg) 176
Black Hawk War 35, 112
Black River 142
Blair, Francis P. 249
'Bloody Angle' (Spotsylvania) 194-5, 196, 197,
228
'Bloody Lane' (Antietam) 60
Blue Ridge Mountains 213, 215
Booth, John Wilkes 308
Bowling Green, Kentucky 112, 115, 241
Boydton Plank Road 211, 221
Bragg, General Braxton 128 , 244
and Atlanta campaign 268
background and character 128
at Chattanooga 258
Kentucky campaign 128, 130,243-4
at Shiloh 119
at Stone's River 132, 134-5, 245
and Tullahoma campaign 142, 252-5
Brandy Station, battle of (9 June 1803) 167,
167-8
brass bands 149-50, 149
Brawnet farm 56
bread riots, Richmond 92 , 93
Breckinridge, General John C. 27, 132, 212-13