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in ten volumes (1890), and The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, in twelve volumes (1905), form the quarry from which all true accounts of his war statesmanship must be built up. Lord Charnwood's Abraham Lincoln (1917) is an admirable summary. To these titles should be added Gideon Welles's Diary, 3 vols. (1911), and, on the Confederate side, Jefferson Davis's The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, 2 vols. (1881), and Alexander H. Stephens's A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, 2 vols. (1870). The best life of Jefferson Davis is that by William E. Dodd in the American Crisis Biographies (1907). W. H. Russell's My Diary North and South (1863) records the impressions of an intelligent foreign observer.

The present Chronicle is based entirely on the original evidence, with the convenient use only of such works as have themselves been written by qualified experts directly from the original evidence.

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Albemarle, Confederate ram,
Cushing destroys, 303, 318-

319

Albemarle Sound, command
lost, 93
Alexandria (Louisiana), State
Seminary of Learning and
Military Academy, 6-7
Allatoona (Georgia), Johnston
evacuates, 348; Corse's de-
fense of, 369-70
"Anaconda policy," 184
Anderson, Colonel Charles,
quotes Lee, 11

Anderson, Major Robert, com-
mands at Fort Moultrie, 2;
at Fort Sumter, 3, 12-15;
surrender, 15; leaves Fort
Sumter, 16; appointed to
Kentucky command, 29;
superseded by Sherman, 120
Annapolis, Union troops at,

17

Antietam (Maryland), battle,
178, 245-46, 292
Apache Cañon, fight in, 166
Appomattox Court House
(Virginia), Lee's surrender,
327, 389
Appomattox Station, Custer
raids, 388

26

401

Aquia, McClellan's troops at,
228-29, 231, 234

Archer, J. T., Confederate
brigadier, 298

Arizona, "War in the West,"
165

Arkansas secedes, 56
Arkansas,

109

Confederate ram,

Arkansas Post, capture of,
164

Arlington, home of General
Lee, 19
Armstrong, Commodore, at
Pensacola, 4

Army, Confederate, Act pro-
viding for enlistment, 11-12;
at Harper's Ferry, 21-22;
Jackson and, 21-22, 23-24;
lack of equipment, 63, 244;
advantages, 76-77; con-
scription, 78; munitions, 78;
relations with Federals at
Vicksburg, 276; Army of
Northern Virginia, 336; un-
renewable wastage, 355;
number of troops (1865),
380; Lee's farewell to, 393
Army, Federal, enlistments,
33; Congress votes troops
and money, 34, 40; McDow-
ell's, 39-40; regulars in, 79;
number of troops, 79-80;
conscription, 81; organi-
zation, 82; Grant's (1862),
148; Army of the Cumber-
land, 164, 279; Army of the
Mississippi, 160; Army of

Army, Federal-Continued
the Ohio, 160, 279; well
equipped, 244; Army of the
Potomac, 254-55, 287, 334,
336, 351, 354, 356; Army of
the Tennessee, 160, 260, 280,
358; Army of Virginia, 227,
243; relations with Con-
federates at Vicksburg, 276;
Army of the James, 334, 336,
340, 356; reviewed in Wash-
ington, 395

Army Act, Provisional Con-
federate Congress passes,
11-12

at

Ashby, Turner, Confederate
cavalry leader, 205;
Harrisonburg, 207; Valley
raid, 212; death, 215-16
Ashby's Gap, Johnston crosses
Blue Ridge at, 45
Ashland (Virginia), Jackson
at, 223

Atlanta, Southern cannon
made at, 64; Northern ob-
jective, 327, 336; battle,
358-59; Sherman announces
fall of, 361; effect of victory,
364; Sherman's headquar-
ters, 366-67; last action near,
368-70

Atlanta, Confederate ram cap-
tured by Weehawken, 309
Averell, W. D., cavalry leader,
355, 357

Bailey, Colonel Joseph, 330
Bailey, Captain Theodorus, 100
Balloons, 63

Baltimore, Secessionists at
Fort Sumter, 3; Massa-
chusetts troops mobbed in,
16; Jackson's plan to occupy,
194
Baltimore and Ohio Railway,
Jackson destroys workshop,

37

Banks, General N. P., super-
sedes General Butler, 118;

on the Mississippi (1862),
113, 114, 167; (1863), 261,
264-65, 272, 273; commands
in Shenandoah Valley, 198;
in Shenandoah campaign,
199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 207,
208, 210, 211, 212, 235; in-
capacity, 261, 265, 273; com-
mands Red River Expedi-
tion, 318, 329, 330, 337, 338
Barrancas Barracks, 3
Bartow, General F. S., Bull
Run, 48; killed, 52
Baton Rouge, Union Arsenal
at, 6; Farragut captures,
107; Confederate attack,
110; Union Navy wins way
to, 117

"Battle above the Clouds,"
Lookout Mountain, 284
Baylor, Captain J. R., pro-
claims himself Governor of
New Mexico, 165-66
Beauregard, General P. G. T.,
sons at Louisiana Military
Academy, 7; and Fort Sum-
ter, 12, 15-16; on the Poto-
mac, 35; at Bull Run, 36, 45,
49; preparation for Shiloh,
146, 147; battle of Shiloh,
153-54; Corinth, 156; and
Confederate plans, 195;
attacks Butler, 340; tele-
gram to Lee, 348-49; com-
mand of troops opposed to
Sherman, 371

Beauregard, Fort, 92
Beaver Dam Creek (Virginia),
Porter's front at Mechanics-
ville, 223

Bee, General B. E., Bull Run,
49; killed, 52

Bell, Commodore H. H., 99,
114

Belmont (Missouri),

attacks, 92, 121

Grant

Benjamin, J. P., Confederate
Secretary of War, 70, 101,
182

Benton, flagship, 266
Bentonville (North Carolina),
battle, 382-83

Bering Sea, Shenandoah in, 69
Bermuda Hundred (Virginia),
Butler seizes, 339

Beverly (West Virginia), Con-
federates retire to, 30
Big Black River (Mississippi),
Grant's victory at, 271
Birge, H. W., and sharp-
shooters, 133

Bixby, Mrs., letter to, 190-

191

Blackburn's Ford (Virginia),

McDowell at, 43, 46
Blair, General F. P., fight for
Missouri, 25, 26, 27, 57,
131; as a general, 261
Blockade, declared, 16; effec-
tiveness, 84, 91-92, 113, 244,
230; blockade-runners, 91-
92, 307-08; on Mississippi,
93; attempts to break, 308-
309, 318; double line neces-
sary, 308
Bloody Angle, salient in Spot-
sylvania action, 343, 344
Bonham, General M. L., Bull
Run, 48
Boonville
28, 118
Boston Mountains, Confeder-
ates hold, 142

(Missouri), battle,

Bowling Green (Kentucky),
Johnston at, 124, 129; John-
ston abandons, 141
Brackett, Colonel A. G.,
quoted, 10-11
Bragg, General Braxton, 287,
325-26; at Baton Rouge, 6;
preparations for Shiloh, 146;
succeeds Beauregard, 161;
invasion of Kentucky, 161,
162, 243; march on Nash-
ville, 164; sends out Morgan,
278; Chickamauga, 279;
Chattanooga, 281, 305; Mis-
sionary Ridge, 282, 283

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Brown, John, 20, 130
Brown, J. E., Governor of
Georgia, 78, 367-68

Bruinsburg (Louisiana), Grant
lands force at, 267, 268
Buchanan, Commodore Frank-
lin, 87

Buckingham, General C. P.,
and McClellan, 248
Buckner, General S. B., as a
general, 136; Fort Donelson,
138; surrender, 139, 140;
and Grant, 140

Buell, General D. C., commands
in West, 122; and Halleck,
123; preparations for Shiloh,
146, 148, 149; battle of
Shiloh, 153, 154; commands
Army of the Ohio, 160; end
of service, 162
Buford, John, cavalry leader
at Gettysburg, 293, 295,
296, 297, 298

Bull Run, First campaign, 33,

84, 171, 172, 181, 193; pub-
lic clamor for action, 34, 39-
40; disposition of forces, 34-
35, 36; Confederate problem,
36-37; Falling Waters, 38-
39; Federal preparations,
41-43; Blackburn's Ford, 43;
McDowell advances, 44;
Confederate preparations
and plans, 44-46; Federal
advance, 47; Confederate
rout, 48-49; Confederates
rally, 49-50; Stuart's charge,

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Cairo (Illinois), Grant in com-
mand at, 119, 121, 122, 261
Caldwell, Lieutenant, of the
Itasca, 99

California, invasion of, 165,
167

Cameron, Simon, Secretary of
War, 33-34, 120; and Sher-
man, 177; Stanton succeeds,
195

Canby, Colonel E. R. S., at
Valverde, 166

Carolinas, danger from West

Virginia, 29; secede, 56;
effective for South (1864),
335; menace to, 336; Sher-
man's march through, 372,
381-82; scene of action
(1865), 380; see also North
Carolina, South Carolina

Carondelet, Federal gunboat,
109, 128, 133, 134, 135, 144-
145

Castle Pinckney, 1, 2, 3
Catlett's Station (Virginia),
Shields at, 204; Banks near,
235

Cayuga, Federal gunboat, 100,
101

Cedar Creek (Virginia), Sheri-
dan's ride to, 363-64
Cedar Run (Virginia), battle,

228

Cemetery Hill (Gettysburg),
Early fails at, 300
Centreville (Virginia), in Bull
Run campaign, 46, 47, 54;
Confederate base, 197; Mc-
Dowell's corps at, 200
Chambersburg (Pennsylvania),
Federals at, 23; Stuart's raid,
246-47

Champion's Hill (Mississippi),
fight of, 271
Chancellorsville

(Virginia),
battle of, 253, 257-58, 290;
plans, 256; Federal defeat,
287
Charleston (South Carolina),
forts, 1-2; beginning of
hostilities, 3, 6; United
States Arsenal seized, 3;
surrender of Fort Sumter,
12-16; menaced, 253, 310;
naval combats around, 308-
309; bombardment, 309; de-
fenses in Southern hands,
326, 335, 380; Savannah
citizens go to, 376
Charlestown (West Virginia),
Patterson advances to, 89
Charlotte (North Carolina).
Southern cannon made in,
64

Chase, S. P., Secretary of
Treasury, 179

Chase, Colonel W.

H.,

demands surrender of Fort
Pickens, 5

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