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NEWSPAPERS
Washington, D.C.
Constitutional Union
Congressional Globe
Daily Chronicle
Daily National Intelligencer
The Daily Record (Law and economics periodical)
Evening Star
National Republican
Sunday Morning Chronicle
New York, N. Y.
Herald
Times
Tribune
Spirit of the Times
MANUSCRIPTS
Private papers of B. B. French—Library of Congress
Official papers of B. B. French, Commissioner of Public Buildings—National Archives
Intercepted correspondence of the Civil War, 1861—National Archives
Record of the Hearings of State prisoners before the Dix-Pierrepont Commission in Washington, 1862—National Archives
Index
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Abolitionists, 3, 49, 50, 121, 151, 155, 159, 182, 207, 212, 225, 291, 295, 297–298, 300, 302, 303, 304, 306, 307, 365, 369
Adams, Charles Francis, 355, 358, 526
Adams, Mrs. Charles Francis, 23
Adams, Henry, 6, 15, 50, 56, 82, 526, 540
Alabama, secession of, 29
Alabama, 407
Alcott, Bronson, 278, 526
Alcott, Louisa M., 275–278, 526
Aldie, 315
Alexander, B. S., 411, 412
Alexandria, 16, 203, 204, 231, 232
attack on, 98–101
convalescent camp, 265, 273
gathering of fleet at, 203, 204
hospital at, 128
return of army to, 230, 242, 243, 244
Allen, E. J.; see Pinkerton, Allan
Ambulances, 258–260, 268, 269, 278, 316, 398, 399, 401
Analostan Island, 313, 336
Anderson, Robert, 5, 27, 29, 32, 62, 67, 78, 89, 526, 550
Annapolis
Department of, 98
troop landing at, 77
Anti—Negro riots, 21, 292
Antietam, 249, 254, 269, 272, 285, 289, 318, 328, 512
Appointments, distribution of; see Patronage
Appomattox, 469, 471, 472, 512
Appropriations for war, 135, 136
Aquia Creek, 75, 230, 233
Arkansas, provisional government in, 439
Arlington cemetery, 402
Arlington Heights, 17, 70, 99, 131, 133
Army officers, election of, 95, 96
Arnold, Samuel, 447, 448, 450, 460, 461, 462, 464, 465, 475, 500, 503, 507, 509, 547
Assassination
attempted, of Seward, 485–487
of Lincoln, 487, 489–491
aftermath of, 489–493, 497
events leading up to, 471, 475–476, 478–487
Associated Press, 396
Astor, John Jacob, 140
Atlanta, 428, 429, 513
Atrocity stories, 131
Atzerodt, George, 447, 449, 460, 461, 462, 482, 500, 501, 503, 507, 508, 509, 510
Augur, Christopher C., 410, 411, 412, 414, 415, 418, 421, 422, 431, 441, 466, 486, 487, 490, 502
Augusta, A. T., 313
Austin, Sara, 321, 326, 327, 328
Bacon, Peter, 420, 421
Bailey, Buck, 195, 196
Bailey’s Cross Roads, 142, 333
Baker, Edward D., 54, 136, 144, 148, 149
Baker, Fort, 424
Baker, La Fayette C., 183, 191, 195–196, 329, 330, 340, 391, 438, 502–503, 504, 506, 507, 526–527, 547, 556
Baker, L. B., 502, 503
Balloon, use of, in war, 104, 114, 143, 164
Ball’s Bluff, 144, 151, 266, 355
Baltimore
assassination plot in, 43, 44
House of Refuge, 324
Lincoln in, 41
skirmish, 74–75
surprise movement on, 97–98
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 97, 136, 160, 409, 412, 432
Bancroft, George, 371
Banks, Nathaniel P., 112, 139, 160, 177, 206, 212, 214, 215, 220, 228, 230, 248, 271, 274, 285, 388, 527, 552
Barnard, John G., 140, 141, 230, 238, 410
Barnes, Joseph K., 400, 487, 504, 527
Barnum, P. T., 250
Barry, William F., 139
Barton, Clara, 56, 74, 270–272, 278, 339, 401, 527
Barton, John; see McCarty, Mrs. L. A.
Bartow, General, 203
Bates, David, 475, 478–479, 482
Bates, Edward, 49, 176, 215, 216, 284, 289, 303, 305, 332, 390, 436, 551
Baxley, Mrs., 173, 174, 185, 186, 189, 192
Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 58, 62, 67, 69, 108, 114, 116–117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 127, 133, 167, 170, 528, 538, 539, 542
Beecher, Henry Ward, 295
Beeson, Father, 64, 377
Bell, John, 24
Belle Plain, 398, 399, 400, 401, 503
Bellows, Henry, 263–265, 265
Ben Hur, 412
Benjamin, Judah P., 25, 29
Bennett, James Gordon, 358, 361, 369
Berret, James E., 33, 47, 56, 92, 94, 168, 299
Bertinatti, Chevalier, 57, 366
Bible, 214, 269
Bickerdyke, Mother, 513
Bidwell, D. D., 423, 424
Big Bethel, 106
Bigelow, John, 111, 116, 133
Bill of Rights, 177
Bingham, John A., 509, 528
Black code, 291–292
Black Republicans, 21, 24, 60, 176, 191
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sp; Bladensburg, 13, 16, 421, 424, 435
Turnpike, 77, 139
Blair, Francis P., 17, 46, 70, 316, 425, 439
Blair, Francis P., Jr., 46, 210, 513, 528
Blair, Montgomery, 46, 48, 49, 62, 70, 155, 195, 196, 210, 221, 241, 243, 289, 305, 316, 391, 425, 429, 528, 533
Blenker, Louis, 104, 141, 146, 154, 205, 366, 515, 528
Blockade
of the Potomac, 78, 142, 151, 209
of the South, 74, 96, 97, 158, 340
Blue Jug, 296, 297, 298, 304, 305
Bonaparte, Napoleon Jerome, 357–358
Bonds, Government, 285
Bonham, M. L., 118
Booth, Edwin, 14, 387, 444, 448
Booth, John Wilkes, 343, 443–450, 452, 454, 455, 460–464, 465, 471, 473, 474, 475, 476, 480–482, 490, 491, 500, 501, 502, 503–506, 507, 526, 547, 553, 556
Booth, Junius Brutus, 444, 446
Boston Transcript, 120
Bounties for recruits, 217, 229, 285–286, 287, 336, 392, 430
Bounty jumpers, 280, 329
Bowden, Senator, 350
Boyd, Belle, 193–195, 339, 340, 515, 529
Boyle, Cornelius, 34
Bradford, Augustus W., 303, 425
Brady, Matthew, 124, 129, 169–170, 390
Brandy Station, 386, 387
Breckinridge, John C., 21, 24, 29, 38, 108, 131, 136, 353, 379, 403, 412, 425, 426, 529
Bristoe Station, 334
Brooks, Noah, 284, 375, 377, 434, 479
Brooks, Preston, 19
Brown, Aaron, 20
Brown, John, 21, 22, 23, 292, 444, 543
Brown, Septimus, 173
Brown’s Hotel, 9, 128, 186, 190, 245
Brownell, Francis E., 100, 101
Brownell, Kady, 85, 131–132
Browning, Orville H., 152, 161, 162, 376
Buchanan, Franklin, 59, 75–76
Buchanan, James, 3, 9, 10, 19–20, 21, 24, 26, 27–28, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 65, 67, 178, 332, 356, 370, 515, 529, 533, 534, 537, 553
Buckingham, Catharinus P., 251
Buckner, Louisa P., 195–196
Buell, Don Carlos, 138, 208
Bull Run
First Battle of, 121–125, 135, 138, 141, 165, 167, 193, 203, 213, 253, 256, 265, 269, 270, 285, 293, 294, 347, 357, 427
Second Battle of, 233–234, 236, 242, 268, 271, 287, 322, 328
Bummer Brigade, 513–514
Burnett, H. R., 506, 509
Burns, Thomas, 370–371, 442
Burnside, Ambrose E., 3, 84, 126, 138, 158, 163, 220, 230, 244, 247, 248, 278, 279, 280–281, 393, 394, 395, 396, 511, 529–530, 535, 541
at Fredericksburg, 274–275, 276
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