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Author Surname Beginning with “B” Collection created by Dr. George C. Rable Documents Added as of September 2021 Baer, Charles A. “The Diary of Charles A. Baer, Norristown, 1862-63.” Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery Country 7 (October 1950): 197-212. Norristown, Pennsylvania minister Church activities, 197ff Chapel tent, 197 Funeral for soldier killed at Fredericksburg, 198 Lack of serious of members of his class, Lutheran, 198 Dancing, 198 Easter, snow, 199 Meeting on building a new church, 200 Fasting, humiliation, and prayer, 201 Hooker, Chancellorsville, 201 Gettysburg campaign, Confederate invasion, militia enrollment, 204-7 Building the new church, 204ff Barnes, James P. and Patience P. Barnes. “What I Thought at Antietam.” Civil War Times 45 (September 2006): electronic, no pagination. John Rankin, 27th Indiana Infantry, Co. A Antietam General Mansfield Battin, C. Milton. “Diary of C. Milton Battin.” Now and Then 7 (1942-45): 106-110. Quaker, Cuyler Hospital Philadelphia, 107 Food, 107 Dysentery, 107-8 Photographs, 107 Marriage, 108 Home chores, 109 Bauer, Cheryl. “Brother Reuben Wise.” Civil War Times 44 (October 2005): electronic, no pagination. Shakers, South Union, Kentucky Guerrillas Shakers antislavery but not abolitionists Union cavalry Kindness of the Shakers to the soldiers 2 Besselien, T. E. “A Cavalryman’s Crash Course in Medicine.” Civil War Times Illustrated 37 (May 1998): electronic version, no pagination. 2nd South Carolina Cavalry Brandy Station, Stevensburg Colonel Butler wounded Colonel’s foot amputated Bodman, Albert Holmes. “’In Sight of Vicksburg’: Private Diary of a Northern War Correspondent.” Historical Bulletin 34 (1956): 202-21. Correspondent, Chicago Tribune Memphis, delivery of dispatches, 204 General C. S. Hamilton, General Hurlbut, 204 Vicksburg, 204ff Hospitals, 205 General Quimby, alcohol, 206 Young’s Point, 207 Canal, 207-8 Unhealthy climate, 208 Fraternization, 209 Copperheads in the army, 210 Western Sanitary Commission, 210 Atrocities, 210-11 Lake Providence, 211-12 Hurlbut, 211-12 Cotton speculators, Grant, 213 Canal, 213-14 Lake Providence, plantation, 215 Break in levee at Lake Providence, 219 Grave, 219 Soldiers drowning, 219-20 Bohannon, Keith. “’A Great Deal of Hard Fighting’.” Civil War Times 59 (February 2020): 54- 61. 24th and 25th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) Philip K. Smith, Captain Jonesboro battle, 56ff Defeat and evacuation of Atlanta, 57 Casualties, 58 Criticism of General Mark P. Lowery, 58 3 Map, 59 General Granbury, passim Bohannon, Keith. “’I Was Rapidly Bleeding to Death’.” Civil War Times 57 (June 2018): 36- 43. M. D. L. Stephens, Colonel, 31st Mississippi Infantry Fighting at Decatur, Alabama, 39-40 Battle of Franklin, General Winfield S. Featherston, General John Adams, 41-43 Food, 43 Bohannon, Keith. “’Longstreet Reeled in His Saddle’.” Civil War Times 56 (June 2017): 26- 33. Article at end of 1865 in Savannah Republican Probably Francis Dawson Micah Jenkins Longstreet’s wounding, Wilderness Bohannon, Keith. “No Man Wavered.” Civil War Times 56 (December 2017): 50-56. 1st Missouri Brigade Battle of Allatoona Pass, 52-54 Battle of Franklin, 55-56 Bohannon, Keith, ed. “’Our Rifles Spoke’.” Civil War Times 58 (April 2019): 54-60. William W. Hutchins, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, Co. B, corporal Second Bull Run, Brawner’s Farm, 57ff Map, 58 Bohannon, Keith. “’Performed Their Whole Duty.’” Civil War Times 59 (June 2020): 55-61. 2nd Wisconsin Infantry George Henry Otis, Captain Gettysburg, 58ff Leaving dead and wounded to the enemy, 59 Casualties, 61 Bombaugh, Charles C. “Extracts from a Journal Kept during Earlier Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac.” Maryland Historical Magazine 5 (December 1916): 301-26. 4 69th Pennsylvania, Surgeon Edward Baker, 301ff Irish regiment, 302 Camp Advance, 303ff Friendly fire, scouting parties, deaths, 304-5 Poolesville, Baker, Ball’s Bluff, Charles Stone, 305-11 Peninsula campaign, 311ff Cheering for McClellan, 312 Water, 314 Siege of Yorktown, 315 Williamsburg, 316 Wounded soldier, 316 Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, surgery, 320-23 Storm, Chickahominy, 323 Hospital tent, character of soldiers, 324-25 Dissatisfaction, morale, 325-26 Bowles, Pinckney Downie. “Many a Gallant Soul.” Civil War Times Illustrated 38 (May 1999): electronic, no pagination. 4th Alabama Infantry, Colonel, Overland campaign, Wilderness Yankee prisoners William C. Oates, 5th Alabama Infantry casualties “’Brave but Vain Valor!’” Civil War Times 52 (December 2013): electronic, no pagination. George Finley 4th Virginia Infantry, Co. E 56th Virginia Infantry, lieutenant Gettysburg, Pickett’s Charge Brown, Nathan. “A Conference with Abraham Lincoln.” Edited by N. Worth Brown and Randolph C. Downes. Northwest Ohio Historical Quarterly 24 (1950): 48-63. Religious editor and minister who along with George B. Cheever and William Goddell visited Lincoln at White House on December 31, 1862, 50ff Present a memorial for abolition of slavery, 51 Should have declared for freedom from the beginning, 53 Conference with Lincoln, help from Senator Harlan, memorial read to Lincoln, 56-61 Minister’s statement on justice, 62 5 Buhrer, George W. “Letters & Diaries.” Civil War Times Illustrated 1 (April 1962): 16, 18. George W. Buhrer, 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, Co. E Mosby, guerrillas, 16 Punishment, 16 Dranesville, 16 Scouting parties, 16 July 4, 16 Jubal Early raid on Washington, 18 Mosby. 18 Engagement at Waynesboro, 18 Cedar Creek, 18 Bulck, Luther E. “With Lincoln on His Last Journey.” Edited by Edward G. Longacre. Lincoln Herald 84 (1982): 239-41. 9th United States Veteran Reserve Corps, Co. E, Sergeant Guard of honor, Lincoln’s body to Springfield, 239 Yonkers greeted by young women dressed in white, 240 Albany, 240-41 Cleveland, 241 Columbus, 241 Indianapolis, 241 Chicago, 241 Young woman killed by train engine, 241 Springfield, 241 Bushnell, Wells A. “A Buckeye’s Adventures.” Civil War Times 43 (June 2004): electronic, no pagination. 6th Ohio Cavalry, Co. A Memoir, Western Reserve Historical Society May 1864 raid toward Richmond Yellow Tavern Prisoners, execution Custer Casualties Buttacavoli, Dennis. “I Am Alive yet but Very near Wore Out.” Civil War Times 46 (February 2007): electronic, no pagination. 6 Robert Aitken, 4th New Jersey Infantry, Co. B Balloon Deserter execution Mud Gaines’s Mill, taken prisoner, Richmond Hospital, Stonewall Jackson, Governor Curtin Documents Added as of August 2021 Bacon, George B. “One Night’s Work, April 20, 1862. Breaking the Chain for Farragut’s Fleet at the Forts Below New Orleans.” Magazine of American History 15 (March 1886): 305- 7. Officer of USS Itasca Chain across river between Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 305 Confederate battery fire, 305-6 Used powder to blow up hulks to which chain was anchored, 306 Itasca broke the chain but was disabled by enemy fire hitting the boiler, 307 Bailey, W. H. “The Battle of Great Bethel Church.” Blue and Gray 5 (1895): 153-56. North Carolina, 1st Bethel Infantry (Six Months troops) North Carolina secession, 153 Formation of regiment, 153 Great Bethel, 153ff Map, 154 D. H. Hill’s report, 154-56 Beasley, W. F. “The 48th N.C. Troops at Sharpsburg.” Our Living and Our Dead 1 (1874-75): 330. 48th North Carolina Infantry Antietam, 330 Makes case for 48th North Carolina and 30th Virginia, 330 Bonner, T. R. “Sketches of the Campaign of 1864.” Land We Love 5 (October 1868): 459-66; 6 (November 1868): 7-12. 18th Texas Infantry Walkers’ Texas Division, 459ff 7 Red River campaign, 460ff Mansfield, 460-66 Cavalry, 462 Mouton’s division, 463-64 Forced to retreat, 465 Casualties, 466 Battle of Pleasant Hill, 7-12 Dead Federal soldier, 8 Signs of destruction, 8 General Randall’s brigade, 9-10 Documents Added as of March 2020 Boswell, James Keith. “The Diary of a Confederate Staff Officer: Jackson’s Boswell.: Civil War Times Illustrated 15 (April 1976): 30-38. Second Corps, Captain, Jackson Moss Neck, 31 D. H. Hill, 31 Review of the Light Division, 31 Magruder, 31 French recognition, 31 Vicksburg, 31 Death of relative, Stones River, 31 Women, Jefferson Davis message, 32 Woman singing, jealousy, suicide, burial, 32 Marriage proposal, 34 Stonewall Jackson, 34-35 Confederate morale, determination, women, 35 Extortioners, prices, 35 St. Paul’s church, sermon, 35 Kelly’s Ford, 36 Gave Jackson a can of peaches, 36 Examining Banks and U.S. Ford, 36 Port Royal, 37 Death of Jackson, 37 Details his own service and condition of the army in April 1863, 39 Bowden, John Malachi. “A Confederate ‘Yankee’ Surviving Prison.” Civil War Times Illustrated 15 (April 1976): 36-37. 2nd Georgia Infantry Point Lookout, 36-37 High death rate, 37 8 Description of the prison, 37 Education, 37 Rations, food, 37 Trading food, 37 Documents Added as of January 2020 Behm, Jacob. “Emancipation.” Civil War Times Illustrated 21 (February 1983): 46-47. 48th Illinois Infantry Copperheads, 46 Soldier mad at peace proposals in legislatures, 46 Lincoln and emancipation, Confederates can only blame themselves, Douglas, 46-47 Brogan, John P. “A Hero’s Death.” Edited by Martin Graham. Civil War Times Illustrated 23 (March 1984): 20-25. 65th New York Infantry 1864 Valley campaign Heat, stragglers, 21 Captain could not deal with the unexpected, 23 Did not find Confederates but killed and buried a dog, 24-25 Brownlow, James P. “More on Raw Courage.” Civil War Times Illustrated 14 (October 1975): 36-38. 1st Tennessee Cavalry (Union), Colonel Cochran’s Ford Regiments moves around a good deal, 37 Tried to cross the Chattahoochee in the nude and attack Confederate pickets, 37 Fraternization, 38 Documents added as of August 2019 Beauregard, P. G. T. “The Shiloh Campaign.” North American Review 142 (January, February 1886): 1-24, 159-84. 9 Has been reluctant to write on this phrase of the war, 1 Need for energetic measures in spring of 1862, 2 Albert Sidney Johnston, 3ff Fort Henry and Donelson, 4-9 Evacuation of Columbus, 11 Impaired health, 12 Need for an offensive, governors, need for more troops, 12 Concentrating forces at Corinth was his idea, not Johnston’s, 16 Beauregard hurried along concentration of western forces, 19 Johnston willing to turn over command to Beauregard, 21 Marching orders, Beauregard plans vs.
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