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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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. Johnston plans, 159-60 Delay, 160-61 Controversy on whether Beauregard recommended withdrawing to Corinth, 163-63 Position of Federals, 164-65 Federals caught by surprise, 166 Pillaging and straggling, 168 Johnston wounded, 171 Failure of final attack, 173 Decided to stay and fight, false report that Buell was heading elsewhere, 175 Second day at Shiloh, 175ff Difficult withdrawal, 178 Illness among troops, 181 Need to withdraw army from Corinth, 182-84

Blue, D. B. “General Marmaduke’s Expedition into Missouri, April and May, 1863. Southern

Magazine 9 (1871): 333-39.

Much criticism of Marmaduke’s campaign into Missouri, 334 His troops were badly armed, inferior numbers, 334 Circumstances rather than Marmaduke explain failure of the campaign, 335 Retreat, 335 Difficulty constructing a bridge, 335-36 Marmaduke report, slightly different version appeared in OR, dated May 20 rather than May 19, 336-39

Bolling, Eugene S. “The Bill of Fare at the Hotel de Vicksburg, 1863.” Edited by Mattie

Russell. Journal of Mississippi History 17 (1955): 282-85.

Satirical menu from fictional Vicksburg hotel during the siege, 282ff Mules, 283

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Bowman, Samuel M. “Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign.” United States Service Magazine 3 (April

1865): 305-22.

Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, 305ff Largely an overview Praises Sherman, 308 Kennesaw Mountain, 311-313 Death of James B. McPherson, 315 Accomplishment of Atlanta campaign, 319

Bowman, Samuel M. “Sherman’s Georgia Campaign from Atlanta to the Sea.” United States

Service Magazine 3 (May 1865): 426-46.

Sherman, 426ff Largely an overview March to the Sea, 429ff Railroad destruction, 437 et passim Savannah, 437ff Foreign assessments of march to the sea, 441-42 Assessing the march to the sea, 442-46

Byam, W. W. “The Lieutenant’s Confession.” Blue and Gray 1 (April 1895): 214-18.

Pineville, Missouri, August 1862 Teams accuses man of being Confederate spy, 214 Preparing to execute the spy, 215 Threatened attack from General Marmaduke, 215 Ordered to take the spy out and shoot him, 216 Fugitive ran, author was wounded in shoulder, 217 Prisoner got away and then Confederates attacked, 218

Byrd, William. “The Capture of Fort De Russy, La.” Land We Love 3 (January 1869): 185-87.

Small garrison, 185 General Walker, 186 Kirby Smith, 186 Capture of Fort De Russy, 185-87

Documents added as of July 2019

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Badeau, Adam. “The Relative Strength of the Two Armies, in Virginia, 1864-5.” Historical

Magazine s2 9 (February 1871): 102-111.

Refutes claims about casualties of Lee and Grant, 102 Lee surrender, 102 Jubal Early cites numbers from Stanton report, reject Badeau on both armies, 102-111

Barter, George W. “The War Department and the Union Army.” Overland Monthly 12 (January

1874): 60-65.

War Department personnel, 60 Military reports, 61 Military situation and conscription in 1864, 62-63 Stanton, Charles A. Dana, 64

Beauregard, P. G. T. “Defense of Charleston, South Carolina in 1862, 1863, and 1864.” North

American Review 142 (May, June 1886); 419-36, 564-71; 143 (July 1886): 42-53.

Assigned to command in Charleston, 419 Pemberton, 420 Conditions, artillery, 420ff Need for more heavy artillery, 422 Seddon, 422 Approaches to Charleston, 423 Strengthening Charleston defenses, 424 Gunboats and water defense, 425 Capturing a Federal gunboat, 426 Failure to break blockade of Charleston, 426 Masked batteries against Federal gunboat, 427 General Ripley, 428 et passim Fear night attack on Sumter, 429 Artillery, 432 Rope obstructions in channel, 432-33 Attack on Sumter, 433 Knew Federals would not give up on the siege, 564 Gilmore replaces Hunter, 565 Federal attack 566ff James Island and Morris Island, 568-70 Seven day bombardment of Sumter, 571 Federal fire on Charleston, 42 Sumter, Wagner, 43 Critique of Gilmore’s account, 45-53 Battery Wagner, 48-49

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Benjamin, Samuel N. “’We Cleared the Way . . . Firing Canister.” Edited by Curt Johnson.

Civil War Times Illustrated 32 (March-April 1993): 20, 22-23.

Battery E, Second United States Artillery, Lieutenant Second Bull Run, artillery, 20ff Sigel, 22 General Robert Schenck, 22 General Isaac Stevens, 22 Casualties, 23

Broome, John Lloyd. “My Own Account of the Fall of New Orleans.” Edited by Michael J.

Miller. Civil War Times Illustrated 26 (May 1987): 38-41.

Lieutenant, Marine on Farragut’s ship Raising flag in New Orleans, 38-41 Taking down Confederate flag, 39 Threats of violence, John T. Monroe, 40

Broomfield, William. “My Imprisonment Down in Dixie.” Edited by Richard E. Shue. Civil

War Times Illustrated 27 (January 1989): 26-33.

1st New York Cavalry Taken prisoner during a raid, 27 Personal items seized, 27 Food, 27 Railroad journey, 27-28 Andersonville, 28 Sanitary conditions, 29 Food, rain, 29 Prisoners killed, 29 Escape, dogs, 30 Religion, 30 Railroad journey, 33 Hospital ship, 33

Bunnell, Jesse H. “General Thomas and the Telegraph Operator.” Blue and Gray 1 (1893): 313-

17.

Telegraph operators in the war, 313ff George H. Thomas, 313ff Rosecrans, 313-14

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Sherman and Thomas, Kennesaw Mountain, 314-16 Johnston and Hood, Sherman, feigned night attack, 316-17

Buswell, Brigham. “’Blood and Feathered’ at Malvern Hill.´ Civil War Times Illustrated 35

(April 1996): 22-24, 26-27. 30, 32, 76-77.

1st U.S. Sharpshooters, Co. F. Retreat to the James, 22ff Rations, food, 23 Water, 24 Bee hives, honey, 24 Sleep, 26 Malvern Hill, 26ff Dead and wounded, 27 Wounded, 30, 32 Prisoner, 76-77

Buswell, Brigham. “A Sharpshooter’s Seven Days.” Civil War Times Illustrated 34 (February

1996): 20, 22-28.

1st U.S. Sharpshooters, Co. F. Hanover Courthouse, 20 Defends McClellan, 20 General Martindale, 20 Soldier killed, 22 Thaddeus Lowe, balloon, 23 Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, 23-24 Mechanicsville, 24 Gaines’s Mill, 24-28 Retreat to the James, 28

Documents added as of June 2019

Barrow, Willie Micajah. “The Civil War Diary of Willie Micajah Barrow, September 23, 1861-

July 13, 1862.” Edited by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and Edwin Adams Davis.

Louisiana Historical Quarterly 17 (July, October 1934): 436-51, 712-31.

Merchant, St. Francisville, Louisiana, Confederate Soldier, Officer, Adjutant? Guard duty, 441 Prank in church, 445 Discussion about childrearing, 445 Chaplain sermon, 446

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Food, 448 Christmas, food, 451 Tableaux vivants, 715 Sabbath, 716-17 New Orleans, 718-19 Women, 720 Union prisoners, fighting for the Union, 721 Shiloh, prisoner, 722 Camp Douglas, dysentery, 723ff Reading activities in camp, 725 Lice, 726 Police searching prisoner quarters, 728 Letters from Camp Douglas, 730-31

Bartlett, William C. “Knoxville’s Memorable Night.” Journal of the Military Service Institution

of the United States 48 (1911): 259-63.

3rd United States Artillery Slave impressment, 260 Siege of Knoxville, 260 Fort Sanders, 262-63 Avenging death of William P. Sanders, 263

Bell, William H. “Antebellum: The Old Army in Texas in ’61.” Magazine of History 3 (1906):

80-86.

3rd United States Infantry Fort Clark, March 1861, 80ff Evacuation order from Twiggs, 80 Attempt to raise a secessionist flag, 81 Leaving Texas, Havana, 83-85 Washington, 85-86

Blair, Benjamin F. “The Escape of a ’61 Man.” Michigan Alumnus 9 (1903): 254-59.

102nd United States Colored Troops Prisoner escape, 254ff Help from slaves, 255-57

Blunt, James G. “General Blunt’s Account of His War Experiences.” Kansas Historical

Quarterly 1(May 1932); 211-65.

Raising troops after Sumter, 213

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Fort Scott, James H. Lane, 214ff Sterling Price, 214ff Criticism of Federal strategy, 217 Governor Robinson’s hostility, breakup of regiments, politics, 218-220 Halleck, 220-21 Commanding Department of Kansas, 222 Organized Indian regiments, 222-23 John Ross, 224 Battle of Newtonia, 226-27 Schofield, West Point tactics, 228-29 Marmaduke, Hindman, Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, 229-34 Van Buren, Arkansas, 236-38 Governor Thomas Carney, Kansas, 238-39 Red Legs, guerrillas, 239 Schofield and Carney plot against him, Edward Bates, Lincoln, 240 General Ewing, 242 et passim Schofield and organization of Indians, 246 More trouble with Schofield, 249 et passim Accusations about alcohol, 249 Lincoln, General Steele, 250 Indians, 251ff Sterling Price invasions of Missouri, 252-64 General Curtis, 252 et passim Westport?, 260ff Suffered much from treachery on his own side, 265

Boyles, John A. “With a Flag of Truce.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 28 (March 1864):

540-47.

John A. Dix, flag of truce boats, 540ff Unionist wanted ill daughter to come home from Petersburg, 540 Prisoners, 541-42 Political prisoners, 542-44 Women escaping for Confederate lines, 546

Burr, T. A. “A Romance of the Great Rebellion, A Waif of History.” Fire Lands Pioneer ns 1

(1882): 78-91.

From the Philadelphia Press Johnson’s Island, 78ff Heintzelman, September 1864, 78 Plot to destroy a ship and free prisoners, 80 Jubal Early’s delay in advancing on Washington, 81

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Jacob Thompson, 81-83 Dispatches in code, 83 Captured a ship, 84 Arrested for being a spy, 86 Betrayed by a Colonel Johnson, 87 Women arrested and tried as a Confederate spy, 90 Beale and John Wilkes Booth, 91

Documents added as of May 2019

Barkley, A. J. “The Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. Recollections of a Private Soldier.”

Annals of Iowa, series 3, 3 (April 1897): 23-31.

32nd Iowa Infantry Cold, wet, no tents, 24 Stragglers, 24 Heavy skirmish line, 25 Heavy fire severed great limbs, 26 Wounded, 26 Casualties, 27-28 Surgeons and the wounded, 28-29 Amputation, 29 Taken prisoner, 29 Deaths of prisoners, 30 Water, 30 Food, 31

Bartles, William L. “Massacre of Confederates by Osage Indians in 1863.” Transactions Kansas

State Historical Society 8 (1904): 62-66.

9th Kansas Cavalry Humboldt, 62 Raids of Cherokees, 62 Two dead Indians, 63 Massacre of Confederates, mutilation, Osages, 64-66 Belknap, Charles E. “Christmas Day near Savannah in Wartime.” Michigan History 6 (1922):

591-96.

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21st Michigan Infantry Savannah, Christmas, 591ff Music, singing, 592 Soldiers gave food to local women and children, 593 Mules, 593-96

Benson, Solon F. “The Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.” Annals of Iowa series 3, 7 (October

1906): 481-504.

32nd Iowa Infantry, largely a secondary account Kirby Smith and Richard Taylor, 482 Moss Plantation, 484 Mansfield, 485ff General Emory, 487ff Pleasant Hill, 490ff Banks’ army cut in half, 494 32nd Iowa, 495-98 Hospitals at Mansfield, 501 Local people helped the wounded, women, 501-2 Casualties, 503

Bigelow, Edwin B. “Edwin B. Bigelow, A Michigan Sergeant in the Civil War.” Edited by

Frank L. Klement. Michigan History 38 (1954): 193-252.

5th Michigan Cavalry Washington, labor, 200 Saber drill, 201 General Casey, 202 Alcohol, colonel, 205 March, men and horses, 208 Accidental shooting death, lieutenant, 213 Gettysburg campaign, 215-221 Mosby, casualties, 217 Picket duty, 218ff Raccoon Ford, 228 Brandy Station, 231 Buckland, taken prisoner, 232 Belle Isle, 233ff Food and exchange talk, 236 Thanksgiving, 236 Sabbath, swearing, 237 Christmas in prison, 239 Man left to die, 241 Escape from train in North Carolina, fed by slaves, 243

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Recaptured, 244 Camp Vance, near Morganton, N.C., 246ff News of Overland campaign, 248 Sabbath, playing chess, 249 Escape from railroad car, 249 Unionist woman, 251

Bosworth, John S. “The Battle of Atlanta.” Blue and Gray 2 (1893): 236-38.

15th Iowa Infantry Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864 General Walter Q. Gresham, 236 Blackberries, 237 General Giles A. Smith and General Belknap, 237 John A. Logan, casualties, 238

Brown, Edwin Witherby. “Reminiscences of an Ohio Volunteer.” Edited Philip D. Jordan and

Charles M. Thomas. Ohio Historical Quarterly 48 (1939): 304-23.

20th Ohio Infantry Enlistment, 307 Women sewing uniforms, 307 Departure of troops, women, 308 Steamboat, 309-10 Shiloh, 310-13 People flock to Shiloh after battle to help wounded and make money, 213-14 Gambling, 314 Close call, 314-15 Corinth, 315 Typhoid, 315 Water, 316 Slaves coming into Corinth, contraband camp, 316-18 Enrollment of black troops, 317 Slaves, 318 Battle of Hatchie Hills, 318 Anniversary of Shiloh, alcohol, 319-20 Guarding railroad, 320 Women, 321-22 Rape, attacker killed by husband, 321-22 Reenlistment, 322

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Bryant, Thomas J. “The Capture of General Marmaduke by James Dunlavy, An Iowa Private

Cavalryman.” Iowa Journal of History 11 (1913): 248-57.

3rd Iowa Cavalry James Dunlavy, 248ff Captured Confederate General John S. Marmaduke, 250 Battle of Mine Creek, Osage Kansas, 250 Glad to be captured by Iowa rather than Kansas soldiers, 253

Bussey, Cyrus. “The Battle of Athens, Missouri.” Annals of Iowa series 3, 5 (1901): 81-92.

3rd Iowa Cavalry On governor Kirkwood’s staff, 81 Defense of Iowa, 81- Fremont, 82-83 Seizure of arms, 84 Cavalry for home guard duties, 84ff Battle of Athens, Missouri, 85ff Fremont, 88 Correspondence with Governor Kirkwood, 89-92

Byers, S. M. H. “The Battle of Iuka.” Iowa Historical Record 3 (1887): 543-52.

5th Iowa Infantry Iuka, 544ff Iowa soldiers in the battle, 545 Rosecrans, 545ff 5th Iowa in the battle, 546-50 Casualties, 551-52

Byers, S. H. H. “The Burning of Columbia.” Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and

Science 30 (March 1882): 255-61.

5th Iowa Infantry Prisoner, fever, Charleston, 255 Prisoners sent to Columbia, 255 Kept outdoors, food, 255-56 Escape attempts, 256 Dogs, 256 Information from slaves,, 256 Wrote song about Sherman’s March, 257 Help from a slave, 258 Confederates flee Columbia, 258 Cotton on fire before Federals arrived, 258

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Wind led to fire spreading, 259 Woman and child and slave nurse, 259-60 Defends Sherman, did not burn the city, 260

Documents Added as of April 2019

Baker, Nathan M. “Extracts from the Diary of Chaplain N. M. Baker, 116th Illinois.” Illinois

Central Magazine 4 (October 1915): 9-18.

116th Illinois Infantry, Chaplain Burned village of Greenville, Mississippi, guerrillas, 9-10 Yazoo battlefield, 10 Vicksburg, 10ff Artillery fire, 10 Chaplain also firing, 10 Under fire, 10-11 Artillery fire, mortar boats, 11 Heat, religious service, 12 Woman in camp, Sanitary Commission, 13 Spider in ear, 13 Forward earthworks, 13-14 Religious meeting, under fire, 14 Religious meeting, charity, 15 Artillery fire, 15 Seriously wounded soldier, 17 Surrender of Vicksburg, 18

Bakewell A. Gordon. “The Luck of the War Game Sometimes Makes Heroes. The Orderly That

was of the Fifth Company Washington Artillery—Shiloh!” Illinois Central Magazine 4

(October 1915): 18-20.

Louisiana, Washington Artillery Fifth Company at Shiloh, 18ff Second day of the battle, 18ff Artillery battle, 19 Saving the guns, 19

Bakewell, A. Gordon. “Reminiscences of Orderly Sergeant of the Fifth company of the

Washington Artillery, C.S. Army, and How He was Saved from Hanging as a Spy by the

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Endorsement pf the Honorable Judah P. Benjamin.” Illinois Central Magazine 3 (August

1914): 22-25.

Louisiana, Washington Artillery Second day of Shiloh, meaning of the battle, 22 Corinth, badly weakened in camp, 24 Accused of being a spy, 24 Atlanta, Governor Joseph E. Brown, Judah Benjamin, 24-25

Banks, Robert W. “The War Letters of Robert E. Banks.” Edited by George C. Osborn. Journal

of Mississippi History 5 (1943): 141-54.

37th Mississippi Infantry Duty, explains need to volunteer to his father, 142 Drill master, 143 Marching, 143 Iuka, 143ff Capture train and prisoners, 145 Ill camp slave, wants war to be over, 145 Officers, 146 Fears effects of winter health, 146 Corinth, 147 Praises his camp slave, Caesar, 147, 151, 152 Earl Van Dorn, 147-48 Joseph E. Johnston, 148 Officers, 148-49 Food and woman at home, 150 Shoes, 151 Clothes, 152 Vicksburg, 153-54

Beckett, R. C. “A Sketch of the Career of Company B, Armistead’s Cavalry Regiment.”

Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society 8 (1904): 33-50.

16th Mississippi Cavalry, Co. B Organization of the company, 33 Desertion by stay at homes, 34 Young Union prisoner, 34 Forest raid into Alabama,, 34-36 Mobile, 36-37 Clothing, 38 Pensacola, General Liddell, 38-41

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Fort Blakely, 41-43 Spanish Fort, 43 Surrender at Gainesville, 44 Last man killed east of the Mississippi, 45-50

Butterfield, Ira. “The Correspondence of Ira Butterfield.” North Dakota Historical Quarterly 3

(1928-29): 129-44.

1st Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery Alcohol, 129 Soldiers life, drill, 129 Artillery duty, 130 Food, 130 Fort Henry and Donelson, 130 Will stay in the army another three years, 132 Starvation in the Confederacy, 132-33 Soldier pay, 133 Cumberland Gap, 132ff Fever, 133 Cincinnati, 135-36 Artillery accident, man lost an arm, 136 Dysentery, 136 Washington’s Birthday, 137 Hospital, 138 Detailed as a nurse, 140 Dead soldier, very ill soldiers, 141

Documents added as of February 2019

Bacon, Cyrus, Jr. “A Michigan Surgeon at Chancellorsville One Hundred Years Ago.” Ediyed

by Frank Whitehouse, Jr. and Walter M. Whitehouse. University of Michigan Medical

Bulletin 29 (November-December 1963): 315-31.

7th Michigan Infantry Marching, 316, 318 Chancellorsville, 317ff Crossing river, 318 Confederates, amputations, 320 Prisoners, soldier pay, 323 Medical officers, stealing, 324 Food, 326 Stonewall Jackson death, 326 Fire and the wounded, 327

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War and God, 330 Wounds, 330

Bacon, Cyrus, Jr. “The Daily Register of Dr. Cyrus Bacon, Jr.: Care of the Wounded at the

Battle of Gettysburg.” Edited by Walter M. Whitehouse and Frank Whitehouse, Jr.

Michigan Academician 8 (Spring 1976): 373-86.

7th Michigan Infantry Gettysburg, 376ff Field Hospital, 377ff Shelter tents, wounded, 378 Uncharitable Pennsylvanians, 378-79 Lemons, 379 Vicksburg, 379 Confederate wounded, 380 Sanitary Commission, Baltimore, 380 Christian Commission, 380 Pyemia, 382 Lincoln, day of thanksgiving, 385

Bacon, James B. “Reminiscences of War Time Service: With the 24th Wisconsin.” Milwaukee

History 14 (No. 2, 1991): 66-69.

24th Wisconsin Infantry, private

Enlistment, 66 Alcohol, whiskey, 67 Food, 67-68 Cooking, 68 Perryville, 68

Baker, Carlos. “A Michigan Artilleryman’s View of the Engagement at Thompson’s Station.”

Edited by William M. Anderson. Michigan History 60 (Winter 1976): 359-66.

18th Ohio Battery, 19th Michigan Infantry Thompson’s Station, 363ff Artillery fire, 363ff

Baldridge, Samuel Coulter. “A Chaplain in the 11th Missouri Infantry.” Edited by Wayne C.

Temple. Lincoln Herald 64 (Summer 1962): 81-88.

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Presbyterian, 11th Missouri Infantry Tracts, religious character of soldiers, 82 Water, 82 Slavery, 82-83 Battle of Iuka, Rosecrans, 83-84 Religious challenges in army, heathen influences, few sermons, 84 Need for books, reading, 84 Food, cooking, prices, 84-85 Corinth, entrenchments, 86

Baldwin, D. B. “Rifle Cannon and Yankees: Captain D. B. Baldwin in the Skirmish at the

Gauley Bridge.” Edited by Donald Brooks Kelley. West Virginia History 24 (July

1963): 352-54.

23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion Hauling cannon up mountains, 353 Firing into Union camp, return artillery fire, 353-54

Baldwin, Frank Dwight. “A Soldier’s Education: Frank Dwight Baldwin’s Civil War

Experience in the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Robert M. Carriker. E.

C. Barksdale Student Lectures 11 (1989/1990): 288-317.

19th Michigan Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Opposed Emancipation Proclamation. 289 Recruiting, 290 Guard duty, 290-91 Taken prisoner, 292 Libby Prison, 293ff Food, roach, 293 Castle Thunder, 294 Prison guards, 294-95 Defending bridge, Wheeler cavalry, 296-97 Foraging, 297-98 Atlanta campaign, 299ff Fraternization, trading, 301-2 Dead soldiers, stench, 303 March to the Sea, 303ff Foraging, paying for a meal with Confederate money, 304-5 Tearing up a South Carolina railroad, 307

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Ball, Thomas A. “’Dear Companion’: Civil War Letters of a Story County Farmer.” Edited by

David B. Danbom. Annals of Iowa 47 (Fall 1984): 537-43.

32nd Iowa Infantry Food, 537 Worries about family at home, pay, 538 Wounded, 539-40 Execution of spy, 540 Free labor, blacks brought home, 540-41 Religion, Christian Commission, 541-42 Jefferson Davis capture, 542

Baltz, John D. “Battle of Ball’s Bluff. Death of Senator E. D. Baker.” United Service series 3

4 (1903): 46-66.

71st Pennsylvania Infantry Ball’s Bluff, 47ff Much material from official reports Colonel Devens, 51-52 Edward D. Baker, 52ff Federal forces outflanked, 58ff Death of Baker, 60 Critical of McClellan and Stone, 62-66

Bancroft, Albert H. “Diary of Albert H. Bancroft, Corporal of Co. B, Eight-Fifth Regiment

N.Y.S.V.” Fifth Annual Report of the New York State Bureau of Military Statistics

(1868): 575-612.

85th New York Infantry, Co. B, Corporal Very brief entries Peninsula campaign, 575ff Skirmishing, casualties, 578 July 4, copperheads, 590 Black soldiers, picket firing, 593 Foraging, chickens, 596

Bandy, William T., Trans. “Civil War Notes of a French Volunteer.” Wisconsin Magazine of

History 45 (Summer 1962): 239-50.

Fremont, 240 Food, 240

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Marching, straggling, western Virginia, 240 Black camp servants, black women, 240-41 Guerrillas, 243-45 HQ, Army of the Potomac, Chancellorsville, Hooker, 247-50

Banks, Joseph. “Memoranda of a Raid Through the Southern States in 1865.” Georgia

Historical Quarterly 26 (September-December 1942): 291-307.

12th Ohio Cavalry End of war raid from Tennessee into North Carolina Destruction of Confederate government property, 297 Sherman-Johnston armistice, 299 Lincoln assassination, 300-1 Execution, rape, black man, 304-5

Banks, Robert W. "Civil War Letters of Robert W. Banks: Atlanta Campaign." Edited by

George C. Osborn. Georgia Historical Quarterly 27 (June 1943): 208-16.

Sherman, Johnston, Army of Tennessee, Atlanta, 211 Hospital, operation, 212 Joseph Brown, militia, 213 Hood and Johnston, 215-16

Barnard, Daniel Paddlock, Jr. “A Union Officer’s Diary of Appomattox Campaign.: Civil War

Times Illustrated 1 (June 1962): 22-23.

139th New York Infantry In pursue of Confederates Generals sitting around a fire, 23 Appomattox, 23 General Ord, 23

Barnes, Ruffin. “The Confederate Letters of Ruffin Barnes of Wilson County.” Edited by Hugh

Buckner Johnston, Jr. North Carolina Historical Review 31 (January 1954): 75-99.

43rd North Carolina Infantry Morale optimistic about whipping the Yankees, 80 Gettysburg campaign, 80ff Does not think war can last much longer, 81 Wife should not be discouraged, prayers, 84 Overland campaign, 94ff Officer election, 99

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Barksdale, William Henry. “The Reverend William Henry Barksdale.” Edited by Russell

Baker. Phillips County Historical Quarterly 15 (December 1976): 34-46.

Barnes, John Sanford. “The Early Blockade and the Capture of Hatteras Ports, From the Journal

of John Sanford Barnes, July 19 to September 1, 1861.” Edited by John D. Hayes and

Lillian O’Brien. New York Historical Society Quarterly 46 (January 1962): 61-85.

Naval officer Wabash, 65ff Blockading duty, 65ff Privateers and considers blockade a farce, 66 Bull Run, 67-68 Collision at sea, 68 Privateer and blockade runner captured, 68-69 Wabash nearly runs aground, Cape Fear, 71 Cape Hatteras, 76ff Trying to tow the Cumberland, 76-77 Emphasizes bad equipment and incompetence, 80 et passim Artillery fire, 84 Commodore Horton Stringham, Benjamin F. Butler, 85

Barnes, John Sanford. “The Battle of Port Royal, S.C. from the Journal of John Sanford Barnes,

October 8 to November 9, 1861.” Edited by John D. Hayes. New York Historical

Society Quarterly 45 (October 1961): 365-95.

Naval officer Wind, accidents, 381-82 Port Royal, Hilton Head, 384ff Burial of Confederates, 392

Barnett, Henry C. "Civil War Recollections." Indiana Magazine of History 38 (March 1942), 61-

76.

Ellsworth, 61 Music, 61-62 Northern reaction to Fort Sumter, 62-63 Conscription, substitutes, 64 Deserters, 65 Hatred of rebels and saw them as an entirely different race, 66-67

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Deaths and rumors, 68-69 Still very critical of Confederates, 70 Wool clothing, 71 Republican and Democrat children, 72-73

Barnett, John Lympus. "Some Civil War letters and Diary of John Lympus Barnett." Edited by

James Barnett. Indiana Magazine of History 37 (June 1941): 162-73.

Co. B, 39th Indiana Infantry Order book, 166 Picket duty, Christmas, 168 Alabama, 169 Fraternization, 170

Barr, Alwyn, ed. “Records of the Confederate Military Commission in San Antonio, July 2-

October 10, 1862.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 70 (July, October 1966, April

1967): 93-109, 289-313, 623-44; 71 (October 1967): 247-78; 73 (July, October 1969):

83-104, 243-74.

Martial law, 94ff Organization and jurisdiction, 98ff Avoiding conscription, acquitted, 100-102 Seditious language against the Confederacy, 102-9 Abolitionist agent, sold abolition literature, free speech, 289-313 Charge of being “disaffected, Yankee, alien enemy, 623-44 Confederate money, volunteer aid committee, legal tender, 247-49, 251-52 Conscription cases, 250 Disloyalty, disparaging Confederate money, 253-60 Disloyalty case, Confederate money, discourage enlistment, 260-71 Disloyalty case, Confederate money, 272 Disloyalty case, beer house gathering of Unionists, 83-90 Disloyalty case, opposition to secession and Confederate government, 91ff Much routine correspondence and orders, 243ff Case of disloyalty, going to Mexico, oath, Germans, 248ff Disloyalty case, war against the Confederacy, 270

Barrow, Henry W. “Civil War Letters of Henry W. Barrow to John W. Fries.” Edited by Marian

H. Blair. North Carolina Historical Review 34 (January 1957): 68-85.

21st North Carolina Infantry Officers, election, 71

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Typhoid fever, 73 Unhealthy camp, disease, water, 74-75 Food, 75 Confederates at Centreville, 78 Overland campaign, Grant, Lee, 81 Confederate capture of Plymouth, North Carolina, 82 Boots, hat, 83-84

Barry, James Buckner. “The Diary of James Buckner Barry, 1860-1862.” Edited by James K.

Greer. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 36 (October 1932): 144-62.

Most entries routine Indians, 147ff Scalps, families killed, 148 Frontier defense, 158 Taking of Federal forts, 160 Confederate commission, 160

Bartlett, Samuel J. “A Union Volunteer with the Mississippi Ram Fleet.” Edited by L. Moody

Simms, Jr. Lincoln Herald 70 (Winter 1968): 189-92.

Bartlett, Samuel J. “A Union Volunteer with the Mississippi Ram Fleet.” Edited by L. Moody

Simms, Jr. Lincoln Herald 70 (Winter 1968): 189-92.

Naval volunteer, Ohio, U.S.S. Monarch Capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, 189 Charles Ellet, 190 Torpedoes, 190 Vicksburg, 190-91

Bartlett, Stephen Chaulker. “The Letters of Stephen Chaulker Bartlett Aboard the U.S.S.

‘Lenapee,’ January to August, 1865.” Edited by Paul Murray and Stephen Russell

Bartlett, Jr. North Carolina Historical Review 33 (January 1956): 66-92.

Assistant Surgeon, Navy Wilmington, Fort Fisher, 70ff Fort Anderson, 74ff Accidental shooting, 81 Wilmington, 83ff Lincoln assassination, Sherman, Johnston, 86

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Bartlett, William C. “An Incident of Fredericksburg.” United Service n.s. 2 (November 1889);

467-71.

Captain, 3rd Infantry, United States Fredericksburg, 467ff Artillery, 468-69 Near miss of men playing cards, 470 Retreat across Rappahannock, 470-71

Bartlett, William Francis. “Debacle at Ball’s Bluff.” Edited by Jon M. Nielson. Civil War

Times Illustrated 14 (January 1976): 24-36.

20th Massachusetts Infantry, Captain Ball’s Bluff, 26ff Officers food, 26 Charles Devens, 29 Edward Baker, 30ff Wounded soldier, 30-31

Bartmess, Jacob W. "Jacob W. Bartmess Civil War Letters," Edited by Donald F. Carmony.

Indiana Magazine of History 52 (March, June 1956): 49-74, 157-86.

Co. C, Eighth Indiana Cavalry (39th Regiment) Murfreesboro, Stones River battlefield, 62-63 Prayer meeting, 66 Copperheads, 67 Confederate deserter, 69 Sabbath, 157-58 Ignorant southerners, 158 Courier line, 159 Chaplain and woman, 165 Home guards, 167 Oliver P. Morton, soldier vote, 169 Knights of the Golden Circle, 170 Wicked men and war, 170, 176 Soldiers and black women, 179

“Batchelor.” “Florida on the Eve of the Civil War as Seen by a Southern Reporter.” Edited by

William Warren Rogers. Florida Historical Quarterly 39 (October 1960): 145-58.

Savannah, 146 Florida, 146ff

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Jacksonville, 147-48 Lake City, 148-49 Tallahassee, 149-53 Wealthy retirees, 152 Capitol, 152 Hotels, 153 St. Marks, 153-54 Madison, railroad, 154- Confederate flag, women, 155

Batts, William. “A Foot Soldier’s Account: Letters of William Batts, 1861-1862.” Georgia

Historical Quarterly 50 (March 1966): 87-100.

Co. A, 11th Georgia Infantry Women and Confederate soldiers, 88 Western Virginia, 90 Wounded, 94, 97

Bausum, Daniel F. "Personal Reminiscences of Sergeant Daniel F. Bausum, Co. K, 48th Regt.

Penna. Vol. Inf., 1861-1865." Schuylkill County Historical Society Publications 4 (No.

3, 1914) 240-49.

Co. K, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Antietam, 242-43 Fredericksburg, 243-44 More Antietam later in articles, pages out of order?

Baxter, Lucy W. “Through the Union Lines into the Confederacy.” South Carolina Historical

Magazine 54 (July 1953): 135-40.

Cross northern lines at the Potomac, 135ff Stop at a rather modest house, 136ff

Beach, Elizabeth Jane. "The Yankees in New Albany: Letter of Elizabeth Jane, July 29, 1864."

Journal of Mississippi History 2 (January 1940): 42-48.

Wealthy family, Sandersville, Mississippi Yankees came, 43ff Guard, 44 Yankees going through the house, 44-45 Slaves left, 46-47

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Beale, Joseph Boggs. "Education of an Artist: The Diary of Joseph Boggs Beale, 1856-1862."

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 97 (October 1973): 485-510.

Election of 1860, 493ff Lincoln, 498 Sumter, 499 Robert Anderson, 500 McClellan, 502

Bean, William G. "A House Divided: The Civil War Letters of a Virginia Family." Virginia

Magazine of History and Biography 59 (October 1951): 397-422.

Yeoman family, Rockbridge County, Virginia Early war, 399 Secession vote, Unionism, 399-401 Marching, 406 Winter, food, cold, furloughs, 406-7 Christmas, 407 Health, duty to country, 409 Mud march, 410 Chancellorsville, 413-14 Diarrhea, 416 Lincoln, McClellan, election of 1864

Beasley, Kate, ed. “Three Civil War Letters.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 3 (Summer 1944):

182-87.

Stephen T. Fair, 2nd Cherokee Regiment Crops, trade, disease, 182-83 Wilson’s Creek, 183-84 Confederate prospects, threats of death, 185 A soldier for duration of the war, duty, 186 European powers, Napoleon III, 186-87

Beaumont, Henry F. “A Letter to Fort Donelson.” Edited by Thomas B. Brumbaugh.

Manuscripts 36 (Winter 1984): 31-37.

Clarksville, Tennessee Slaves, 33 Fort Donelson, 33ff Optimistic about repulsing Federals, 34

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Beauregard, P. G. T. "Drury's Bluff and Petersburg." North American Review 144 (March

1887): 244-60.

Overland campaign, 244ff Drury’s Bluff, 248ff Jefferson Davis, 251-52 Petersburg, 259ff

Bechler, Valentin. “A German Immigrant in the Union Army: Selected Letters of Valentin

Bechler.” Translated and edited by Robert C. Goodell. Journal of American Studies 4

(February 1971): 145-62.

Co. E, 8th New Jersey Infantry Food, alcohol, 151 Soldier life, 151-52 Lincoln, filthy soldiers, 152 Sutler, 152 Music, band, 152-53 Money, 153 Thanksgiving, box, 153 Money for soldier wives, ethnic prejudice, soldier pay, 154 Box, alcohol, 155 Food prices, 155 Letters, 156 Peninsula campaign, 156 Government corruption, money, 157 Diarrhea, 157 Food prices, 157 Letters, 157 McClellan and Richmond, 158 Seven Days, 158 Lincoln, 159 Wounded, hospital, 159 Poor, rich man’s war, 160 1862 elections, 160-61 Abolitionists, McClellan, 161 Hospital, 162

Beck, E. W. H. "Letters of a Civil War Surgeon." Indiana Magazine of History 27 (June 1931):

132-63.

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Surgeon Finances, 132-33 McClellan, 135 Shields, 135-36 McDowell, Pope, 136, 138, Slaves, Jews, 138 Fredericksburg, 139-40 Conscription, 140 Second Bull Run, Pope, 141-43 McClellan, McDowell, 141 Burnside, 143 Antietam, 144-49 Smell, bodies, horses, 150 McClellan, 150 Pope, McDowell, 150 Lincoln, 150-51 Fredericksburg, 151 Hooker and Stoneman, 152 Chancellorsville, 152-53 McClellan, 153 Officers salary, 157 Butler, Grant, 157-58 Overland campaign, 159ff Cavalry raid, 160 Woman prisoner, 161 Petersburg, Crater, 162

Becton, Susan. “Disillusioned with Paradise: A Southern Woman’s Impression of the Rural

North in 1862.” By John A. Hall. Southern Studies (Summer 1986): 203-7.

North Carolina teacher Feels quite along in Pennsylvania, 206 Hard labor of women with slaves, 206-7 Bad effects of labor on men and women, 207

Behan, Charles I. “A Louisiana Soldier Comments on Unionist Sentiment in Eastern

Tennessee.” Edited by L. Moody Simms. Louisiana History 21 (Winter 1980): 92-93.

5th Louisiana Infantry Unionism in East Tennessee, secession election, 92-93

Bell, George. “Diary of George Bell, A Record of Captivity in a Federal Military Prison, 1862.”

Edited by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Georgia Historical Quarterly 22 (June 1938): 169-84.

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Irish Confederate soldier Fort Pulaski, 170ff New York, 172ff Prisoner exchange rumor, 177ff Yankees fear European intervention, 180

Bell, John N. “Diary of Captain John N. Bell at Vicksburg.” Edited by Edwin C. Bearss. Iowa

Journal of History 59 (April 1961): 181-221.

Co. E, 25th Iowa Infantry, Captain Vicksburg campaign, 185ff Plantation, singing Star Spangled Banner, 185 Slaves, looked white, 186 Confederates hang slave, 187 Slaves following Federal troops, 187 Destruction, 187ff Foraging, 188 Black soldiers, 190-91 Cooks, women, one hurrahs for Jefferson Davis, 191 Selling watches, 192 Slave woman killed by pickets, 192 Government policy on slaves explained, 192-93 Barge sinkings, 197 Confederate prisoners, 197 Destruction of homes, 199 Food shortage, 203 Raymond, Mississippi, women, wounded, 204 Foraging, souvenirs, destruction, 205 Mine to blow up Confederate entrenchments, 210-11 Confederates burn gunboat, 214 Woman, wife in camp, 214 Confederate food in Vicksburg, 215 Confederate action at Young’s Point, 216-17 Pemberton, message smuggled in woman’s hair, Confederate deserters, 219 Music, singing, 219 Surrender of Vicksburg, 221

Bell, Mary. “Coping in Confederate Appalachia: Portrait of a Mountain Woman and Her

Community at War.” By John C. Inscoe. North Carolina Historical Review 69 (October

1992): 388-413.

Macon County, North Carolina Soldier enlistments, 393

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Deserter, 393 Conscription, women not making sacrifices, 394-95 Urges husband not to reenlist, 395 Lincoln, 396 Patriotism, 396 Women gunboat fund, 396 Conscription, 396 Concern for husband’s moral character, alcohol, 396-97 Religion, 397 Officers, election, arrest, 397-98 Managing the farm, 401ff Barter, 402 Tenants, 403-404 Slaves, 404-5 Threat of Yankees, women, home guards, 406-7 Slaves, 408

Bennecke, Herman. “German Immigrants at Antietam.” Edited by C. Eugene Miller. Maryland

Historical Magazine 87 (Fall 1992): 309-15.

20th New York Infantry, Captain Narrative poem in German, 311-314 Turner regiment

Benson, William C. "Civil War Diary of William C. Benson." Indiana Magazine of History 23

(September 1927): 333-64.

120th Indiana Infantry Copperheads, 358

Bert, Henry Lawson. "Letters of a Drummer-Boy." Edited by Don Russell. Indiana Magazine

of History 34 (September 1938): 324-339.

47th Indiana Guards ordered to shoot soldiers, 330 Drum duties, 331-32 Election of 1864, Oliver P. Morton, 335 Spanish Fort, 336-37 End of War, slavery, 338

Biddle, William F. "Recollections of McClellan," United Service 11 (May 1894): 460-69.

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Biggert, Florence C. “Some Leaves from a Civil War Diary.” Edited by Harry R. Beck.

Western Pennsylvania Magazine of History 42 (December 1959): 363-82.

15th Pennsylvania Militia Departure for the army, 366 Antietam, 367ff Guard duty, 367-68 Sight of dead soldiers, 368 Food, cheese, 368-69 Boys waving at troops from coal sheds, 370 Gettysburg campaign, 371ff Provost marshal, transportation, 373 Religious services, 374 Funeral, 375 Cooking, 377 Food, hardtack, bread, 378 Soldier theft of buggy, 378 Band, music, 379 Dog, 379

Bilby, Joseph. "Give My Love to All: A Lieutenant's Letters Told the Story of the 3d New

Jersey Infantry." Civil War Times Illustrated 28 (May 1989): 36-43.

Oscar Westlake. Co. A., 3rd New Jersey Infantry Drilling, 38 Antietam campaign, South Mountain, 39 Removal of McClellan, Burnside, 40 Soldier pay, 40 Hooker, 40 Fraternization, money, 42 Overland campaign, 42

Billings, John Shaw. “A Billings Manuscript of Civil War Recollections.” New York City

Public Library Bulletin 69 (May 1965): 307-13.

Evening a hospital boat, August 1864, 309-13 Removal of men from tent hospitals at City Point, 309 Wounded men, 309ff Amputation, 310 Alcohol, 311-12

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Bingham, Robert. “’we saved General Lee’s communications with Richmond.’” Civil War

Times Illustrated 5 (December 1966): 22-25.

44th North Carolina Infantry South Anna River bridge Clash with Pennsylvania troops, 22ff Taken prisoner, 24-25

Bir, Louis. "Remenence of My Army Life." Edited by George P. Clark. Indiana Magazine of

History 101 (March 2005): 15-57.

93rd Indiana Infantry Enlistment, 17 Food, 21-22 Battle of Raymond, 28 Band music, 33 Vicksburg campaign Death of friend, 38

Bird, William. “News from New Bern.” Edited by Lucilla Bird Hutchinson and Cortland Pell

Ayser. Westchester Historian 37 (April 1961): 37-42.

10th Connecticut Infantry Annapolis troops reviews, Burnside, 37 New Bern, 38ff Hospital, 38 Government war policy, 39 Food, cooking, 39 Guard duty, 40 Hospital, 40-41

Bird, William. “Raiding, Recruiting and Retirement.” Westchester Historian 37 (September

1961): 68-74.

10th Connecticut Infantry Fighting at Kinston, Goldsboro Bridge, 68-70 Connecticut Conscript camp, substitutes, 71

Bigelow, Edwin B. “Sergeant Edwin B. Bigelow’s Exciting Adventures.” Edited by Frank L.

Klement. Blue & Gray Magazine 8 (August 1991): 36-38.

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5th Michigan Cavalry Gettysburg, 36-37 Prisoner, Belle Isle, 37 Escape, captured, 37 Prisoner, 38

Bisbee, John E. “Private John E. Bisbee, the 52nd Mass. Volunteers, and the Banks Expedition.”

Historical Journal of Western Massachusetts 3 (Fall 1974): 39-49.

52nd Massachusetts Infantry Enlistment and departure, 39-40 Nathaniel P. Banks, 40ff Sailors, 40 Character of soldiers, theft, 41 Officers, 42 Hatred of Confederates, disillusioned with war, 42 Baton Rouge, hostile population, women, 42 Food, foraging, disease, 43-44 Port Hudson, 44-48

Black, Narcissa L. Erwin. “Two Lives Intertwined on a Tennessee Plantation as Recorded in the

Diary of Narcissa L. Erwin Black.” By Mary Lohrenz. Southern Quarterly 27 (Fall

1988): 72-93.

McNairy County, Tennessee, Plantation mistress Weaving, sewing, textiles, 76ff Wool and cotton cards, 77 Loom, 80 Quilting, 82-83 Slavery, 90-91

Blackburn, J. F. P. “Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly

22 (July, October 1918): 38-77, 143-79.

8th Texas Cavalry Seizure of military property in Texas, Twiggs A. F. Terry, Terry’s Texas Rangers, 41ff Albert Sidney Johnston, 45 Measles, 46-47 Nashville, clashes between soldiers and policy, 47-48 Officers election, 48-49 Picket duty, snow, 49

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Battle at Woodsonville, Kentucky, death Colonel Terry, 49-50 John Hunt Morgan, 51-54 Shiloh, 54-63 Officer election, 64-65 Nathan Bedford Forrest, 65ff Bragg’s Tennessee campaign, 68ff Battle of Perryville, 69-71 Taking shoes off dead Yankees, 70 Cumberland Gap, 71-72 Christmas, 72-73 Stones River, Murfreesboro, 74-75 Chickamauga, 143-144 Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, 144 Alcohol, 146 Joseph Wheeler, 145ff Wounded, 148ff Signed Union parole, 151 Hood retreat from Nashville, 159 Texas Rangers killing off Sherman’s men in South Carolina, 165 Sherman and Hampton, 165-68 Joseph E. Johnston and Hood, 168-69 Battle of Bentonville, 169-71

Blackmore, Bettie Ridley. “Behind the Lines in Middle Tennessee, 1863-1865: The Journal of

Bettie Ridley Blackmore.” Edited by Sarah Ridley Trimble. Tennessee Historical

Quarterly 12 (March 1953): 48-80.

1862 journal burned by Yankees, 49 Her father’s house burned, 50ff Farm stripped of most everything, 51 Death of grandmother, 50 Slave talks of fire, 51 Plundering and stealing, 52 Rosecrans, 53 General Wilder stealing horses, 57 Rosecrans and Bragg, 59 Confederate desertion, 59-60 Guerrillas, bushwhackers, stealing daily, 60 Continued plundering, 62 Slaves fleeing to Yankees, pities them, 63 Teaching school, 63, 70 Depressed by Confederate losses, 63 Chickamauga, 64 Confederate soldiers plundering, 64

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Chattanooga, Missionary ridge, 67 Lincoln, message, amnesty, Richmond press, 67-68 Hanging of Confederate spy, Sam Davis, 68-69 Cold weather, people freezing to death and losing limbs, 69 Conscription, death, God, 70 Grant, 70 Black troops, white officers recruiting slaves, 71 Overland campaign, 72 Atlanta campaign, 72-73 John Hunt Morgan, 73 Rented home burned by Milroy, accused of harboring guerrillas, 74-75 Bettie Blackmore’’s death76-77 Franklin and Nashville, 77-78 Yankees murdering and plundering and inciting slaves, 79 Slaves misbehaving, 79

Blake, Isaac W. “Capture at Port Hudson.” Civil War Times Illustrated 8 (December 1969): 38-

41.

Co. B, 12th Maine Infantry Port Hudson, 38ff Wounded man, 40-41 Taken prisoner, 41

Blake, Joel C. “Letters of Joel C. Blake.” Edited by J. Russell Reaver. Apalachee 5 (1957-62):

5-25.

5th Florida Infantry, Lieutenant Shenandoah Valley, 6 Milk, unionists, 6 Winchester, house of a pious man, 7 Greatly enjoyed letter and news of home, 7-8 Clothes, 8 Box from women, 8-9 Sutler, 10 Lincoln, 11 Camp routine, awol soldiers, 12-13 Confederate taxes, 13 Furloughs, 15 Concerned about Yankees in Florida, 15-16 Swearing by their son, do not whip him too often, influence of slaves, 16 Chancellorsville, 17-23

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Sight of battlefield, 23

Blakeslee, George H. “A Day with John Morgan.” Blue and Gray 5 (1894): 105-6.

129th Illinois Infantry John Hunt Morgan, 105-6 Guarding Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 105-6 Taken prisoner, 105 Morgan forbade his men to take their uniforms, 105 Railroad capture and wreck, 106 Federal cavalry arrives and Morgan’s men scatter, 106

Blakeslee, George H. “In Foro Conscientae.” Blue and Gray 3 (1894): 42-44.

129th Illinois Infantry Defends character of Union soldiers, treatment of women, 42 Atlanta campaign, Kennesaw Mountain, wounded soldier, 79th Ohio, 42-43 Wounded Confederate, dying, religion, 43-44

Bliss, George N. “A Review of Aldie.” Maine Bugle 1 (1894): 123-32. “A Rebuttal to Captain

Bliss’ Review of Aldie, Major Henry C. Hall.” Ibid., 256-62.

1st Rhode Island Cavalry Why Confederate retreated from Aldie, 125ff H. B. McClellan letter, Stuart’s Chief of Staff, 126-28 Frank S. Robertson letter, 130-31 Thomas T. Munford Letter, 131-32 Hall cites Union reports to counter the Confederates ones, 257 General J. Irving Gregg, 257-58

Bliss, George N. “Chaos Still Reigns in This Camp—Letters of Lieutenant George N. Bliss, 1st

New England Cavalry, March-September 1862.” Edited by Edward G. Longacre. Rhode

Island History 36 (February 1977): 14-24.

1st Rhode Island Cavalry (1st New England Cavalry) Diarrhea, 17 Officer, criticism of colonel, 19, 23 Prostitutes, 19 Mud, 19 Smell of dead horses, 20 Henry Wilson, debate on emancipation in Washington, 21 Washington, capitol, 21

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Pornographic picture, 21 Soldier pay, possible mutiny, 23 Lee, Jackson, confidence in McClellan, 24

[Bliss Jesse C.] “Letters from a Veteran of Pea Ridge.” Edited by Paul R. Cooper and Ted R.

Worley. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 6 (Winter 1947): 462-71.

44th Illinois Pea Ridge, 463-64 Coolness going into battle, 463 Food, 464 Buell as a traitor, 466 Rosecrans, 467 Dead Missourians, 467 Stones River, 468-70 Confederate plunder wounded Federals, 470 Chaplain, little preaching in the army, 470

Blocker, Albert B. “The Boy-Bugler of the Third Texas Cavalry: The A. B. Blocker Narrative.”

Edited by Max S. Lake. Military History of Texas and the Southwest 14 (No. 2, No. 3,

No. 4, 1978): 71-92, 147-67, 215-27; 15 (No. 1, 1979): 21-34.

Texas Hunters cavalry company, 3rd Texas Cavalry, Co. A Enlisted in Harrison County, Texas, 73 Texas Hunters flag, woman’s address, 73 Women and food, 74 Reception in Dallas, drill, 75 Officer election, 75-76 Wilson’s Creek, 78-83 Carthage, Missouri, guarding against Jayhawkers, 84 Foraging, 86 Measles, no pagination Building quarters, cabins, no pagination Crossing a river, no pagination Indians, no pagination Christmas, no pagination Casualties, no pagination Winter quarter, no pagination Women, no pagination Pea Ridge, no pagination Earl Van Dorn, casualties, no pagination Quarters, parties, women, 216 General Hogg, 216-17

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Railroad trouble, 218-220 Corinth, 220 Typhoid, 220 Hospital, 222 Nurses, 223 Death of brother, 224-25 Discharges, 22 Underage recruits, 23 Women and hospitality, 24 Refugees, New Orleans, 30-31

[Bloomer, Samuel.] “A Soldier’s Christmas, 1861.” Minnesota History 37 (December 1961):

334.

1st Minnesota Infantry, Christmas

Boone, Benjamin Franklin. “A Letter of Lieutenant Boone, C.S.A.” Edited by Nora Boone

Carlisle. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 3 (Spring 1944): 63-65.

Ben McCulloch, Springfield, 64 Religion, children’s education, 64-65

Booth, George W. “Running the Inland Blockade.” Civil War Times Illustrated 11 (June 1972):

12-19.

Journey to New Orleans, 12ff Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 16 P. G. T. Beauregard, 18-19

Booth, George W. “’We’ve Played Cards and Lost.” Civil War Times Illustrated 11 (January

1973): 17-24.

Shiloh, 17-18 Banks, specie payments, 18-19 Surrender to Federals, 20 Foreign troops, 21 Foreign consuls, 21 John T. Monroe, mayor, money, 21 Farragut, 23

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Boots, E. N. “Civil War Letters of E. N. Boots from New Bern and Plymouth.” Edited by

Wilfred W. Black. North Carolina Historical Review 36 (April 1959): 205-223.

Boots, E. N. “Civil War Letters of E. N. Boots: Virginia 1862.” Edited by Wilfred W. Black.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 69 (April 1961): 194-209.

101st Pennsylvania Monitor and Merrimac, 198 Peninsula campaign, 198ff McClellan, 200 Lowe, balloon, 202 Religion, southern preacher, sermon, 207

Bosbyshell, Oliver Christian. “The Petersburg Mine.” Maine Bugle 3 (1896): 211-23.

48th Pennsylvania Infantry, Major Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, 211ff Petersburg mine, 212ff Tools, ventilation, 214 Marl carvings, souvenirs, 215 Reasons for failure of attack, 219ff

Boswell, William. “Faithful to the End: Letters of Lt. William Boswell, 35th Georgia,” edited

by Terry Lynn Anderson. Military Images 9 (January-February 1998): 14-15.

Co. K, 35th Georgia Infantry Baptized religious conversation, 14-15 Tells wife that he may fall in battle, defense of liberty, 15

Boteler, Alexander Robinson. “At Fredericksburg with Stonewall,” Civil War Times Illustrated

36 (December 1997): 20-22, 78-83.

Member of Congress, aide to Stonewall Jackson Jackson, Fredericksburg, 20 Servant Jim and Old Sorrel, 22, 78, 82-83 John Pelham, 78 Jackson and sleep, 81-82

Bowditch, Charles Pickering. “War Letters of Charles P. Bowditch.” Massachusetts Historical

Society Proceedings 57 (1923-24): 414-95.

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5th Massachusetts Cavalry, 55th Massachusetts Infantry Enlistment, father’s refusal of permission, 414-422 Simon Cameron, 415 Does not want to be conscripted, 418 Father wants him to finish school, 419 Passes, 421 Newbern, 423ff On steamship, 424ff Charleston, 425ff 54th Massachusetts Infantry, 425 Folly Island, Sandbags, 427 Fort Wagner, Death of Robert Gould Shaw, 428 Cooking, camp servant, 428, 432, 437 Artillery fire, 428 Beach, bathing, 428-29 Flies, 429 Food, 429-30 Black troops, Charleston, Carolinas, 430 Soldier pay, black troops, 431 Morris Island, 431ff Firing at Fort Sumter, 433 Typhoid, 434 Marching to a battery over a plank, 434 Confederate artillery fire, 437-39 Blockade runners, 440 Fatigue work by black soldiers, do not dodge shelling like white soldiers, 441 Woman in camp, 441 Soldiers from Battery Wagner buried in front of Gregg, shells tore up area and bodies stank, 441 Song, Year of Jubilo, music, 442 Need volunteers rather than conscripts for Meade’s army, 443 Soldier pay, black troops, 443 Issue of general order against black troops doing menial duties for white troops, 446 Black troops fight each other with sticks, 446 Artillery emplacements, 448 Soldier pay, dissatisfaction over officer appointments, 449-50 Good discipline and drilling, 452-53 General Vogdes, 453 Black cavalry regiment, 453-54 Changes in racial attitudes, 454 Christmas, 456 No fires permitted on outposts, 457 Food stolen, 458-59 Colonel Beecher, sermon, 463 Souvenir of Fort Wagner, 465 Alcohol, 468

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54th Massachusetts, 469 African Americans and reason, 469-70 Turned from cavalry to infantry, 473 City Point, 475ff Court martial, 476 Water, 475-76 Fighting, 480-81 Petersburg, 482ff Picket duty, 483 Artillery fire, 484 Point Lookout, guarding prisoners, 485ff Prisoners, what they make, 486 Food, 487 Court martial, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 488 Resigned commission, 489 Diarrhea, 489-90 Guards, escape attempts, 491 Mobile, Farragut, 492

Bowditch, Charles Pickering. “’We had a very fine Day’: Charles Bowditch Attends Lincoln’s

Inauguration.” Edited by Katherine W. Richardson. Essex Institute Historical

Collections 124 (January 1988): 28-37.

Boat and baggage, 29-30 Washington, 30ff Charles Sumner, 30-31 Charles Francis Adams, House debate, 31 James Dixon, 31 John P. Hale, 33 Abraham and Mary Lincoln, 33, 36 Lincoln inauguration, Roger Taney, Stephen Douglas, 34-37

Bowen, George A. “’Boy’s, Your Work Is Done.” Edited by Edward G. Longacre. New Jersey

History 95 (Summer 1977): 101-109.

12th New Jersey Infantry, Captain Appomattox, 101ff Alcohol, 102-3 Skirmishing, 104 Foraging, 104 Confederates surrendering, 105 Stripping the dead, 105 Meade, 106

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Lee surrender, 106-8 Horse, 108 Lincoln assassination, 109

Bowen, George A., ed. “The Diary of Captain George A. Bowen, 12th Regiment New Jersey

Volunteers.” Valley Forge Journal 2 (June 1985): 176-231.

12th New Jersey Infantry Overland campaign, 176ff Wilderness, 176ff Spotsylvania Courthouse, 184ff Prisoners, 184 Human endurance in battle, 185 Casualties, wounded, 185-86 Black soldiers, 186 Wounded Minnesota Indian, 187 North Anna River, 187-89 Cold Harbor, 189-93 Swearing, 191 Dangerous to get water, 193 Calling for food, 196 Petersburg, 196ff Bravery, burning shell, 197 Entrenchments, 197-98 Heavy artillery regiment melts away under fire, `198 Heat, 200 Marching in heat, straggling, 201 Petersburg mine, 201-2 Ream’s Station, 204ff Sutler, food, 209 Entrenchments, bombproof, 322-12 Fraternization, trade, 212 Fort Sedgwick, Fort Hell, 212 Substitutes, desertion, 214 Christmas, food, 215 Play euchre for turkeys, 215 Southside railroad, 216 Hatcher’s Run, 217ff Officer election, 218 Fall of Richmond, 221-22 Retreat to Appomattox, 222 Alcohol, apple brandy, 223 Farmville, 225 Appomattox, Lee surrender, 226-27 Forage for horses, 228

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Lincoln assassination, 229 Grand Review, Sherman’s army, 229 Mustered out, 230 Review of his service, 230-31

Bowen, Roland E. “’Nothing But Cowards Run’: Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Questions of Life

and Death Made on the Spur of the Moment.” Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil

War Society 50 (April 1995): 42-49.

15th Massachusetts Infantry Reminiscence of Gettysburg, July 2, 44ff Discipline, officer, 44 Nor to run, or be shot, 45 Wounded men, 45

Bowers, Stephen C. "The Civil War Diary of Chaplain Stephen C. Bowers." Indiana Magazine

of History 79 (June 1983): 167-85.

67th Indiana Infantry Religious service, sermon, 171 Deserters, 172 Experience of battle, 176-77 Surrender, 179 Buell, Kentucky, Perryville campaign, 179ff

Bowler, James M. “Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States

Colored Troops.” Edited by Edward G. Longacre. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 40

(Autumn 1981): 235-48.

112th United State Colored Troops Regiment on picket duty and working on fortifications, Little Rock, many snakes, 238 Tent described, 139-40 Black troops, recruiting, 240, 244 Disease, 241 Cooperheads, election of 1864, Lincoln, 242-43 Duty, needs to stay in army, 246 Food prices, 246 Christmas, 248

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Bowman, Ephraim. “Ephraim Bowman, Private in the ‘Laurel Brigade’, C.S.A.” Edited by

Charles E. Wynes. Southern Studies 16 (Spring 1977): 73-79.

12th Virginia Cavalry Shenandoah Valley Food, gaining weight, 74 Clothing, 75 Officer, 75-76 Substitute, 76

Boyce, Charles William. “The Story of Our Flag, How Lost, Found, and Restored.” Maine

Bugle Campaign 5 (1898): 182-89.

28th New York Infantry History of regimental flag, 182ff First volunteer for the war, 182 Cedar Mountain, flag taken, prisoners, 182-84 Return of the flag after the war, 184-89

Boyce, Charles William. “The Story of the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. The First Provost-

Marshal of Harrisonburg, Va.” Blue and Gray (May 1894): 243-48.

28th New York Infantry Banks, Shenandoah Valley, 243ff Provost-Marshal in Harrisonburg, 244ff Guards in town, 244 Allowed widow to retrieve body on dead Confederate, 245-46 John Pope, Cedar Mountain, 246 Captain Bowen treated well as a Confederate prisoner, 247-48 Boyd, Casper W. “Casper W. Boyd, Company I, 15th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A., A Casualty of

the Battle of Cross Keys Virginia, His Last Letters Home.” Alabama Historical

Quarterly 23 (Fall and Winter 1961): 291-99.

Co. I, 15th Alabama Infantry Picket duty in cold, 291 Confederate retreat from Manassas, 292-93 Water, 293-94 Jackson’s Valley campaign, 293ff False reports of fighting, 395 Bible and prayer. 296-97 Woman reports Boyd’s death to his mother, 296-97

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Roster of soldiers from the company killed in battle, 298-99

Boyle, Francis Atherton. “The Prison Diary of Adjutant Francis Atherton Boyle, C.S.A.” Edited

by Mary Lindsay Thornton. North Carolina Historical Review 39 (Winter 1962): 58-84.

First Battalion, North Carolina, Prisoner, Fort Delaware, 59ff Spotsylvania, 59-60 Preaching, Methodist, 61 Prisoners’ property, 61-62 Reading material, 62, 68 Food, 63 Point Lookout vs. Fort Delaware, 63-64 Prison activities, 65 Letters, 65 Prisoner shot, 65 Religious services, 65-66 Sutler, 67 Prisoner exchange, 67-68, 71 Food, 72 Christian association, 72-73 Christmas, 73 Hiding items from the Federals, 74 Food, prices, 76 Hampton Roads, 76 Prisoner exchange, 77 Prisoner food, 80 Worm, eating cats, 80 Lee surrender, 82 Lincoln assassination, effects on prisoners, 82-83

Boynton, James W. “The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron: The Diary of James W.

Boynton.” Edited by Abbott A. Boynton. South Carolina Magazine of History 76 (July

1975): 112-17.

Navy officer, engineer DuPont blockading squadron, 112ff Engine room, 113-14 Pocotaligo Raid, 114

Brackett, Albert Gallatin. “The Battle of Nashville.” United Service 13 (September 1885): 257-

63.

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9th Illinois Cavalry George H. Thomas, 257ff Impressment of horses, 257-58 Ice, 258 Thomas advances, Battle of Nashville, 259ff Confederate prisoners, 259-60 Black troops, 260 Cavalry, 260-62 James Harrison Wilson, 262 John Bell Hood, 263 Brackett, Albert Gallatin. “The Evacuation of New Madrid by the Federals.” United Service n.s.

5 (February 1891): 182-87.

9th Illinois Cavalry Confederates in New Madred, 182 General Thomas A. Davies, 182ff Spies, women, 183 General Samuel R. Curtis, 183ff Investigation of evacuation and destruction of stores, 184-87 General William K. Strong, 187

Brackett, Albert Gallatin. “A Memorable March.” United Service n.s. 4 (October 1890): 336-

41.

9th Illinois Cavalry Samuel R. Curtis, march from Batesville to Helena, Arkansas, 336ff Plantations and slaves, 336 Marching in heat, 337 Foraging, 336ff Runaway slaves, 339 Water, food, 339-230

Brackett, Albert Gallatin. “Operations before the Fall of Atlanta.” United Service n.s. 3

(February 1890): 194-200.

9th Illinois Cavalry Deaths of James B. McPherson, 194-95 Ezra Church, 195-98 John A. Logan, 197 Sleeping, 199

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Braden, Robert F. “Selected Letters of Robert F. Braden, 1861-1863.” Edited by Mrs. William

R. Braden. Indiana History Bulletin 41 (August 1964): 110-21.

26th Indiana Infantry, Captain Sabbath, 111 Rumors, 111 Anxious for a battle, 111 Bible, 112 Chaplain, Methodist, 112 Marching, 112 Chasing Sterling Price in Missouri, 112ff Marching, feet, 113-14 Halleck, furlough, 114 Picket duty, 114 Death from disease, 114-15 Snow, hunting, 115 Food, 115 Women and soldiers’ aid society, 115 Disillusionment with war, 116 Guerrillas, 116 Oliver P. Morton, 117 Reports of whole country filled with Confederates, 117 Conscription, family suffering, 117-18 Prairie Grove, 118-19 Women come onto battlefield for the Confederate dead, 119 Hospitals, 120 Surrender of Vicksburg, 120

Bradford, Moses Jasper. “The Civil War Letters of Moses Jasper Bradford, Phelps County

Confederate and One of the ‘Immortal 600.’” Newsletter of the Phelps County Historical

Society 19 (April 1999): 3-22.

Co. G., 10th Missouri Infantry (Confederate) Missouri State Guard, 4ff Duty, 4, 6, 7 Liberty, slaves, confiscation, 6 Family and duty, 9 Johnson’s Island prison, 10ff Boxes, 10 Food, 10 Point Lookout, 12ff Prisoner exchange, 13 Fort Delaware, 15ff

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Morris, Island, SC, 18 Fort Pulaski, 18-20 Shoes, 19 Death of prisoner, husband, 20

Brady, John J. “Journal of John J. Brady, Color Corporal Twelfth Regiment N.Y.S.V.” Fifth

Annual Reports of the New York State Bureau of Military Statistics (1868): 438-73.

12th New York Infantry, Corporal Uniforms, 438 Women and departure of troops, 438-39 Baltimore, Fort McHenry, 440 Baltimore, military hospital, 441 Relay House, 442 Point of Rocks, 443 Harpers Ferry, 443ff Checking on a disloyal miller, picket firing, 445 Surgeon, prescription, 448 Soldier pay, 449 Salt, 451 Scouting expedition, Confederate prisoners, 451-53 Hospital, 454 Accidental shooting, 454 Jefferson’s Rock, 454-55 Dress parade, 456-57 Winchester, 457-58 Stone thrown through window injuring soldier, 458 Guerrilla captain prisoner, 458-59 Harpers Ferry, Confederate attack, 462-471 Colonel Miles, 463-64 A. P. Hill, 467-68 Prisoner, 468ff

Bragg, Edward S. “General Edward S. Bragg’s Reminiscences.” Edited by J. G. Hargrove.

Wisconsin Magazine of History 33 (March 1950): 281-309.

6th Wisconsin infantry Constitution and slavery, 285 Enlistment, 285-86 South Mountain, Iron Brigade, 286 Antietam, 287-288 Regimental flag, 288

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George H. Thomas, Democrat, 288-89 Bridge, 290-91

Brainard, Orson. “Orson Brainard: A Soldier in the Ranks.” Edited by Wilfred W. Black. Ohio

History 76 (Winter/Spring 1967): 54-72.

51st Ohio Infantry Food, 56 Nashville, 57 Stones River, 58-59 Marching, 62 Target shooting, 63 Atlanta campaign, 64ff Food, 67 Copperheads, 69 Kennesaw Mountain, 69-72

Bratton, J. R. “Letter of a Confederate Surgeon on Sherman’s Occupation of Milledgeville.”

Georgia Historical Quarterly 32 (September 1948): 231-32.

Federal surgeon, Milledgeville, 231-32 Surrendered hospital to Sherman, 231 Alcohol, 231-32 Yankees plunder, including many rich people, 232

Bray, John. “Escape from Richmond.” Civil War Times Illustrated 5 (May 1966): 28-33.

1st New Jersey Cavalry--published in Harper’s in April 1864

Breckinridge, John C. “A Rebel Leader’s Flight in Cuba.” Civil War Times Illustrated 6 (June

1967): 4-10.

Florida, 4-9

Brewster, Jacob De Witt. “From Davenport to Vicksburg: The Odyssey of a Soldier in the Civil

War.” Annals of Iowa 40 (Winter 1971): 494-517.

2nd Iowa Infantry, Captain Francis Herron, 497-98 Fayetteville, Arkansas, 498-502 Drove in Confederate pickets, 499 Prairie Grove, 502-6

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John Schofield, Hamilton Gamble, 506 Vicksburg, 508ff Guerrillas, 509-10 Siege lines, 511ff Milliken’s Bend, black troops, 512-13

Bridges, Richard C. “Letter from Private Richard C. Bridges, C.S.A., 1861-1864.” Edited by

William L. Huettel. Journal of Mississippi History 33 (November 1971): 357-72.

11th Mississippi Infantry Frederick A. P. Barnard, abolitionist, 358 Ball’s Bluff, 360-61 Confederate cause, duty, Lincoln, 361 Morale, 362 Food prices, 362-63 McClellan, 363 Goldsboro, North Carolina, winter quarters, 364 Depredations of Yankee cavalry in Mississippi, 367 Gettysburg, wounded, 368-69 Battle of the Wilderness, wounded, amputation, death, 370-71 Letter from nurse, 370-71

Bright, Jesse D. "Some Letters from Jesse D. Bright to William H. English (1842-1863)."

Indiana Magazine of History 30 (September 1934): 370-92.

Threats of assassination, abolitionist, 385 James Buchanan, expulsion from Senate, 391-92

Bright, Thomas R. “Yankees in Arms: The Civil War as a Personal Experience.” Civil War

History 19 (September 1973): 197-218.

Arthur B. Carpenter, 19th U.S. Infantry Worried that national government could not defend itself, 198 Length of war, 199 Food, 200 Shiloh, dead soldiers, 201 Camp life, 201, 209 Speculators in the North, 202 Slaves and emancipation, 202 Morale, peace, 202 Corruption, 203 Charles Sumner, slavery, emancipation 203 Stones River, 203-4

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Jokes about wounds, 204 Copperheads, 204 Marriage, death, 205 Black soldiers, racism, 205 Fraternization, 207-8 Chattanooga, duty, 207 Chickamauga, 207 Atlanta, 208 Furlough, 208 Copperhead, McClellan, peace plank, election of 1864, 208 John Augustus Wilder, 54th Massachusetts Wounded Confederates, 210 Recruiting black soldiers, 211 Appointed an officer, 212 Cooking, frying, 213 Confederates, slave soldiers, 213 Blacks, slaves know little of the causes or benefits of war, 213 Unionists, black suffrage, 214

Brikerhoff, Arch M. “The Civil Diary of an Iowa Soldier at Vicksburg: The 4th Iowa Infantry at

Vicksburg.” Edited by Edwin C. Bearss. Iowa Journal of History 59 (April 1961): 222-

37.

4th Iowa Infantry Wounded at Chickasaw Bayou, 224 Sutlers, food, 226 Artillery fire, 227 Artillery fire and slave camp servant, 228 Sharpshooting, 230 Fraternization, 231-32 Artillery fire, digging up cannon balls, 231-32 Artillery fire, 234-35 Fraternization, 235-36 Surrender of Vicksburg, 236

Brinton, Daniel Garrison. “Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton with Army of the Cumberland.” Edited

by D. G. Brinton Thompson. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 90

(October 1966): 466-90.

Surgeon, Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland Railroad trip, 468, 471 Cincinnati, 468-69

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Alcohol, 469 Bridgeport, Alabama, 470-72 Confederates locally have given up, 473-74 Disease, measles, typhoid, 474 Native southerners, clothing, food, women, disease, 475-76 Chattanooga, 476ff Confederate deserters, 480 Food, shortage of vegetables, 480 Medical director, hospitals, 481 Surgeons, wounded, 484 Union woman, Confederate prices, 484 Cleveland, Tennessee, 485 Cold, suffering soldiers, clothing, food, 485-86 Confederate deserters, refugees, 487 Unionist, 487 Officers occupying houses, protects from soldier depredations, 488

Brinton, Daniel Garrison. “From Chancellorsville to Gettysburg, A Doctor’s Diary.” Edited by

D. G. Brinton Thompson. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 89 (July

1965): 292-315.

Surgeon, Eleventh Corps, Army of the Potomac Medical history of the war, 295 Chancellorsville campaign, 297ff Troops marching toward Rappahannock, 298 Routing of Howard and Eleventh Corps, 299-300 Food, 301 Hooker, 301 Religious service, chaplain, 302 Gettysburg campaign, 304ff Marching in heat, 305 Picket lines, 308 Cavalry and a church, 310 Maryland and Pennsylvania described, 310ff Battle of Gettysburg, 312-313 Wounded and dead, 313-14

Briscoe, E. “A Visit to General Butler and the Army of the James.” Fraser’s Magazine of Town

and Country 71 (April 1865): 434-48.

Benjamin F. Butler, 434ff James River, 434-35 Description of countryside, 436ff

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Earthworks, 437-38 Black soldiers, 438 Butler, Birney, Kautz, 438 Fort Harrison, 439 Dutch Gap Canal, 440 Coffee, alcohol, 441 Confederate prisoners, 441 Grant, 441-42 Confederate deserters, 442-43 Black troops, 443-44 Butler, Jefferson Davis, New Orleans, 444 Oath, 447 Courts martial, 448

Brooks, Noah. “Occupied Beaufort, 1863: A War Correspondent’s View.” Edited by P. J.

Staudenraus. South Carolina Historical Magazine 64 (July 1963): 136-44.

Noah Brooks, Sacramento Daily Union Beaufort descripted, 138ff Churches, 138-39 Confederate refugees, slaves, destruction on plantations,139-40 Black soldiers, 1st South Carolina Regiment, Higginson, 141-42 Plantation and northern owners, 142-44 Military occupation and government, 144

Brooks, Noah. “A War Correspondent’s View of St. Augustine and Fernandina: 1863.” Edited

by P. J. Staudenraus. Florida Historical Quarterly 41 (July 1962): 60-65.

St. Augustine, impact of war, garrison, Hunter, 60-62 Fernandina, Yulee, Fort Clinch, deserted and shabby town, 62-ff Slaves, black regiment, soldiers, 4th South Carolina regiment, 63-64

Brown, Benjamin Balmer. “Civil War Letters.” North Dakota Historical Quarterly 1 (No. 3,

1926/27): 60-71; (No. 4, 1926/27): 61-68.

28th New York Infantry Officers, 61 Picket duty, alcohol, 61-62 Washing clothes, 62 Soldier pay, deserters, 63-64 Tent, winter quarters, 63 Christmas, 66 Gambling, alcohol, 67

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Soldier pay, 67 1862 Valley campaign, 69-70 1862 Valley campaign, 60ff Front Royal, 61-62 Cedar Mountain, wounded, hospital, 63-67

Brown, Joel F. “The Charge of the Heavy Artillery.” Maine Bugle 1 (1894): 3-19. “Corrections

and Additions.” 143-46.

1st Maine Artillery (Heavy) Charge at Petersburg, June 18, 1864, 4ff Jeered at by veteran regiments, 4 General Birney, 7 Casualties in regiment for the entire war, 9ff

Brown, John Henry. “’The Paths of Glory’: The Wartime Diary of Major John Henry Brown.”

Edited by W. J. Lemke. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 15 (Winter 1956): 344-59.

Confederate Major Ben McCulloch, newspaper articles defending him, 344ff Burials, 346 Spies, 348 Pea Ridge, McCulloch’s body, 353ff

Brown, John Henry. “Wartime Diary in Northwest Arkansas.” Edited by W. J. Lemke.

Flashback 6 (November 1956): 3-11.

AAG General Henry E. McCulloch Mostly troop movements Printing press, 8 Christmas ball, 10

Brown, Joseph Emerson. “The Governor of Georgia Urges the Secession of Arkansas.” Edited

by Willard E. Wight. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 16 (Summer 1957): 192-202.

Secession, slavery, irrepressible conflict, 194ff Bible, divine sanction for slavery, 185 Black Republican abolitionists, subjugation, extermination, 196 Economic conflict between capital and labor in northern states, 197-98 Unity in South, no class conflict, common interests of slaveholder and white laborer, 198- 99

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Brown, William H. “Soldier of the 92nd Illinois: Letters of William H. Brown and Fiancée.”

Edited by Vivian C. Hopkins. New York City Public Library Bulletin 73 (February

1969): 114-36.

92nd Illinois Infantry Hospital, 117 Furlough, 119-20 Atlanta campaign, 119ff War and duty, 120 Election of 1864, Lincoln, 122 Church service, patriotic sermon, 122 North Carolina campaign, 123ff Dead soldiers, burial, 123-24 Providence and religious faith, 124 Lincoln assassination, Booth, 125-26 Soldier died of fever, 134 Evils of war, 135-36

Brown, William H. “A Union Soldier in Virginia: Commentaries on the Latter Part of the Civil

from Union Lieutenant William H. Brown.” Edited by Daniel A. Metraux. Augusta

Historical Bulletin 51 (2015): 52-57.

39th Massachusetts Infantry Love, marriage, thoughts about last year of the war, 52-53 Andersonville prisoner, 53-54 Petersburg, Grant, Sherman, Confederate prospects, 54-55 Lincoln appearance, 55 Lee surrender, 56 Lincoln assassination, need to punish Jefferson Davis, 56-57 Grand review in Washington, 57

Bruce, Daniel E. "Daniel E. Bruce: Civil War Treasurer." Indiana Magazine of History 33

(June 1957): 187-98.

Bounty, 188 Perryville, 189 Tullahoma, 192

Brunsted, George S. “Letters from a Canadian Recruit in the Union Army.” Edited by Doris

Fleming. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 16 (June 1957): 159-66.

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15th Wisconsin Infantry Soldiering, 162 Disease, 162 Perryville, 163 Terrible sight of dead and wounded, 163

Brush, Seba Bogart. “Business Travel Out of Texas during the Civil War: The Travel Diary of

S. B. Brush, Pioneer Austin Merchant.” Edited by Peyton O. Abbott. Southwestern

Historical Quarterly 96 (October 1992): 259-71.

Merchant Matamoras, 262-64 et passim Havana, 264ff Trade prices, 266

Buchanan, John C. “The Negro as Viewed by a Michigan Civil War Soldier: Letters of John C.

Buchanan.” Edited by George M. Blackburn. Michigan History 47 (March 1963): 75-

84.

8th Michigan Infantry, Captain Slaves in Baltimore, 79 Runaway slave, contraband, 79-80 Slaves in South Carolina, impact of slavery, religion, providence, 80 Cameron, slave soldiers, 81 Beaufort and horrible impact of slavery, 82-83 Slavery is doomed, 83 Black troops, 84

Buchanan, Sophia. “Letters to the Front: A Distaff View of the Civil War.” Michigan History

49 (March 1965): 53-67.

Letter to husband John C. Buchanan, 8th Michigan Infantry Separation, 54 Agonized over reports of battles, 54-55 Remembers departure of husband and regiment, 55 Sin of slavery, 55 1863 elections, Lincoln, Copperheads, 56 Lincoln assassination, Booth, 56 Stonewall Jackson, hang traitors, 56 Antietam campaign, 57

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Removal of McClellan, 57 Burnside, 57 Gettysburg, 57 Love for husband, anniversary, 58-59 Wanted to visit him in camp, 60 Wife’s religious devotion, 62-63 Money for new church, 63

Buckner, Simon Bolivar. “Major General Simon B. Buckner’s Unpublished After-Action Report

on the Battle of Perryville.” Edited by Kenneth A. Hafendorfer. Civil War Regiments 4

(no. 3, 1996): 50-64.

Perryville, much tactical detail, 55-61.

Bumstead, Samuel J. “A Western Volunteer.” United Service 13 (December 1885): 674-83; 14

(January, February 1886): 27-36, 148-55.

108th Illinois Infantry, surgeon Reaction to Fort Sumter in Philadelphia, church, music, 674-75 Enlistment, 675-76 Departure, 676-77 Marching, 678 Mountains, wagons, 679 Unionist women, mother and daughter, song, 680 Bees and honey, 680 Robert J. Breckinridge, 681 Guard duty, pass, 681-83 Surgeon, 27ff Vicksburg, 27ff Christmas, 28 Yazoo River, 28 Wounded soldiers, 28-29 Foraging, 30 Arkansas Post, 30-31 Wounded soldier, 31 Hospital work, 32 Homesickness, food, 32-33 Canal, 33 Smallpox, Memphis, 33-34 Vicksburg, 34-35 Detached service at Vicksburg, surgeon, smallpox,148 Confederate prisoner chopped his own hand off rather than work for Yankees, 148-49

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Burial permits, 149 Mobile, Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, 151ff

Bunten, Sirne. “A Civil War Diary from French Creek: Selections from the Diary of Sirene

Bunten.” Edited by Stephen Cresswell. West Virginia History 48 (1989): 131-41.

Upshur County, West Virginia Death of brother, 132 McClellan, Lincoln, 132 Reading novels, wasting time, 133 Rumors of Confederates coming, 133-34 Sermon, 135 Worries about relative being a traitor, killed, 136 Vicksburg, 136 Gettysburg, 137 July 4, 138 Brother taken prisoner, 138 Confederates ate supper with them, 138 Death of brother, 139 Union soldiers captured at dance, 139 Fall of Richmond, Lee surrender, 139 Lincoln assassination, 140

Burdick, J. M. “The Andersonville Journal of Sergeant J. M. Burdick.” Edited by Ovid L.

Futch. Georgia Historical Quarterly 45 (September 1961): 287-94.

Co. I, 21st New York Cavalry Andersonville Tunnel, 289 Dead prisoners, 289 Parole, exchange rumors, 290 Rain, collapse of stockade, 290

Burdsall, Caleb S., Jr. “McLane’s Battery and Price’s 1864 Invasion: A Letter from Lt. Caleb S.

Burdsal, Jr.” Edited by Bryce A. Suderow. Kansas History 6 (Spring 1983): 29-45.

McLane’s Battery, Colorado Light Artillery, letter published in Rocky Mountain News, November 25, 1864 Sterling Price Battle of Westport

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Burford, Elisha Spruille. “Elisha Spruille Burford, Soldier and Pastor, 1839-1894.” West

Tennessee Historical Society Papers 46 (1992): 103-7.

5th Louisiana Infantry July 4, 103-4 Ambrose Powell Hill, 105 Jefferson Davis, inauguration, 107

Burge, Louisiana. “Louisiana Burge: The Diary of a Confederate College Girl.” Edited by

Richard B. Harwell. Georgia Historical Quarterly 36 (June 1952): 144-63.

College life, 151ff Whooping cough, 151 Georgia secession, 152 Lincoln inaugural address, 153 Fort Sumter, 153, 155 Resentment at not being valedictorian, 154 Ridicules idea of disparaging northern courage, 155 Confidence in Confederate arms, 156 Bull Run, Manassas, 157-58 Washington’s Birthday, Davis inauguration, 159 Subjugation impossible, 159-60

Burges, Samuel Edward. “Diary of Samuel Edward Burges, 1860-1862.” Edited by Thomas W.

Chadwick. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 48 (April, July,

October 1947): 63-75. 141-63, 206-18.

Travelling newspaper collector, Charleston Mercury and farmer Much recording of travels American Revolution monument, Tories, 147 Port collector arrested, 152 Fort Sumter, 154-56 Jefferson Davis, thanksgiving, 159 Slaves shooting livestock, 207

Burke, Curtis R. "Curtis R. Burke's Civil War Journal." Edited by Pamela J. Bennett. Indiana

Magazine of History 65 (December 1969): 283-327; 66 (June, December 1970): 110-72,

318-61; 67 (June 1971): 129-70

John Hunt Morgan’s men, 293

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Whiskey, 293-95 Rosecrans, 293 Prisoners, 293ff Morgan’s raid in Indiana and Ohio, Corydon, 308 Taken prisoner, 326 Morgan’s men, prisoner, 111 Camp Morton, Camp Douglass, sutler, 118 Escape attempt, 144 Food, 154 July 4, 166 Prison, Camp Douglass, 318ff Election of 1864, 329 Religious meeting, 332 Election and exchange, 349 Camp Douglas, prisoner, food, 131 Railroad accident, 154 Lincoln assassination, 155

Burnett, Edmund Cody., ed. “Letters of Three Lightfoot Brothers, 1861-1864.” Georgia

Historical Quarterly 25 (December 1941): 371-400; 26 (March 1942): 65-90.

6th Alabama Infantry Corinth, 390 Routine, 391 Confederate government food, 392 Manassas, 394ff Letters, 399 Picket duty, 68 Ball’s Bluff, 68-69 Seven Pines, 73

Burnett, Edmund Cody, ed. “Some Confederate Letters.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 21 (June

1937): 188-203.

Winfield Scott, 190 Cotton, bonds, planters, 190-92 Lincoln despotism, danger of death and extinction, 191 Divisions in East Tennessee, Unionists ignore southern ministers 193-94 Limits on religious instruction, reading, slave reform, 195, 199 Speculation, corrupt people, religion, providence, 200 Some good signs on military front, 201 Food, military situation in Georgia, Atlanta campaign, 202-3

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Burrage, Henry Sweetser. “The Fifty Years Since, Extract from a Student Diary at Brown, April,

1861.” Brown Alumni Monthly 11 (1911): 221-26.

36th Massachusetts Infantry Government and secession, 222 Charleston, 222 Fort Sumter, 222 Reaction to bombardment of Fort Sumter, 223ff Flag raised over college building, 223 Patriotic address, 223 Raising troops, 224ff Baltimore, 224 Classes dismissed, troop departure, 224 Governor Sprague, 225 Troop review, 225 Washington, Baltimore, 226

Burrage, Henry Sweetser. “The Retreat from Lenoir’s and the Siege of Knoxville.” Atlantic

Monthly 17 (July 1866): 21-32.

36th Massachusetts Infantry Lenoir’s Station, 21 Ninth Corps, Burnside, 21ff Winter quarters, 21 Attack by Longstreet and retreat, 22ff Difficulty in moving artillery, 23 Fighting at Lenoir’s Station, 24 Knoxville, 26ff Dying soldier, chaplain, baptism, 27 Working on entrenchments, 27 Food, 28 Music, 29-30 Attack by Longstreet’s troops, 30ff Burnside speech, 32

Burton, Anthony B. “Lt. Anthony B. Burton’s Account of the Activities of the 5th Battery,

Ohio Light Artillery, at Vicksburg.” Edited by Edwin C. Bearss. Louisiana Studies 10

(Winter 1971): 274-330.

5th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery Horse, theft, 280-81 Vicksburg, 284ff

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Artillery, 286-87 et passim Grant, 288-89 Sharpshooters, 290 Carelessness of 46th Illinois, fires and cooking near the enemy lines, 291 Artillery, Excelsior rifle gun, 293 Ammunition, fuses, 299, 308=9 Wounded man, amputation, 302 Ammunition, 303 Rain, flood, 304 Effects of artillery fire, 307 Grant, appearance, 309 Picket firing and confusion, 312-15 Surrender of Vicksburg, contrast between Union and Confederate soldiers, 321-22 Fraternization, 324 Confederate earthworks described, 324ff Officers and enlisted men in Union and Confederate armies, 326-27 Orderly sergeant, 329-30

Butler, Edward. “Civil War Letter from Paris, Texas, 1861.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 44

(Autumn 1966): 322-24.

Confederate Indian troops, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, interpreter, actually 1863 Stand Watie, skirmishes, 322, 324

Butler, Plummer H. “My First Experiences in Battle, and also the First Engagement of the Fifth

Maine Battery.” Maine Bugle 3 (1896): 223-26.

5th Maine Battery John Pope’s army, 223ff Cedar Mountain, 223ff Artillery, 224ff

Buttolph, John E. “Occupation Duty in Selma.” Civil War Times Illustrated 5 (May 1966): 45-

48.

2nd Iowa Battery Selma, 45ff Drowning of soldiers and citizens, 45 War over, treated citizens gently, 46ff Battle of Nashville, 46-47

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Byers, John Alemeth. “’The Whole World Was Full of Smoke…’ The Civil War Letters of

Private John Alemeth Byers, 17th Mississippi Infantry.” Edited by Hartman McIntosh.

Military Images 9 (May-June 1988): 6-11.

17th Mississippi Infantry Charlottesville, unhealthy soldiers, 6 First Manassas, 6 Ball’s Bluff, 7 Box, clothes, 7 Slave camp servant, 8 Picket firing along Chickahominy, 8 Food, 8 Overland campaign, 9 Petersburg, 9- Food prices, 9 Picket firing, 10 1864 Valley campaign, 10-11 Religion in camp, 10 Death at Cedar Creek, Christian soldier, 11

Byers, S. H. M. “How Men Feel in Battle, Recollections of a Private at Champion Hills.”

Annals of Iowa, series 3, vol. 2 (July 1896): 438-49.

Fifth Iowa Infantry Food, bad conditions, 439 Motivation, adventure, desire for battle, 440 Grant, 440

Byers, S. M. H. "Some War Letters." North American Review 144 (March 1887): 291-97.

Chase to Sherman, October 13, 1861 published in Chase Papers Letter of Admiral Porter about Fort Fisher, January 17, 1865 Grant to Sherman, November 22, 1863 and reply November 23 Everything in article likely in other more citable sources

Byrnes, William. "An Artillery Fight at Short Range." Blue and Gray (Philadelphia) 2 (1893):

160-62.

107th Pennsylvania, Cedar Mountain, artillery,

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