Acadians, 105.

Bank of Tennessee, its treasure restored, 224.

Banks, General N.P., his ignorance and arrogance, 164;
retreats to Alexandria, 182;
his army demoralized, 187;
his misleading dispatches, 135, 137, 146, 151, 174, 181.

Baton Rouge, Confederates repulsed, 107.

Bayou des Allemands surprised, 111.

Beauregard, General P.G.T., his coolness and courage at Manassas, 19.

Berwick's Bay captured by Confederates, 141;
the prisoners and spoil, 143.

Bisland attacked by Federals, 130.

Blunders of Confederates in first Richmond campaign, 86.

Bourbeau Bayou, Confederate success there, 150.

Boyd, Belle, Confederate spy, 51.

Bragg, General B., occupies Pensacola, 15;
services in United States army, 99;
a strong disciplinarian, 100;
invades Kentucky, _ib._;
his petulance, _ib._

Brent, Major J.L., Taylor's chief of artillery, 117;
his fertility of resource, 118.

Brown, Joseph, Governor of Georgia, 212.

Bugeaud's "Maxims," 39.

Burton, General, commandant of Fortress Monroe, 246.

Butler, General B.F., in the Charleston Convention, 11:
puts a stop to marauding, 112.

Canby, General E.R.S., invests the Mobile forts, 221;
the city occupied, 222.

Carpet-baggers, 236.

Cavalry, Confederate, its indiscipline, 60.

Charleston Convention, 10.

Civil War, causes of the, 9.

Cobb, Howell, and the defenses of Macon, 211;
his death, 213.

Cold Harbor, battle of, 84.

Collapse of the Confederacy, 230.

Confederate government at Montgomery, its vacillation, 15.

Conventions called to repeal secession ordinances, 227;
this action punished as rebellion, 228.

Corruption, political and social, 257.

Cotton, Confederate gunboat, 121.

Courtesy to a wounded prisoner, 151.

Creoles of Louisiana not an effete race, 109.

Cushing, Caleb, in the Charleston Convention, 11.

Davis, Henry Winter, 244.

Davis, Jefferson, his amiability, 24;
a prisoner in Fortress Monroe, 246.

Disease in the Confederate Army of Virginia, 23.

Diana, gunboat, captured by Confederates, 128.

"District of Louisiana," its military resources, 108.

Dix, General John A., in the Philadelphia Convention, 253;
the "Vicar of Bray" of American politics, 253.

Embezzlement and breach of trust, 268.

Engineer service unfits for command, 98.

Ewell, Lieutenant-General R.S., his services in the United States army, 37;
his manner and personal appearance, _ib._;
his absence o