f mind, 78.

Farragut, Admiral D.G., opens the Mississippi to Vicksburg, 125.

Fessenden, General, his account of the Pleasant Hill battle, 171.

Fish, Hamilton, 261.

Forrest, General, by nature a great soldier, 199;
secret of his success, 200;
his kindly disposition, _ib._

Fort Butler unsuccessfully attacked, 144.

Fort de Russy captured, 155.

Frazier's Farm, 91.

Freedmen's Bureau and Bank, 251.

Fremont routed at Strasburg, 65;
beaten at Cross Keys, 73.

Front Royal captured by Taylor, 53.

Fuller, Captain, improvises a gunboat, 119;
delays Federal advance up the Teche, 121.

Fusilier, Leclerc, his gallantry and munificence, 109.

Gettysburg battle, 230.

Gibson, General R.L., his defense of Spanish Fort, 221.

Governments set up by the military in Southern States, 248.

Grant, General, opposed to advance on Richmond by land, 33;
testimony concerning this point, 34, _note_;
begins operations against Vicksburg, 121;
classed with Marshal Villars and the Duke of Cumberland, 149;
his error at Vicksburg, 149;
his modesty and generosity, 242;
opposed to reconstruction at first, 256;
his part in the election of 1876, 266.

Green, Major-General Thomas, killed, 177.

Gunboats, the terror they at first inspired, 118.

Hancock, Major-General W.S., restores order at New Orleans, 251.

Hardee, Major-General, his modesty, 215.

Hood, Lieutenant-General, his losses at Franklin, 216;
superseded by Taylor, 217;
his army after defeat, _ib._

Horsemen strapped to their steeds, 55.

Ignorance claims its victims, 93.

Immigration, how it determined the events of 1860, 10.

Indianola, iron-clad, passes Vicksburg, 123;
sunk by the Confederates, 125.

"Initiative" and "defensive," 20.

Irishmen as soldiers, 76.

Jackson, General T.J. (Stonewall), his appearance and manner, 49;
his care for the ammunition trains, 56;
routs Banks at Winchester, 59;
his inner nature, 79;
ranked with Nelson and Havelock, 80.

Jerome, Leonard, and the New York "Times," 254.

Johnson, Andrew, 240, 242.

Johnston, General Albert Sidney, his services in the United States
Army, 231;
character, 232;
his death an irreparable loss, 233.

Johnston, General Joseph E., his estrangement from Jefferson Davis, 26;
moves his army to Orange Court House, 35;
services in United States army, _ib._;
a master of logistics, 43;
his neglect of opportunity, _ib._

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