ACADIAN exiles in Attakapas, 133; Blunders of Confederates in first Rich-
Alabama delegates retire from Charles- Bourbeau Bayou, Confederate success
Alberoni, Abbé, 354. Andersonville Prison, 288. Antietam a drawn battle, 119. Antipathy to the South, 319. Anti-slavery agitation, 2. Army, Confederate, of Virginia moved to Gordonsville, 45.
Ashby, General Turner, during march to Harrisonburg, 84; his death, 87; no disciplinarian, ib.
Attakapas, home of the Acadians, 133.
Boyd, Belle, Confederate spy, 57. Bragg, General B., occupies Pensa- cola, 9; services in United States army, 125; a strong disciplinarian, ib.; invades Kentucky, ib.; his pet- ulance, ib.
Brent, Major J. L., Taylor's chief of artillery, 150; his fertility of re- source, 151.
Brown, Joseph, Governor of Georgia, 282.
Bugeaud's "Maxims,” 41.
Bank of Tennessee, its treasure re- Burton, General, commandant of Fort-
Banks, General N. P., his ignorance and arrogance, 215; retreats to Alex- andria, 242; his army demoralised, 247; his misleading despatches, 175, 177, 190, 196, 229, 239. Baton Rouge, Confederates repulsed, 136.
Bayou des Allemands surprised, 141. Beauregard, General P. G. T., his coolness and courage at Manassas, 14.
Berwick's Bay captured by Confeder- ates, 183; the prisoners and spoil, 185.
Bisland attacked by Federals, 167.
Butler, General B. F., in the Charles- ton Convention, 4; puts a stop to marauding, 142.
Canby, General E. R. S., invests the Mobile forts, 295; the city occupied, 296.
Carpet-baggers, 317.
Cavalry, Confederate, its indiscipline, 70.
Charleston Convention, 3. Civil War, causes of the, 2. Cobb, Howell, and the defences of
Macon, 281; his death, 284. Cold Harbour, battle of, 104.
Collapse of the Confederacy, 308. Confederate Government at Montgom- ery, its vacillation, 8.
Conventions called to repeal secession ordinances, 303; this action punished as rebellion, 304.
Corruption, political and social, 345. Cotton, Confederate gunboat, 155. Courtesy to a wounded prisoner, 196. Creoles of Louisiana not an effete race, 139.
Freedmen's Bureau and Bank, 337. Fremont routed at Strasburg, 78; beaten at Cross Keys, 93. Front Royal captured by Taylor, 61. Fuller, Captain, improvises a gun- boat, 153; delays Federal advance up the Teche, 155.
Fusilier, Leclerc, his gallantry and munificence, 138.
Cushing, Caleb, in the Charleston Con- Gibson, General R. L., his defence of
Davis, Henry Winter, 328.
Davis, Jefferson, his amiability, 20; a prisoner in Fortress Monroe, 331. Disease in the Confederate Army of Virginia, 19.
Diana, gunboat, captured by Confeder- ates, 165.
"District of Louisiana," its military
Dix, General John A., in the Philadel- phia Convention, 341; the "Vicar of Bray" of American politics, 342.
Embezzlement and breach of trust, 360. Engineer service unfits for command, 123.
Ewell, Lieutenant-General R. S., his services in the United States army, 38; his manner and personal ap- pearance, ib.; his absence of mind, 96.
Farragut, Admiral D. G., opens the
Mississippi to Vicksburg, 161. Fessenden, General, his account of the Pleasant Hill battle, 225. Fish, Hamilton, 351. Forrest, General, by nature a great soldier, 265; secret of his success, 266; his kindly disposition, ib. Fort Butler unsuccessfully attacked, 187.
Fort de Russy captured, 202. Frazier's Farm, 114.
Government set up by the military in
Southern States, 333.
Grant, General, opposed to advance on Richmond by land, 33; testi- mony concerning this point, 34, note; begins operations against Vicksburg, 156; classed with Marshal Villars and the Duke of Cumberland, 194; his error at Vicksburg, ib.; his modesty and generosity, 325; opposed to recon- struction at first, 344; his part in the election of 1876, 358. Green, Major-General Thomas, killed, 234. Gunboats, the terror they at first in- spired, 151.
Hancock, Major-General W. S., re- stores order at New Orleans, 338. Hardee, Major-General, his modesty, 287.
Hood, Lieutenant-General, his losses at Franklin, 288; superseded by Taylor, 290; his army after defeat, ib.
Horsemen strapped to their steeds, 63.
Ignorance claims its victims, 116. Immigration, how it determined the events of 1860, 2.
Indianola, ironclad, passes Vicksburg, 158; sunk by the Confederates, 161. "Initiative" and "defensive," 15. Irishmen as soldiers, 93.
Jackson, General T. J. (Stonewall), his appearance and manner, 56; his care for the ammunition-trains, 65; routs Banks at Winchester, 69; his inner nature, 97; ranked with Nel-
son and Havelock, 99.
Mansfield, battle of, 213. Mechanical resources wanting to the South, 269.
Missouri compromise, 2.
Mobile, its defences, 267; occupied by General Canby, 296.
Jerome, Leonard, and the New York Moore, Thomas O., Governor of Lou-
Times,' 343.
Johnson, Andrew, 322.
Johnston, General Albert Sidney, his services in the United States army, 310; character, 311; his death an irreparable loss, 312. Johnston, General Joseph E., his estrangement from Jefferson Davis, 23; moves his army to Orange Court House, 36; services in United States army, 46; a master of logistics, 47; his neglect of op- portunity, ib.
Kellogg, William Pitt, 353. Kentucky, invasion of, 126. "King Cotton" a tyrant, 314. Ku-Klux assassinations, 336.
Labour troubles in the North, 360. Lee, General R. E., his force at open- ing of first Richmond campaign, 106; his strategy commended, ib.; place in Southern history, 120; his mis- takes, 121; his tactics inferior to his strategy, ib.; his surrender pro- claimed to Taylor's army, 297. Lee, General A. L., his account of the battle of Pleasant Hill, 227. Louisiana secedes from the Union, 7; temper of the people, ib.
Morton, Senator, 350.
Mouton, Alexander, president of Lou- isiana Convention, 6; his zeal for the Southern cause, 137. M'Clellan, General George B., as- sumes command of Potomac army, 30; his work as an organiser, 32; his strategy, ib.; his force at begin- ning of Richmond campaign, 106; in battle of Cold Harbour, 107; his topographical knowledge, 108; as a commander, 116; lacked audacity, 119.
M'Dowell, Major-General Irvin, his plan of battle at Manassas, 14. Magruder, General, as a commander, 116.
Malvern Hill, battle of, 114.
Negro slaves, their fidelity, 280.
Office - seeking, the curse of democ- racies, 362.
Pemberton, General, his services in the United States army, 148; his unfitness for independent command, 149; his blunder at Vicksburg, 193. Philadelphia Convention, 340. Pleasant Hill, battle of, 220.
Louisiana Brigade, 95; its losses at Polignac, Prince Charles, 199.
Cold Harbour, 104.
Louisiana, the State Government over- turned, 348-352. Louisiana, Western, its topography
and river-systems, 130.
Malvern Hill battle, 114. Manassas, first battle of, encourages the Confederates, 12; effect at the North, 30.
Pope, General, his incapacity, 118. Port Hudson taken by Federals, 188. Port Republic, Federal repulse, 88-95. Porter, Admiral D. D., ascends Red
River, 202; assists in taking Fort de Russy, ib.; his report on battle of Pleasant Hill, 229; his losses in descending Red River, 243; report on Banks's retreat to Alexandria, 247.
Presidential election of 1876, 357. Provost-marshals, their exactions, 277.
Queen of the West, gunboat, runs the Vicksburg batteries, 156; captured by Confederates, 157.
Stephens, Alexander H., his char- acter, 26; his views concerning mili- tary matters, 27; his tergiversation, ib.; neglect of Jefferson Davis, 28. Stevens, Thaddeus, 327.
Straggling in the Southern army, 36. Strasburg, affair at, 77.
Railroads, inefficiency of the Southern, Sufferings of the people after the war, 269.
Red River opened by the Federals,
176. Richmond, Dean, in the Charleston Convention, 4.
River-systems of Western Louisiana, 130.
Salt mines at Petit Anse, 146. Selma taken by Federals, 293. Seward, W. H., 323.
Seymour, Colonel, killed at Cold Har- bour, 105.
Sheridan, General P. H., in New Or- leans, 353; his course approved by a renegade Democrat, ib. Sherman, General W. T., his way of making war, 258. Shiloh, battle of, 310.
Slavery not the cause of the civil war,
Smith, Lieutenant-General E. Kirby, in command of the "Trans-Missis- sippi Department," 163; his mili- tary record, 164; orders reinforce- ment of Pemberton, 178; his ad- ministration, 199; his anxiety about safety of Shreveport, 232; allows Banks and Porter to escape, 254; compared to Quintilius Varus, 255. South Carolina delegates in Charleston Convention, 4.
Southern leaders after Lee's surrender, 298.
"Southern Outrages," 335.
Sumner, Charles, 329.
Tactical mistakes of Confederate gen- erals, 116.
Taylor, R. (the author), a delegate to Charleston, 3; his efforts to promote harmony, 5; sees war to be inevit- able, 6; commissioned colonel, 10; brigadier, 19; habit of noting topo- graphy and resources of districts, 43; disposition for meeting or making an attack, ib.; his Louisiana brigade, 52; major - general, 116; in com- mand of District of Louisiana, 129; lieutenant-general, 260; supersedes Hood, 290; his army sent into North Carolina, 291; his surren- der, 302; return home, 305; visits Jeff. Davis in Fortress Monroe, 331. Teche country, 133; military opera- tions in, 167, 172.
Tents, useless impedimenta, 42. Toombs, General Robert, takes Geor- gia "home-guards out of their State, 287.
Topography, ignorance of, among Con- federates, 107.
Trans - Mississippi Department," its last hours, 306.
Troopers strapped to their horses, 63; protected by breastplates, ib. Truce concluded between Generals Canby and Taylor, 300. Turenne, anecdote of, 76.
Southrons have no aptitude for march- Universal suffrage, its effects on a peo-
Statesmanship lacking to the Confeder- Valley of Virginia, its opulence, 49; laid waste by General Sheridan, 51.
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