announces fall of; effect of victory; Sherman's headquarters; last action near _Atlanta_, Confederate ram captured by _Weehawken_ Averell, W. D., cavalry leader Bailey, Colonel Joseph Bailey, Captain Theodorus Balloons Baltimore, Secessionists at Fort Sumter; Massachusetts troops mobbed in; Jackson's plan to occupy Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Jackson destroys workshop Banks, General N. P., supersedes General Butler; on the Mississippi (1862); (1863); commands in Shenandoah Valley; in Shenandoah campaign; incapacity; commands Red River Expedition Barrancas Barracks Bartow, General F. S., Bull Run; killed Baton Rouge, Union Arsenal at; Farragut captures; Confederate attack; Union Navy wins way to "Battle above the Clouds," Lookout Mountain Baylor, Captain J. R., proclaims himself Governor of New Mexico Beauregard. General P. G. T., sons at Louisiana Military Academy; and Fort Sumter; on the Potomac; at Bull Run; preparation for Shiloh; battle of Shiloh; Corinth; and Confederate plans; attacks Butler; telegram to Lee; command of troops opposed to Sherman Beauregard, Fort Beaver Dam Creek (Virginia), Porter's front at Mechanicsville Bee, General B. E., Bull Run; killed Bell, Commodore H. H. Belmont (Missouri), Grant attacks Benjamin, J. P., Confederate Secretary of War _Benton_, flagship Bentonville (North Carolina), battle Bering Sea, _Shenandoah_ in Bermuda Hundred (Virginia), Butler seizes Beverly (West Virginia), Confederates retire to Big Black River (Mississippi), Grant's victory at Birge, H. W., and sharpshooters Bixby, Mrs., letter to Blackburn's Ford (Virginia), McDowell at Blair, General F. P., fight for Missouri; as a general Blockade, declared; effectiveness; blockade-runners; on Mississippi; attempts to break; double line necessary Bloody Angle, salient in Spotsylvania action Bonham, General M. L., Bull Run Boonville (Missouri), battle Boston Mountains, Confederates hold Bowling Green (Kentucky), Johnston at; Johnston abandons Brackett, Colonel A. G., quoted Bragg, General Braxton; at Baton Rouge; preparations for Shiloh; succeeds Beauregard; invasion of Kentucky; march on Nashville; sends out Morgan; Chickamauga; Chattanooga; Missionary Ridge Brandy Station (Virginia), cavalry combat at Brentwood (Tennessee), Schofield at Brice's Cross Roads (Mississippi), Forrest defeats Sturgis at Bristoe Station (Virginia), bridge burned _Brooklyn_, fight with _Manassas_; against Fort Morgan Brown, John Brown, J. E., Governor of Georgia Bruinsburg (Louisiana), Grant lands force at Buchanan, Commodore Franklin Buckingham, General C. P., and McClellan Buckner, General S. B., as a general; Fort Donelson; surrender; and Grant Buell, General D. C., commands in West; and Halleck; preparations for Shiloh; battle of Shiloh; commands Army of the Ohio; end of service Buford, John, cavalry leader at Gettysburg Bull Run, First campaign; public clamor for action; disposition of forces;