Baltimore, Lord. See Calvert, Sir George. Baltimore, Md., population of, in 1800, II. streets lighted with gas, III. savings banks in, III. riot at opening of Civil War, III. General Butler subdues, III. strike at, IV. fire of 1904, VI. Bank, United States, II. death of the old, birth of the new, III. Andrew Jackson and the, III. Banking, VI. laws regulating, VI. Banks, General, IV. Baptists, favored by Charles II., I. warring with Quakers, I; spread of, II. on war of, II; in the fourth decade, III. Barbary powers, troubles with the, II. Barclay, Commodore, at battle of Lake Erie, II. "Barnburners," III. Barrill, Edward M., VI. Barron, Commodore, II. attacked at Chesapeake Bay, II. Barton, Clara, and the Red Cross Society aid Cuban reconcentrados, V. Bartram, the Quaker botanist, I. "Battle above the Clouds," the, IV. Baume, General II. Beachey, Lincoln, VI. Beauregard, General, before Sumter, III. at Manassas and Bull Run, II. at battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, IV. Beck, Assistant Attorney-General, quoted on trusts, VI. Bell, Alexander G., and the telephone, IV. Bell and Everett, III. Belmont, August, VI. Bemis Heights, battles of, II. Bennington, defence of, II. Benton, III. Bentonville, battle of, IV. Berkeley, Sir William, governor of Virginia, I. New Jersey made over to, I. and Bacon's rebellion, I. proprietary of Carolina, I. Berlin decree, the, II. Bessemer steel, III. in the South, IV. Beveridge, Albert J., VI. Beveridge-Parsons Bill, VI. Tariff Commission Bill, VI. Bicycle, V., VI. Big Bethel, fight at, III. Billeting Act, the, II. Bi-metalism, international, envoys to the powers, V. Birney, James G., his office sacked, III. and the Liberty Party, III. "Blackbeard," I. "Black Friday," IV. Blaine, James G., IV. his campaign for the presidency, IV., V. proposed congress of American nations, VI. Blair, F. P., IV. Blair, Rev. Dr., I. Bleriot, French aviator, VI. Blockade of the southern ports, IV. running, IV. expeditions to aid, IV. Bloody Brook, I. Bobadilla supersedes Columbus, I. Boer war issue in campaign of 1900, V. Booth, John Wilkes, assassinates Lincoln, IV. captured and killed, IV. Boston, I. feeling in, toward bishops, I. streets lighted, I. the massacre at, II. tea party, II. General Gage in, II. population of, in, II. in panic of 1837. III. savings banks in, III. its clearing-house, III. international peace conference at, VI. topics discussed at Peace conference at, VI. foreigners in, VI. Bowdoin, Governor, II. Boxer Rebellion, the, VI. Braddock, Sir Edward, in French and Indian War, I. Bradford, Governor, I. his reply to the Dutch, I. Bragg, General, invades Kentucky, IV. 47; at Stone River, 48, 49, 50; at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, 50-60; his army broken up, 61. Brandywine, battle of, II. Brant, Joseph, II. Breckenridge, his nomination, III. Breed's Hill, II.