B Baldwin, of Virginia, tells of martial law, 84. Barksdale, Ethelbert, of Mississippi, 82, 84-85, 192. Beauregard, General P. G. T., and the surrender of Fort Sumter, 15-24; in Georgia, 148, 149. Benjamin, J. P., signs To Our Constituents, 3; Attorney-General, 27; Secretary of War, 34, 79 (note); Secretary of State, 34, 40; complaints against, 40, 63-64; life and character, 69-71; denounces Napoleon, 144; on extraconstitutional power, 185; attacked by Congress, 195; accepts policy of emancipation, 197. Blair, F. P., plan of reconciliation, 179-180. Blockade, 51, 56, 77, 105. Bocock, T. S., Speaker of House, 156. Bonds, see Finance. Boyce, of South Carolina, argument for peace, 175. Bragg, General Braxton, plan to invade Kentucky, 44; attitude toward press, 59; Davis's confidence in, 69; army conditions under, 96; resigns command, 113-114. Breckinridge, General J. C., Secretary of War, 79 (note). Brown, J. E., Governor of Georgia, on secession, 5, 6-7; on conscription, 65-66, 75-76; opponent of Administration, 145-149; motives, 174 (note). Bull Run, Battle of, see Manassas. Bullock, Captain James, 135-136. Butler, A. P., of South Carolina, 4. C Cabinet, 14-15, 27, 34, 40, 69. Campbell, J. A., Confederate commissioner at Hampton Roads, 180. Canada, Confederate agents in, 126-127. Chancellorsville, 89. Charleston, 15 et seq., 97. Charleston Courier, 18, 21-22, 61-62, 94, 95, 97. Charleston Mercury, describes siege of Sumter, 20; opposes Administration, 33, 39, 43, 61-62, 95, 151, 152, 154; on conscription, 64; on Seddon's appointment, 79; on Impressment Act, 80; on Tax Act, 81; on suspension of habeas corpus, 82-83, 85-86; issue of conduct of war, 89, 90; account of President's visit to Charleston, 97; on peace, 175, 180; doubts upper South, 196; on negro soldiers, 196. Chattanooga, 113. Chestnut, James, 18 (note). Chevalier, Michel, 138. Chickamauga campaign, 96, 113. Clay, C. C., 127. Cobb, Howell, 146, 154-155. Cold Harbor, 126. Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, 152-153. "Confederate Societies," 95. Confederate States, provisional government organized, 10-11; status of belligerent accorded by England, 35; clash with state authority, 38-40; archives threatened, 42; period of elation, 43-44; foreign affairs, 46 et seq.; 130 et seq.; secrecy of government, 59, 60, 65, 66; divided into separate units, 74; impotence of government, 160; anti-war factions in, 165-167; war ended, 202; see also Davis, South. Congress, Confederate, 9-11. Congress, U. S., House committee of thirty-three, 2, 13. Conscription, adopted, 37-38; constitutionality attacked, 39; Pollard's criticism of enforcement, 64; correspondence of Davis and Brown on, 65-66; Rhett's opinion of, 73; opposition to, 75-77; exemptions, 102, 123-124; hiring of substitutes, 103; failure of State and Confederate governments to coöperate, 116, 151; age limits, 122-123. Constitution, Confederate, 10-11. Corinth, 53. Cotton, to solve financial problem, 45-46; necessary to English, 46;