Atlanta campaign, strategy, 306; forces and commanders, conditions of contest, 314; Sherman and Johnston, policy of advance and retreat, 315; Federal communication and supplies, 316; New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Sherman and Thomas, 317; progress, 331; Hood displaces Johnston, his attacks, 332; capture of Atlanta, political effect, 337.
Blair, F. P., Sr., and Hampton Roads Conference, 417.
Blair, F. P., Jr., and struggle in Missouri, 26; on pillage in Carolina march, 425.
Blair, Montgomery, and Frémont, 51, 53; and Trent affair, 71; and McClellan, 162164; on Pope, 164; belief in Shermans ability, 164; and Emancipation Proclamation, 174; on Hooker, 208.
Blockade, proclaimed, 20; effect on Southern preparations, 32; effectiveness, 110, 380; and battle of Mobile Bay, 337; importance, 365, 380; and scarcity, 366; development of running, 377, 380; end of running, 414.
Bounties, to volunteers, 291, 300; brokers, jumping, 300302.
Bragg, Braxton, on Shiloh, 106; invasion of Kentucky, 167, 177, 178; Stones River, 199; manuvred out of Tennessee, 292; Chickamauga, 293295; siege of Chattanooga, 294; defeat and retreat, 298, 299.
Bright, John, on newspaper recrimination, 69; on Trent affair, 73, 81; and Emancipation Proclamation, 273, 274.
Bristol, England, and Emancipation Proclamation, 273.
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and Emancipation Proclamation, 275.
Brooks, Phillips, on the war, 341; on hard times, 342; on period of defeat, 346.
Brough, John, on critical financial condition, 360; as war governor, 361.