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.
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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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