Army of Frontier:  under Blunt, 196; regiments of Indian Home Guards part of, 196; encamps on old battlefield of Pea Ridge, 197; gradual retrogression into Missouri, 219, footnote; District of Kansas to be separated from, 248

Atchison and Pike’s Peak Railway Company:  230

Atrocities:  Pike charged with giving countenance to, 30-31, 31, footnote; degree of Pike’s responsibility for, 32; repudiated by Cherokee National Council, 32-33; become subject of correspondence between opposing generals, 33; charged against Indians at Battle of Wilson’s Creek, 34, footnote; forbidden by Van Dorn, 36; guerrilla, 44; influenced Halleck regarding use of Indian soldiers, 102; at Battle of Newtonia, 195; Blunts army accused of, 248, footnote; Stand Watie’s men commit, 332

Badeau, Adam:  work cited, 96, footnote

Baldwin, A.H:  235, footnote

Bankhead, S.P:  given command of Northern Sub-District of Texas, 286; Steele applies for assistance, 290; fails to appear, 291; dissatisfaction with, 306, footnote

Barren Fork (Okla.):  skirmish on, 312

Bartles, W.L:  237, footnote

Bass’s Texas Cavalry:  276, footnote, 303, footnote, 306, footnote

Bassett, Owen A:  123, footnote

Bates County (Mo.):  58, 304, footnote

Baxter Springs (Kans.):  location, 121, 125, footnote; Weer leaves Salomon and Doubleday at, 121; Indian encampment at, 125, 129; negro regiment sent to, 259, 284; commissary train expected, 291; massacre at, 304

Bayou Bernard:  163-164

Beauregard, Pierre G.T:  devises plans for bringing Van Dorn east, 14, footnote, 34; Hindman takes command under order of, 127, 186, footnote, 190

Belmont (Kansas.):  274, footnote

Benge, Pickens:  132

Benjamin, Judah P:  22, 23, footnote, 24, footnote, 175, footnote

Bennett, Joseph:  269, footnote

Bentonville (Ark.):  29, 216

Big Bend of Arkansas:  73, footnote, 274, footnote

Big Blue Reserve:  235, footnote

Big Hill Camp:  237, footnote

Big Mountain:  148, footnote

Billy Bowlegs:  68, footnote, 108, footnote, 228,
footnote

Biographical Congressional Directory:  work cited, 59, footnote, 70, footnote

Bishop, Albert Webb:  work cited, 219, footnote

Black Beaver Road:  67, footnote

Black Bob:  235, footnote, 236, footnote

Black Bob’s Band:  204; to be distinguished from Absentee Shawnees, 204-205, footnote; lands raided by guerrillas, 205

Black Dog:  263, footnote

Blair, Francis P:  49

Blair, W.B:  290, footnote