=Arkansas=, State of, joins Confederacy, 200, 204;
  military governor appointed for, 419;
  reconstruction in, 426, 427;
  slavery abolished in, 427;
  slavery in, throttled by public opinion, 473;
  ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

=Armies of the United States=,
  enlistment in, since beginning of the war, 353, 354;
  numbers under Grant’s command, March, 1865, 507;
  reduction of, to peace footing, 527;
  grand review of, 527-529

=Armstrong, Jack=, wrestles with Lincoln, 25

=Arnold, Samuel=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;
  imprisoned, 544

=Atlanta=, Georgia, siege of, July 22 to September 1, 1864, 407

=Atzerodt, George=, in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;
  assigned to murder Andrew Johnson, 535;
  deposits arms in tavern at Surrattsville, 536;
  execution of, 544

=Bailey, Theodorus=, rear-admiral United States navy,
  in expedition against New Orleans, 284

=Bailhache, William H.=, prints Lincoln’s first inaugural, 168

=Baker, Edward D.=, member of Congress, United States senator,
  brevet major-general United States Volunteers, at Springfield,
  Illinois, 52;
  nominated for Congress, 73;
  in Mexican War, 75

=Ball’s Bluff=, Virginia, battle of, October, 21, 1861, 262

=Baltimore=, Maryland, Massachusetts Sixth mobbed in, 193;
  occupied by General Butler, 199;
  threatened by Early, 403;
  funeral honors to Lincoln in, 546

=Bancroft, George=, Secretary of the Navy, historian,
  minister to Prussia, letter to Lincoln, 321

=Banks, Nathaniel P.=, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
  major-general United States Volunteers, in Army of Virginia, 310;
  forces under, for defense of Washington, 317;
  operations against Port Hudson, 382;
  captures Port Hudson, 383, 384;
  reply to Lincoln, 425;
  causes election of State officers in Louisiana, 425, 426;
  opinion of new Louisiana constitution, 426

=Barton, William=, governor of Delaware,
  reply to Lincoln’s call for volunteers, 193

=Bates, Edward=, member of Congress, Attorney-General,
  candidate for presidential nomination, 1860, 144;
  vote for, in Chicago convention, 149;
  tendered cabinet appointment, 163;
  appointed Attorney-General, 182;
  signs cabinet protest, 311;
  rewrites cabinet protest, 312;
  resigns from cabinet, 491

=Beauregard, G.T.=, Confederate general, reduces Fort Sumter, 188-190;
  in command at Manassas Junction, 215;
  understanding with Johnston, 216;
  battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, 226-229;
  council with Johnston and Hardee, 267;
  succeeds to command at Pittsburg Landing, 273;
  losses at Pittsburg Landing, 274;
  evacuates Corinth, 275;
  united with Hood, 409;
  orders Hood to assume offensive, 410;
  interview with Davis and Johnston, 520