=, Jr., member of Congress major-general
United States Volunteers quarrel with Fremont, 236, 487, 488
=Blair, Montgomery=, Postmaster-General,
appointed Postmaster-General, 182;
quarrel with Fremont, 236, 487, 488;
at cabinet meeting, July 22, 1862, 331, 332;
objects to time for issuing emancipation proclamation, 340;
resolution in Republican platform aimed at, 446, 487;
relations with members of the cabinet, 488;
remarks after Early's raid, 488;
retires from cabinet, 489;
works for Lincoln's reelection, 489, 490;
wishes to be chief justice, 490;
declines foreign mission, 490
=Bogue, Captain Vincent=, navigates Sangamon River in
steamer _Talisman_, 27, 28
=Boonville=, Missouri, battle of, June 17, 1861, 214
=Booth, John Wilkes=, personal description of, 534, 535;
scheme to abduct Lincoln, 535;
creates disturbance at Lincoln's second inauguration, 535;
assigns parts in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 535, 536;
final preparations, 536, 537;
shoots the President, 538;
wounds Major Rathbone 538;
escape of, 539;
flight and capture of, 542, 543;
death of, 543;
account at Montreal Bank, 544
=Bragg, Braxton=, Confederate general,
forces Buell back to Louisville, 275, 276;
threatens Louisville, 379;
battle of Perryville, 379;
battle of Murfreesboro, 380;
retreat to Chattanooga, 385;
Chattanooga and Chickamauga, 386-392;
retreats to Dalton, 392;
superseded by Johnston, 395;
his invasion delays reconstruction in Tennessee, 428
=Breckinridge, John C.
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