Averasborough, North Carolina, battle of.
Badger, George E.,
ex-senator from North Carolina, joins Graham's peace delegation;
mentioned.
Baker, Lawrence S., brigadier general Confederate States Army,
in command of North Carolina militia at Kinston.
Ball, Hon. Flamen,
attorny for Burnside in Vallandigham habeas corpus case.
Ballot,
extension of, to soldiers in the field.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
importance of;
Union forces collected on line of.
Banks, N. P., major general United States Volunteers,
commanding forces in Shenandoah Valley;
defeated by "Stonewall" Jackson;
in charge of defences of Washington.
Barbarism,
tendency of war to make men relapse into;
efforts of officers to curb tendency;
of Union armies exaggerated to keep up war spirit of Southern people.
Barker, C. W., major 12th Ill. cavalry,
in West Virginia
Barlow, Francis C., colonel 61st New York,
desperately wounded at Antietam.