Big Bethel,
battle of, i. 298.
Black, Jeremiah S.,
in Buchanan's cabinet, i. 188;
succeeds Cass in State Department, 198;
after vacillation turns toward coercion, 199, 200;
forces Buchanan to alter reply to South Carolina commissioners, 200.
Black Hawk war, i. 35, 36.
Blaine, James G.,
on purpose of war, ii. [4];