Bermuda Hundred (Virginia), Butler seizes, [339]
Beverly (West Virginia), Confederates retire to, [30]
Big Black River (Mississippi), Grant's victory at, [271]
Birge, H. W., and sharpshooters, [133]
Bixby, Mrs., letter to, [190-191]
Blackburn's Ford (Virginia), McDowell at, [43], [46]
Blair, General F. P., fight for Missouri, [25], [26], [27], [57], [131]; as a general, [261]
Blockade, declared, [16]; effectiveness, [84], [91-92], [113], [244], [280]; blockade-runners, [91-92], [307-08]; on Mississippi, [93]; attempts to break, [308-309], [318]; double line necessary, [308]
Bloody Angle, salient in Spotsylvania action, [348], [344]
Bonham, General M. L., Bull Run, [48]