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INDEX
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abolitionists, 6, 16, 22, 39, 40, 78, 93, 258, 322, 358–59, 370, 423, 428
Adams, Charles Francis, 370–72
Adams, John Quincy, 370
agriculture, 6, 17, 143, 144
aid societies, xii, 227
Alabama, 61, 114, 294, 295, 386
Alabama, CSS, 370
Albany Evening Journal, 116
alcohol, 6, 16, 60, 63, 67, 71, 80, 103, 110, 123, 133, 139, 271, 281, 362, 410
Alexander, George W., 159–60, 165
Alexandria, 64, 89, 122, 249
Alien Enemies Act, 47
American Revolution, 7, 155
amputations, 17, 34, 57, 185, 280, 293
Anaconda Plan, 113
Andersonville, Georgia, 44, 367, 381
Antietam, Battle of, 247–48, 248, 249, 305
Appalachian Mountains, 54
Appomattox River, 383
Arkansas, xi
Armory Band, 129
Army of Northern Virginia, 213
Army of the Cumberland, 278–79
Army of the Potomac, 59, 94, 121, 136, 152, 210, 213, 226, 242, 256, 261, 264, 277, 278, 414
arson, 41
Arthur, Chester A., 418
Articles of War, 53
Ashby, Turner, 54, 190, 191, 200
Atlanta, 284, 379, 386, 421
Atlantic Monthly, 60
Babcock, Lemuel, 406
bacon, 77, 407
bacterial infections, 298
Baker, Hilary, 39
Baker, Lafayette C., 179–80
Ballard House, Richmond, 215–16, 251, 252, 304
balls, 5, 7, 23, 180, 237, 339
Ball’s Bluff, 121, 129
Baltimore, 10, 27, 246, 294, 316, 342
martial law, 316
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 6, 136, 296
Banks, Nathaniel, 190, 203, 205, 218–19, 313
bathing, 90, 113
Battery Martin Scott, 28
Beal, George, 202–3
Beauregard, P. G. T., 5, 19–22, 27, 28, 54, 102, 103, 180, 295, 306
at Bull Run (Manassas), 32, 67–68
encrypted messages to, 27–30, 67–69, 72, 74, 89, 105, 109, 122
Beaver Dam Creek, Battle of, 225–26
bedbugs, 148
Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (Boyd), 392, 404
Belle Isle prison, 311
Benjamin, Judah P., 254, 322, 350
Bentley, Richard, 321
Bermuda, 305, 308
Berret, James G., 26, 115
Bible, 92, 93, 123, 230
Bier, George H. (Captain Henry), 350–53, 374
Bindell, M., 64
black market, 164
blacks, 40, 314
in Bermuda, 308
dialect, 180
education of, 125
free, 40, 124–30, 181, 411
as house servants, 40, 52, 78–79, 82–83, 124–30
as postal workers, 425, 426
in prison, 146–47
Reconstruction and, 425–26
Richmond Underground and, 252–58
role in spying, 52, 73, 83, 124–30, 180–83, 200–202, 227–33, 252–58, 293–94, 306, 341, 380, 382, 405–6
white spies in black disguise, 180–83
See also slavery
Bledsoe, A. G., 80
blockade, 50, 58, 61, 73, 77, 100–101, 101, 102–3, 253, 283, 305–9, 336–37, 349–55, 372, 386, 387
Belle Boyd and, 100–103
Great Britain and, 306–9, 349–55, 356
runners, 100–103, 145, 294, 305–9, 349–55, 356, 375, 378, 387, 388, 403
Blue Ridge Mountains, 4, 54
Bonaparte, Jérôme, 103
bonds, Confederate, 352
bone souvenirs, 265–66, 266
Bonham, Milledge Luke, 28–29
“Bonnie Blue Flag,” 112, 222
Booth, John Wilkes, 100
Borden’s Guard Artillery, 103
Boston, 374, 375, 418
society, 147
Boston, William, 301
Boston Post, 377
Boteler, Alexander, 322, 338
Botts, John Minor, 225, 254
bounty jumpers, 145
Boutelle, Charles O., 327, 329
Bowie, Wat, 180
bowie knives, 99, 103, 162
Bowser, Mary Jane, 79, 82–83, 124–30, 160, 227, 233, 252, 396, 398, 424
escape of, 405–6, 411
as spy in Confederate White House, 126–30, 227–33, 252–58, 287, 293–94, 306, 327, 341, 362, 380, 398, 405
Bowser, Wilson, 79, 228, 230–31
Boyd, Belle, 3, 3, 4–10, 28, 49–56, 96, 98, 419
Battle of Front Royal and, 202–9
blockade running and, 100–103, 349–55, 375
Benjamin Butler and, 316–19
as Confederate spy, 51–56, 96–98, 98, 99–103, 133–40, 187–92, 200–209, 218–23, 250–51, 258–60, 268, 293–300, 312–19, 349–55, 391–93, 402, 421
death of, 423
education of, 7
exiled in Richmond, 251–52, 258–60, 316–19, 349
John Swainston Hammond and, 420–22
handwriting of, 52–53
Samuel Hardinge and, 354–55, 373–79, 391–93, 401–3, 420
impersonators, 421
Stonewall Jackson and, 136–40, 191–92, 206–8, 222–23, 238, 251, 258–60, 268–69, 294–95, 315, 319
Lincoln and, 401–3
memoir of, 392, 404
paramours of, 133–34, 189, 200, 218–19, 250, 294, 314, 373
Pinkerton report on, 220–21
postwar life, 419–23
in prison, 234–41, 246, 250–51, 259, 298–300, 312–15, 403
scar of, 241
stage career, 40, 419, 419, 420, 422
trapped by Union spy, 221–23, 234
travel to Europe, 349–55, 373–80, 419–20
Underground Railroad and, 96–103
Yankee killed by, 8–10, 49–50, 97
Boyd, Benjamin, 33, 56, 298, 299, 315, 316, 319
Boyd, Grace, 419, 421
Boyd, Mary, 9, 10, 49, 96, 133–34, 235–36, 296–99, 319, 391, 393
Boyd House, 259
Brady, Matthew, photograph by, 147
Brazil, 305
bread riots, 283, 283, 284–88, 340
Breckinridge, John C., 74
Bremer, Frederika, 39
bridges, 269, 423
Brinkman, Thomas, 387
British West Indies, 320
Brown, John, 6, 93, 370, 423
Buchanan, James, 23, 26, 145, 236, 377
Buck, Lucy, 235, 296
Bull Run (Manassas), 19, 31–36, 60, 66, 244–46, 265, 295
Confederate intelligence on, 27–30, 53, 66–68, 170, 217
First Battle of, 19, 22, 30–37, 47, 53, 57, 63, 68, 80, 266
Second Battle of, 244–46
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 404
Bumpass, Orville C., 63
Bunker Hill, 258–59
Bureau of Military Information, 328–29, 342, 424
Burke, John, 180
Burnside, Ambrose, 113, 264, 267–68, 278, 328
Butler, Benjamin, 317–17, 317, 318–19, 326–31, 340, 360, 369, 381
Belle Boyd and, 316–19
Elizabeth Van Lew and, 327–31, 343–45, 363–65, 423
Byron, Lord, 373
Calhoun, John C., 23, 145
California, 23, 55, 167
camp followers, 62–63, 139
Camp Lee, 126, 158
Camp Parole, 243, 265, 275
Canada, 15, 17–18, 93, 94, 375, 376, 414, 415
candy, 112–13
Cape Fear, 390
Cape Fear River, 350, 386–89, 413
Capitol, U.S., 11, 13, 64, 71, 143, 144, 246
Caribbean, 100
Carlyle, Thomas, 320–21, 357
Carrington, Eliza, 232, 362, 425
Carroll Prison, 299–300, 312–15, 393
Cashmeyer, Philip, 364–65
Castle Godwin, 158–60, 164, 215
Castle Thunder, 364, 366, 406, 410
cats, 284
cavalry reconnaissance, 328
chamber pots, 113, 316–17
Chancellorsville, Battle of, 293
chaplains, 157, 212
Charleston, xi, 50, 295, 305–6, 311
Charleston Daily Courier, 47
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 313, 322
Cherry, Dr., 134
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 136
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, 300
Chesapeake Bay, 144, 243
Chestnut, James, Jr., 68
Chestnut, Mary, 68, 116, 216
Chicago Tribune, 422
Chickahominy River, 81, 193, 194, 197, 199, 210, 214, 224–26, 342
children
in prison, 141–50, 167–77, 209, 240
role in espionage, 112–13, 122, 228–29
Church Hill mansion, Richmond, 40, 41, 46, 75, 76, 77–83, 124–26, 159–60, 163–64, 227–30, 309–11, 325–27, 361–67, 382–85, 406, 410–12, 426–27, 427, 428–29
secret room, 81–82, 83, 163, 227–29, 311, 325, 346, 348, 366, 412, 426