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INDEX OF CONTEXTS. 



Whiting, 34; results of recruiting, 34; statement of 

 Provost-Marshal General, 34 ; hundred days' men, 84 ; 

 instructions issued to enlisting officers, 34 ; recruiting 

 agents to insurrectionary States, 34 ; action of State Gov- 

 ernors, 34 ; letter of Gen. Sherman, 85 ; result, 35 ; en- 

 listment of recruits in Europe charged, 85 ; action of 

 Congress on the subject, 35 ; answer of the Secretary 

 of State, 85 ; colored soldiers put on the same footing as 

 white troops, 36 ; also have the same pay and bounty, 

 36 ; number of colored troops, 86 ; opinions as to their 

 value as soldiers, 36; action of Adjutant-General Thomas, 

 86; desertions, 87; different classes, 87; operations of 

 the Quartermaster's Department, 37 ; hospitals, 87 ; pay 

 of privates, 38 ; Veteran Reserve Corps, 38 ; pensioners, 

 88 ; ordnance made during the year, 88 ; military depart- 

 ments, 38 ; army corps, 89 ; casualties, 89 ; enrolment 

 and draft, 39 ; acts of Congress relative to, 89 ; proceed- 

 ings, 89, 40 ; principles upon which conducted, 40. 

 Army Operations. Position of the Federal forces, 41 ; posi- 

 tion of the enemy, 41 ; congratulatory address of Gen. 

 Grant to his soldiers, 41 ; number of Federal troops in 

 the field, 41 ; number and strength of the Confederates, 

 41,42; earliest movements of 1864, 42 ; letter of Gen. 

 Sherman, 42, 48; his movement from Vicksburg, 43; 

 advance under Gen. McPherson, 43; skirmish at Big 

 Black River, 48 ; preparations of the enemy, 45; letter 

 of Dabney Maury, 45; address of Gov. Watts to the peo- 

 ple, 45; force of Gen. Sherman, 45; address to his trcops 

 and instructions, 45; reaches Meridian, 45 ; destruction 

 of railroads, 45 ; returns to Vicksbnrg, 45 ; failure of 

 Gen. A. J. Smith to meet him, 45 ; march of Gen. Smith 

 from Memphis, 46 ; resistance of the enemy, 46 ; he falls 

 back, 46; picture of his march, 46; pursuit of the 

 enemy, 46 ; successful retreat, 46 ; destruction caused 

 by Gen. Smith's forces, 46. 



Expedition against Tazoo City, 46; results of the 

 movement, 46. 



March of a force from Gen. Johnston to aid in oppos- 

 ing the advance of Sherman upon Meridian, 47 ; counter 

 movement on the part of Gen. Grant at Chattanooga, 

 47 ; advance on Tunnel Hill, 47 ; farther advance nearly 

 to Dalton, 47; resistance of the enemy, 47; Federal 

 force fall back to Tunnel Hill, 47. 



Gen. Gillmore in command of the Department of the 

 South, 47 ; his authority, 47 ; letter of President Lincoln 

 to him, 47 ; proposition of Gen. Gillmore to the War 

 Department, 47 ; his order, 47 ; advance of the expedi- 

 tion, 48 ; Jacksonville, 48 ; advance in the interior, 48 ; 

 capture of property, 48 ; return, 48 ; other orders of 

 Gen. Gillmore to Gen. Seymour, 48 ; skirmish at Gains- 

 ville, 48 ; plans of Gen. Gillmore, 50 ; new advance of 

 Gen. Seymour, 50 ; encounters the enemy at Olustee 

 and is defeated, 50 ; the retreat, 50 ; report of the enemy, 

 50; correspondence between Gen. Seymour and Gen. 

 Fincgan, 50 ; suspension of operations in Florida, 51. 



Concentration of forces at New Orleans, 51 ; plans of 

 Gen. Banks, 51 ; march of Gen. Franklin for Alexandria, 

 61; assembling of a vast fleet at the mouth of Red 

 River, 51 ; embarkation of a force under Gen. Smith to 

 unite with Gen. Banks at Alexandria, 52; arrival at 

 Semmesport, 52; reconnoiesance, 52; march upon and 

 capture of Fort De Russy, 52 ; arrival at Alexandria, 52 ; 

 withdrawal of the enemy, 52 ; arrival of Gen. Banks, 52 ; 

 advance upon and capture of Natchitoches, 52 ; coopera- 

 tion of Gen. Steele in Arkansas expected, 52 ; advance 

 toward Shreveport, 52 ; battle and repulse at Pleasant 

 Hill, 63; losses of the campaign, 54; the captures, 54; 

 advance of Admiral Porter, 54; arrival of Gen. Smith, 

 64; retreat continued to Alexandria. 54 ; dangerous posi- 

 tion of the fleet, 56; extricated by building a dam across 



Red River, 56; how it was done, 56; evacuation of 

 Alexandria, 57 ; city set on flre, 57 ; appalling scenes, 

 57 ; retreat of the fleet and army to the Mississippi, fol- 

 lowed by the enemy, 5S. 



Advance of Gen. Steele to cooperate with Gen. Banks, 

 58 ; concentration of his force, 53 ; force of the enemy, 

 68; advance of Gen. Steele toward Washington, 58; cap- 

 ture of Camden, 58; cooperating movement of Col. Clay- 

 ton, 58; his despatch, 58; position of Gen. Steele after 

 the retreat of Gen, Banks, 08 ; necessary to fall back, 

 5S; operations of the enemy, 58; Steele's supplies cut 

 off, 53; evacuates Camden and retreats, 59; battle at 

 the crossing of Washita River, 59 ; enemy repulsed and 

 the crossing effected, 59 ; safe retreat to Little Rock, 59 ; 

 effects of the withdrawal of troops from Yicksburg for 

 the Red River expedition, 59; movements of the Con- 

 federate Gen. Forrest, 59 ; advance on the Federal posti 

 in West Tennessee and Kentucky, 59; attack on 

 Paducah, 59 ; demand for its surrender, 59 ; reply of 

 Col. Hicks, 60 ; attack on the forts, 60 ; withdrawal of 

 Forrest, 60; his report, 60; attack on Fort Pillow, CO ; 

 its garrison, 60; manner of the attack, 60; operations, 

 60; demand for surrender, 60; reply of Major Bradford, 

 CO ; assault by the enemy and capture of the fort, 61 ; 

 report of an investigating committee of Congress on the 

 scenes which followed, 61 ; statement of the Confederate 

 Linut.-Gen. S. D. Lee, 62 ; report of the enemy, 62 ; 

 advance of a force against Columbus, 62 ; demand for its 

 surrender and refusal of Gen. Buford, 62. 



Operations in North Carolina, 62 ; capture of the Fed- 

 eral post at Bachelor's Creek, 62 ; advance toward New 

 bern, 63; destruction of the gunboat Underwriter, 63; 

 report of Gen. Picket, 63 ; Plymouth, 63 ; how defended, 

 63 ; attack of the enemy, 63 ; destruction of the gun- 

 boats Southfield and Miami by the Albemarle, 63 ; sur- 

 render of Plymouth, 63 ; announcement of Gen. Peck, 

 63 ; report of Gen. Hoke, 65 ; order of Gen. Palmer re- 

 lative to incendiaries, 65. 



Desultory operations in Virginia, 65; capture of train I 

 at New Creek, 65; headquarters of Gen. Meade, 65: 

 position of Lee's army, 65; Gen. Kilpatrick starts for a 

 dash upon Richmond, 65; contemporaneous movements, 

 65; advance of Kilpatrick, 66; detachment under Col. 

 Dahlgren, 66; encounters the enemy, 66; Dahlgren 

 killed, 66 ; address and orders published in the Rich- 

 mond papers, 66. 



Act of Congress creating a Lieut-Generalship, 67; 

 Gen. Grant appointed, 67; address of the President on 

 presenting his commission, 67 ; reply of Grant, 67 ; 

 orders transferring commanders, 67; order of Gen. 

 Grant, 67; order of Secretary of War, reorganizing 

 army corps, 68 ; order of Gen. Meade, 68 ; position of 

 Gen. Grant with the Army of the Potomac, 68. 



Gen. Sherman assumes command, 68; plan of th 

 campaign, 68; his force, 69; topography of Georgia, 69, 

 Atlanta, its position and importance, 69 ; defences, 69 ; 

 table of railroad stations, 71 ; movement to compel Gen. 

 Johnston to evacuate Dalton, 71 ; demonstration in 

 Johnston's front, 71; failure of the flanking movement, 

 71 ; position of Resaca, 71 ; next movement of Sherman, 

 72 ; evacuation of Dalton by Gen. Johnston, 72 ; opera- 

 tions before Resaca, 72; movement of Johnston to turn 

 tho Federal left flank, 72; further operations befora 

 Resaca, 73 ; abandoned by Johnston, 73 ; movements in 

 advance by Gen. Sherman's corps, 73 ; Allatoona Pass, 

 74 ; its position, 74 ; held by Johnston, 74 ; movements 

 of Sherman, 74 ; New Hope Church, 74 ; struggle for its 

 possession, 74 ; abandoned by Johnston, 75 ; results thm 

 far, 75; Kcncsaw Mountain, 75; its importance, 75; 

 force of Gen. Johnston, 75; order of Sherman's advanca 



