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936, 957; treatment of free
blacks, 140; sketches of,
758; U.S. Government
policy toward, 34, 825;
U.S. citizenship for, 81;
see also Black troops;
Freedmen; Slavery
Blaine, James Gillespie, 89,
167
Blair, Charles H., 827
Blair, Francis Preston, 90-91,
554, 820, 850
Blair, Montgomery, 91, 319,
546, 820
Blair family, 91
Blake, Charles Follen, 92, 366
Blake, Homer C, 788
Bledsoe, Albert, 43
Blenker, Louis, 461
Blind River, La., 360
Bliss, Alexander, 41
Blockade, 45, 70, 132, 354,
358, 566, 606, 608, 822,
842; effects of, 75, 250;
legality of, 268, 285, 564;
problems with Great
Britain over, 608, 642,
747; squadrons, 3, 13, 30,
65, 70, 84, 92, 105, 121,
156, 158, 183, 229, 251,
262, 293, 373, 407, 451,
505, 513, 535, 561, 635,
686-87, 764, 784, 796, 800,
811, 832, 858,867, 927,
1028; see also North
Atlantic Blockading
Squadron; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron; Gulf
Blockading Squadron;
East Gulf Blockading
Squadron; West Gulf
Blockading Squadron;
European Squadron
Blockade running, 45, 222,
358, 365, 373, 606, 1014,
1034; vessels, 283, 358,
373, 763, 796, 842, 889;
tactics, 157; captured
vessels, 388, 763, 842;
see also Prize
vessels
Blood, Henry Boyden, 93
Bloody Angle, 341
Bloomfield, Alpheus S., 94
Blow, Henry Taylor, 832
Blue Springs, Tenn.: skirmish
at, 264
Blunt, James G., 471
Blyth, Jonathan, 478
Board of Home Missions, 815
Board of War: (U.S.) proceedings
of (1862), 896
"Boat Signals. U.S. Sloop-of-
War Marion. Gulf Blockading
Squadron," 505
Bolivar Heights, Md.: abandonment
of Federal supplies
at, 351; skirmish at,
990
Bonds; see Confederate
States Government
Bonham, Milledge Luke, 66; as
Governor of South
Carolina, 718
Booth, Edwin: photograph
of, 1064
Booth, John Wilkes: letter of,
413; escape of, 95; death
of, 947; identification
of body of, 615; comments
on, 658; photograph of,
413, 1064; mentioned, 650
Booth, Junius Brutus, and
family, 95
Booth, Lionel F., 96
Booth, Mrs. Lionel F., 96
Border, District of the: (U.S.
Army) 290
Border Regiment; see Texas
troops
303