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��connection with St. Albans raid and the attempt to burn New York, 125, 131; his oratory, 126, 127; self-educated, 127; his in- come, 127, 128; success at the English Bar, 128; tributes to, 128, 129, 139; political aspects of his career, 129; his offices in the Con- federate Government, 129, 130; censured by Congress for Roa- noke Island affair, 130; advanced by Davis, 130; contrasted with Cavour, 132; prediction in regard to North America, 133; his hope of European recognition, 133; an admirable man of business, 133, 134; knew how to handle men, 135; his devotion to President Davis, 135, 136; contrasted with Lee, 137; trouble with other gen- erals, 137; personal characteris- tics, 138, 139; his smile, 139, 140; some kindly deeds of, 140; atti- tude towards life, 140, 141; had no religion, 141; buried in Paris with Catholic rites, 141; quick tempered, 142; his "spat" with Davis, 142, 143; fond of games, 144; a lover of good living, 144, 145; aflfectionate toward rela- tives, 145, 146; relations with his wife, 145, 146; contrasted with Lincoln, 146, 147; his real atti- tude towards the Confederacy, 147-149; compares Gladstone and Disraeli, 147; Gilmore's descrip- tion of, 148; of mediocre ability, 150; contrasted with Alexander H. Stephens, 180.

Bigelow, Major John, Jr., 45.

Blaine, J. G., on Benjamin, 128.

Bolles, Robert A., explains why Semmes was not prosecuted, 221; his defense of "the pirate Semmes," 231, 232.

Bragg, General Braxton, superseded by Johnston, 3, 4; Johnston's con- fidence in, 28; his regard for John-

��ston, 29; relations with Long- street, 75, 76.

Brooks, Preston, his assault on Charles Sumner, 194.

Brown, John, capture of, 36.

Buckner, General S. B., letter from Longstreet, quoted, 76.

Bull Run, Johnston in control at, 3; the name "unrefined," 97; a bril- liant victory, 98; Beauregard's book on, 100, 105; contention be- tween Beauregard and Johnston about, 105, 106; two armed mobs at, 252.

Burnside, General Ambrose E., 253.

Burton, Robert, his Anatomy of Mel- ancholy, 160.

Butler, Benjamin F., 128.

Butler, Professor Pierce, biographer of Benjamin, 124, 128.

Byron, Lord, 160, 245.

Cavour, Count, 132, 133.

Chancellorsville, Stuart at, 45, 60.

Chesney, Colonel C. C, his estimate of Johnston, 5.

Chesnut, Mrs. Mary B., 9; quoted in regard to Johnston, 31; on Beauregard's vanity, 102; ex- plains failure of Toombs as Secre- tary of State, 208; sums up career of Toombs, 212, 213.

Cicero, as a pleader, 126; a con- firmed intellectualist, 173.

Clarendon, Earl of, on the Earl of Essex, 26, 27.

Cobb, Howell, letter of Semmes to, 241.

Cocke, General Philip St. George, 219.

Coleridge, Lord, his tribute to Ben- jamin, 128.

Colston, Captain F. M., on Stuart's scrupulousness, 59.

Cone, Judge, his affair with Alexan- der H. Stephens, 175.

Cooke, Major Giles P., Beaure- gard's aide, iii.

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