9, 103, 107.

Banks, in United States, capital, 45;
men in control, 47;
banking area, 47;
state banks and Jackson, 78, 79;
expansion of credit, 98;
increase of members, 98;
panic of 1837, 102;
suspend specie payment, 102;
New York laws, 105;
state, 151;
of New York, 189;
of Confederacy, 286.

Banks, N. P., 253, 299.

Baptists, in West, 33;
in South, 143;
and slavery, 143, 163;
increase in membership, 145;
in South, 218;
clergy of high character, 220;
members (1860), 220;
and slavery, 221;
educational institutions, 222.

Barbecues, 209, 212.

Barbour, James, 17.

Baring Brothers of London, and American stocks, 99.

Barry, W. T., Postmaster-General, 58.

Bates, Edward, presidential timber, 257, 262, 263.

Beauregard, General P. G. T., and Fort Sumter, 274, 276, 281;
in battle of Bull Run, 285;
in battle of Shiloh, 294.

Beecher, Henry Ward, 219.

Bell, John, for President, 261.

Belmont, August, 258.

Benton, Thomas H., against Adams, 16;
for preemption law, 16, 60, 65;
against Florida Treaty, 16;
imperialist, 25;
for free homesteads, 27, 30, 32;
Foot Resolution, 60;
land program defeated, 65, 75, 82, 90, 102, 105, 108, 109;
supporting Tyler, 115, 126;
Oregon, 127, 129;
Texas and Oregon, 132, 147, 149, 150;
for commander-in-chief in Mexico, 155;
and California, 175;
and crisis of 1850, 175, 242.

Berrien, John M., Attorney-General, 58.

Biddle, Nicholas, president of Second National Bank, 67, 70;
and Jackson, 77;
policy for Bank, 78;
control of politicians and newspapers, 78;
fighting Jackson and people, 79;
defeated, 82;
policy changed, 83, 112.

Birney, James G., anti-slavery worker, 119, 161.

Black Hawk, 87.

Black Warrior, trouble with Spain, 234.

Blair, Frank P., 58.

Blair, Montgomery, 324.

Bonds, United States, 291, 293;
Confederate in Europe, 293.

Border States, Republican party, 302.

Boston, financial center, 45, 46, 48;
shipping and Hayne, 48;
Transcendental Club, 52;
philosophy and religious reform, 52, 84, 129;
alliance with South, 162, 193, 202, 205;
clergy and slavery, 222.

Bragg, General Braxton, in battle of Shiloh, 294;
in Kentucky, 295, 300;
battle of Murfreesboro, 295;
withdraws to Chattanooga, 295, 303;
reinforced, 307;
beats Rosecrans, 307;
character, 307.

Branch, John, Secretary of the Navy, 58.

Breckinridge, John C., for Vice-