President, 245;
for President, 261.

Breese, Sidney, friend of Calhoun, 120.

Brinkerhoff, Jacob, and Wilmot Proviso, 169.

Brooks, Preston, assault on Sumner, 245.

Brown, John, in Kansas, 249;
raid into Virginia, 258;
capture and execution, 259.

Brown, Governor, Joseph E., of Georgia, distrusted by Confederates, 309;
opposed to Davis, 312, 324.

Bryant, William Cullen, and New York _Evening Post_, 53;
against Lincoln, 320.

Buchanan, James, Secretary of State, 148;
and Oregon, 149;
for all Mexico, 157;
Minister to England, 234;
Ostend Manifesto, 235;
Democratic nominee for President, 245;
elected, 246;
slights Douglas, 247;
Mexico and Cuba, 247;
Kansas question, 249;
Lecompton Constitution, 253;
Douglas opposes, 253;
opposes Douglas, 256, 265, 268;
and secession, 270.

Buell, Don C., at Louisville, 284;
in battle of Shiloh, 294;
across Tennessee, 294;
opening the Mississippi, 294.

Buena Vista, battle of, 155.

Bull Run, first battle of, 285;
second battle of, 300.

Burnside, Ambrose E., given command of the Army of the Potomac, 303;
loses at Fredericksburg, 303;
resignation, 303.

Business, prosperous in North during Civil War, 292.

Butler, General B. F., 318, 326.

Butler, Pierce, abused by Sumner, 245.

Calhoun, John C., 4, 5;
Nationalist, 5;
Pennsylvania and, 5;
against tariff, 6, 66, 68;
alliance with Jackson, 6;
strong in Virginia, 11, 16;
and Jackson's first Cabinet, 21;
true to West, 30;
powerless against Jackson, 37, 39, 52, 54, 58, 60, 61, 62;
break with Jackson, 63, 64, 67;
and Van Buren, 64, 68;
defied by Clay, 67;
and Bank, 68, 82;
Nullification, 71, 72, 75;
isolated in 1832, 73;
and compromise of 1833, 74;
and Force Bill, 74;
defeated and isolated, 82, 84, 91;
hostile to Jackson, 92;
supporting Van Buren, 94, 108, 112;
for Independent Treasury, 104;
for Texas, 105, 107, 121, 126, 147;
supporting Tyler, 115, 116;
retirement, 117;
and Clay reconciled, 117;
candidacy for President, 117;
on slavery, 119;
character, 119;
Secretary of State, 127;
and Walker, 129;
for Polk, 130;
Texas Treaty, 130;
Presidency promised to, 131, 132;
Unitarian, 143;
and sectionalism, 145;
and Polk, 148;
and Oregon, 149, 150, 152;
and all Mexico, 158;
and abolition agitation, 165;
and compromise of 1850, 176, 178;
demands for slavery, 178;
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