Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall

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137 Index Adams, George Worthington, 4 Ager guns (Coffee Mills): 31, 121n. 11 Allen’s Farm, 9 Antietam, battle of, 13–14, 41, 61, 97, 102, 120n. 3 Aquia Creek, 61, 63, 64, 77, 81, 85, 90, 124n. 1 Aquia Landing, 14–16, 76, 82, 86, 93, 101, 124n. 1 Army of the Potomac, 9, 13, 32, 41, 67, 79, 85, 100, 122n. 19, 123n. 26, 124n. 1 Army organization during the war, 20–21 Barhamsville, 28 Bartholomew, Jacob (“Jake”), 31, 37, 74, 76, 93, 121n. 10 Belle Plain, 89 Bolivar Heights, 72, 74, 125n. 2, Bonsall, Edward H. (father), 1 Bonsall, Eleanor Crosby Martin (granddaughter ), 114 Bonsall, Ellen (wife), 8, 31, 51, 113, 114, 117n. 7 Bonsall, Lydia (mother), 1 Bonsall, Spencer: African Americans, attitude towards, 11, 27–28, 38; assignment and rank, 60; army life, 8; birth, 1; death, 114; desertion, 109–113; Confederates, attitude towards: 25, 37–38, 42–44, 49–50, 58, 63; and casualty figures, 51; as druggist, 1, 4, 16, 88; early life, 1–2; on field hospital and corps, 73; on illiteracy, 50; illness : 12, 61; in India, 1; injury, 109; on malingerers, 86–87, 105; postwar life in Philadelphia, 113–114; view of the war, 52; in Washington, D.C., 61, 62, 63; women, attitude towards, 8, 30–31, 37, 65, 98 Bonsall, William Martin (“Willie”) (son), 94, 101, 113, 114, 128n. 21 Bull Run (Manassas), battles of, 13; first battle, 53; second battle, 61 Burchfield, J. P., 14, 76, 77, 81, 86–90, 92, 98, 101, 105, 126n. 11 Burnside, Ambrose: 12, 14, 41, 67, 83, 84–85, 100, 126–27n. 13 Camp California, 2, 22 Camp Winfield Scott, 24 Cedar Hill, 32 Chancellorsville, battle of, 100, 103, 106, 108 Charlestown, 61 Cheeseman’s Landing, 29 Christian, John D., 35 Coffee Mill guns. See Ager guns contraband, slaves as, 90, 91, 127n. 15 Cumberland, 29, 31–33 Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 73, 125n. 4 Custis, George Washington Parke, 34, 122n. 15 Custis, Martha, 35 index 138 Despatch Station, 37, 56 Dougherty, Alexander N., 75, 96, 100, 104, 126n. 7 Dukes, George, 42 Dwinelle, Justin, 92, 93, 128n. 20 81st Pennsylvania Volunteers: at Antietam , 61; Bonsall mustered in, 2; at Chancellorsville, 106; at Charlestown , 125n. 2; description and composition of, 19; at Fair Oaks, 51, 53; at Falmouth, 80; at Frayser’s Farm (Glendale, Va.), 124n. 30; at Fredericksburg , 13, 62, 70, 125n. 6; at Gettysburg , 16, 106–108; war record of, 107 Eltham, 28 embalming, practice of, 49, 52, 57, 123n. 24 Fair Oaks, battle of, 8, 9, 10, 19, 46, 51, 53, 72 Fair Oaks Station, 47, 51, 54, 56, 97 Fairy (vessel): 86, 93 Falmouth, 14, 15, 61, 64, 71, 76, 77, 80–81, 82, 83, 88, 91, 95, 108, 126n. 13, 128n. 24, Falmouth Station, 77, 82, 83, 88, 93 Forage Station, 55 Frayser’s Farm, battle of, 9, 107, 124n. 30 Fredericksburg, 12; destruction of, 68; geographical description of, 71; evacuation of, 71 Fredericksburg, battle of: Bonsall in, 62–71; Burnside’s failure at, 85; 81st Pennsylvania losses at, 70, 107, 125n. 6; medical corps effectiveness at, 13–16; Union army’s failure at, 67–68; Union losses at, 12–13, 62; Gaines’ Mill, battle of, 9 Garnet’s House, 42 Gettysburg, battle of, 16–17, 103, 106, 108–9, 112 Glendale, battle of. See Frayser’s Farm, battle of Gray, Charles, 76, 77, 88, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 100, 101, 105, 108 Halleck, Henry Wager, 10 Hammond, William A., 4, 117n. 9 Hancock, Winfield Scott, 75, 83, 87, 98, 100, 102–3, 126n. 9 Harper’s Ferry, 61, 65, 125n. 2 Harris, Ira, 56, 123n. 28 Harrison’s Landing, 10, 73, 125n. 5 Henry, John N., 7 Hoey, Andrew J., 97 Holstein, Anna M., 98, 128–29n. 24 Hooker, Joseph (“Fighting Joe”), 85, 97, 98, 99–100, 106, 108, 121n. 12 hospital fund (Union army), 75, 76 hospital stewards, 2, 4–7 Houston, John, 68–69, 73, 94, 95, 96, 101, 105, 109, 125n. 5 Howard, Oliver Otis, 47, 100, 103, 104, 123n. 23 Invalid Corps, 111–13 James S. Green (vessel), 29, 35, 120n. 8 Johnson, Charles F., 19, 60, 73 Johnston, Joseph E., 9, 10, 46 John Tucker (vessel), 85, 86, 91 Jones, Gordon W., 13, 14, 16 journal, description of, xii, 2, 117n. 7 Knight, Luther M., 75, 126n. 9 index 139 Lacy House, 71, 80 Lee, Horace M. (brother of Robert M.), 47, 49 Lee, Robert E., 9, 12, 34, 46, 67...