Berry Benson's Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter

Index

Index References to BB are to Berry Benson. Adams, Dock, xxix Adams, Robert, 123, 124, 125, 141, 163 Ainsworth, Harrison, xii Alexandria, Va., 108, 112, 113, 116 Alexandria City Jail (Union prison), 116-18 Alston, Major (Confederate), 28, 74 Antietarn (or Sharpsburg), Battle of, 14, 27 Appomattox River, 190 Appomattox surrender, Ivi, 200, 201 Armstrong, Lieutenant (Confederate), 75, 173 Articles of Peace, xxxvi Atkinson (Confederate prisoner), 123, 125, 127, 141 Augusta, Ga.: BB'sfurlough in, xvii-xix; Ladies Memorial Association of, xxx-xxxi, xlvi; Lost Cause rhetoric and New South of, xxx-xxxiv; race relations in postwar, xxviii-xxx; Reconstruction in, xxvi-xxx; Springfield Baptist Church in, xxviii Augusta Chronicle (newspaper): BB's Civil War articles for, xxxiii, xlix; BB's letters to, xxxv, xli; and editorial on BB's life, xlvii; and Hamburg Riots, xxix-xxx; and Leo Frank case, xli; and mill worker strike, xxxv, xxxvi; and Ponzi Scheme, xliv Augusta Richmond County Historical Society, xlviii Augusta State University's Reese Library, xlviii Bail, James E., 6, 8, 21 Ball, Mr., 167 Baltimore Sun (newspaper), xlii Banner of the South (newspaper), XXX Barnwell,Jno. G.: BB provides funds to, 201-2; BB returns to command of, 176; good character and leadership of, 49, 50; introduction to, 6; releases BB to join Sharpshooters' Corps, 57; wounded in battle, 75 Battalion of Sharpshooters (Confederate): BB's attachment to, 57-61; BB's scouting for, 68-74, 78-82; fighting experienced by, 61-68, 74—75; final defense of Petersburg by, 178-202 205 206 INDEX battles. See Civil War battles Baxter, S. S., 123 Baxter, William E, xxii, 123, 125, 127 Beantown, 107 Beauregard, P.G. T, 39 bedbugs, 120 Beecher, Henry Ward, 136 Bell ("Old Gator"; Confederate soldier), 135,201,202 Belle Plain, 89-90 Benson, Abraham M. "Mat" (BB's father), x, xii, xxvii Benson, Arthur (BB'sson), xxxii, xlvi Benson, Berry Greenwood: Augusta furlough of, xvii-xix; on Augusta occupation and Reconstruction, xxvii-xxx; early years of, x-xiii, Iv; on excitement of battle, 22-24; and Hamburg Riots, xxix; homecoming of, xxvii, 202-3; last shot of, during war, 198; later years and death of, xlii-xlvii; legacy of, ix; and Leo Frank case, xxxviii-xlii; marriage and family life of, xxxii-xxxiii; and New South, xxxi-xxxiv; and postwar cotton mill industry , xxxi-xxxii, xxxiv-xxxvii; postwar publications of, ix, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxvi, xxxiii-xxiv, xxxvii-xxxviii; relationship of, with Blackwood, xliii; reunion of, with Blackwood after escape, 173; scouting missions by, xv-xvi, Iv-lvi, 68-74, 78-82; "South C'lina" nickname given to, 135; unique perspective of, on war, ix-x; war diary kept by, Ivi; as war monument model, ix, Ivii. See also Elmira Prison — fugitive wanderings of: first days of freedom, 151-55; following railroad toward South, 156-59, 160-62; ingenuity during, xxii-xxiii; reunited with Confederate troops, 171-73; sheltered by friends of the Grays, 167; stay with Mosby's men, 168-70; traveling down Susquehanna River, 158-59; traveling near/through Baltimore, 162-66 Benson, Blackwood Ketchum (BB's brother): BB reunited with, 173; early years of, x, xi, xiii; and Hamburg Riots, xxix; homecoming of, 202-3; illness and recovery of, 31, 34; joins Minute Men, Iv, 1;joins Sharpshooters' Corps, 57; during last resistance of war, xxvi, 190, 193, 197-98,201; letter excerpts of, 45-52; liberates new shoes from deserter, 188-89; "Models" membership of, 7; shooting by, 70; shoulder bruise of, 30; war diary kept by, Ivi; war novels written by, xxxiii, Ivii; winter quarter's cabin built by, 176; wounded and sent home (1863), 41-44 Benson, Bradford Harmon(BB's brother), x, xviii, xxvii, 176 Benson, California "Gallic"(BB's sister), x, xviii, xxvii Benson, Charles (BB'sson), ix, xxxii, xlvi, xlvii-xlviii, Ivii Benson, Dorothy Lewis (BB's daughter), xxxii, xlvi, xlviii INDEX 207 Benson, Elizabeth Bradley "Betty" (BB'ssister), x, xviii, xxvii Benson, Ida Jane "Jeanie"(BB's daughter), ix, xxxii-xxxiii, xlv, xlvi, xlvii-xlviii Benson, Jeanie Oliver (BB's wife), xviii, xxxii, xlvi, xlviii, Ivi, 44 Benson, Nancy Harmon(BB's mother), x, xii Benson, Olive (BB's daughter), ix, xxxii, xlvi, xlvii-xlviii Benson, Pauline (BB's daughter), xxxii, xlvi, xlvii Benson, Susan Williams (BB's daughter-in-law), ix, xlvii-xlviii Benson, Zack (BB's cousin), 52, 55,60,61,63,80 Berry Benson's Civil War Book (BB), ix, xiv...