Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War

Index

189 Index Albany, Kentucky, 27–29 Allen, Fate, 82 American Revolution, 7–8 Anderson, “Bloody” Bill, 10, 147–48 Andersonville Prison, 2, 133 Appalachian highlands, 6–8; Albany, Ky., 27–32; Clinton County, Ky., 12–13, 21–22, 27, 31; family divisions, 1–2, 7, 9, 21, 33, 44–45, 47–49, 83–85, 126; farmers, 8–9, 13–14; Fentress County, Tenn., 32, 106–7; Overton County, Tenn., 21–22; Upper Cumberland map, 25 Army of Tennessee, 99, 102, 141 Army of the Cumberland, 89 Army of the Ohio, 97 Army of the Potomac, 135 Bateman, William O., 134 Beall, John, 133 Beaty, Claiborne, 150 Beaty, “Cooly” David, 53 Beaty, James, 56, 59 Beaty, “Tinker” Dave, 52–56, 59, 82, 99, 103, 126–27; at Ferguson’s trial, 139; self-defense from Ferguson, 147, 149, 150; writes to Johnson, 106–7 Beck, Joseph, 82 Bell, John, 22 Biter, Mr., 17 Blackburn, Joseph H., 130–32, 141, 143 Blackman, H. C., 134, 143 black soldiers, 1, 112–15, 114, 134, 172– 73n. 8; Saltville Massacre, 9, 115–19 Bledsoe, Robert, 31, 106, 130, 140 Bledsoe, Willis Scott, 19, 31–32, 101, 103, 106, 130, 131 Bledsoe’s Rebels, 31–32, 42, 49, 69, 103, 104, 106 border areas, 21–22, 31–32, 50–52 Bowling Green, Kentucky, raid, 69–70 Bragg, Braxton, 83, 86, 96, 97, 99 Bramlette, Thomas E., 27–28, 46 Breckinridge, John C., 22, 111, 115, 118, 122–23, 149 Brents, John A., 36, 57, 63, 167n. 15 Brisbin, James, 114, 115 Brooks, Nancy, 67 Brownlow, James P., 101–2 Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 26, 27 Buell, Don Carlos, 57 Burbridge, Stephen G., 111–12, 114–15, 121–23, 173n. 8 Burnside, Ambrose, 54, 97 bushwhackers, 52–56 Camp Dick Robinson, 31, 33, 37–38 Capps, A. F., 81–82, 139 Capps, John A., 61, 139 Carter, Samuel P., 96 Cave City, Kentucky, 70–71 Cedar Branch, Virginia, 111–12 Celina, Tennessee, 74–75 chain of command, 82, 94 Champ Ferguson: Confederate Guerrilla , 10 Chestnut Ridge, Virginia, 111–13 civilians as targets, 108–9 class and economic issues, 8–9, 14, 33 Clay, Henry, 133 Clements, Leroy S., 65 Clift, William, 83, 86 Coffey, William A., 70 commanding officer, 94–95 190 Index Company of Independent Scouts, 52–56 Confederate Congress, 123 Confederate government, collapse of, 123–24 Confederates: disapproval of Ferguson , 9–10; Ferguson joins with, 42, 97–98, 110–12, 124, 142 conscription laws, 99 Constitutional Union Party, 22 Cosby, George, 115 Crabtree, Epharam, 85 Crabtree, John, 83–84 “crackers,” 15, 37 Crittenden, George B., 51 Cumberland River, 12, 31 Cutler, George, 118 Davidson, William, 32 Davis, Jefferson, 62, 141 Davis, Jeremiah, 113 Davis, William C., 122 Delk, William, 83–84, 85 Democratic Party, 21–22, 29 Denton, John, 81 Department of Southwest Virginia, 111 Department of the Ohio, 57 Dibrell, George G., 97–98, 112–13, 114, 118, 123, 130, 140, 170–71n. 10 District of Southern Central Kentucky, 100–101 Douglas, Stephen, 21–22 Dowdy, Rufus, 93, 103, 131 Duke, Basil W., 16, 52, 68, 76–77, 80, 89, 94–95, 97; Saltville and, 115, 118, 123 Duvall, Sam “Bug,” 32–33, 127–29, 139 Duvall, Van, 32, 127–29 Echols, John, 115, 118, 123, 149 election of 1860, 21–22, 29 England Cove, Tennessee, 108 Evans, Alexander, 16–18, 19 Evans, Floyd, 16–19 family divisions, 7, 9, 21, 33, 83–85; Ferguson , 26, 44–45, 47–49, 83–84 farmers, 8–9, 13–14 Ferguson, Ann Eliza Smith, 1–2, 4, 13, 146 Ferguson, Ben, 48 Ferguson, Brooks Owen, 47 Ferguson, Champ: aids Dibrell, 98; aids Hughs, 98–99, 101–6; aids Morgan, 96–97; Albany area conflict, 57–58; alleged abuse of wife and daughter , 9, 34, 35–36, 121, 164–65n. 9; arrested by Confederates, 123–24; arrest of, after war, 132–33; captured by Home Guard, 32–33, 35, 49; Columbia raid, 99–101; Confederate disapproval of, 9–10; Evans incidents , 16–20; execution of, 1–5, 146; expunges murder record, 36–37; First Kentucky Raid and, 75–79, 80; grand jury, retaliation against, 34–35; images of, 138–39; indictment for murder, 33, 34–35; Johnson issues warrant for, 60; joins Confederates , 42, 97–98, 110–12, 124, 142; killings of Unionists, 61–65; kills Anderson, 66–67; kills Beck, 82–83; kills Font Zachary, 64, 73, 81, 87, 139; kills Frogge, 40–41, 45, 59–60; kills James Zachary, 73–74, 87; kills Koger, 72...