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Index 2nd Texas (Union) Cavalry, O. Dix’s service, 97 3rd Battalion Texas Cavalry, Neal reinforcement , 66 3rd Regiment Texas Infantry, Luckett’s leadership , 62 8th Texas Infantry Battalion. See Fort Semmes; Maltby, William H. (during Civil War); Neal, Benjamin 13th Brigade, Fort Semmes arrival, 87 14th Field Battery, Henry’s printer request, 68 14th Illinois Infantry Regiment, W. H. H. Dix’s service, 97 15th Infantry, Mexican War, 6–8 15th Maine Regiment, at Fort Semmes, 88–89 19th US Colored Regiment, serenade impact , 150 20th Iowa Regiment. See Post Aransas 24th Battalion of State Troops, personnel listed, 198–200. See also Fort Semmes 36th Texas Cavalry, Edgerley brothers, 92 37th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Black’s leadership, 130 45th Illinois Infantry Regiment, J.Maltby’s leadership, 6, 116f, 117–20, 122, 173, 193 Abat, Emile, 68 advertisements, Ranchero, 44–45 Advertiser, 154, 156–57, 166, 172, 182 Advocate Magazine, 203n20 African American soldiers, 108 Alabama, 80, 108 Albertson, Andrew, 123 alcoholism, 183–84 Allen, Henry W., 129 American Flag, 44 American Star, 43 amnesty oath, 143 Anderson, Andrew, 55 Anderson, John, 96, 109 Anderson, William, 82, 102 Aransas Pass, lighthouse, 40, 64f, 78, 84, 88. See also blockade enforcement, Kittredge’s Army and Navy Journal, 160 Army Corps of Engineers, 30 army supply depot, Corpus Christi, 32, 39, 43 Arthur, USS, 63. See also blockade enforcement , Kittredge’s Ashtabula, Ohio, 11 Ashton, Jacob, 148 Aubrey, William, 17–18 Aurora Borealis, 161–62 Austin, circus performance, 16 Bagdad, Mexico, 68, 85, 164 Baker, James T., 85 La Bandera de México, 151 Bangs, Samuel, 43 Banks, Nathaniel, 85, 86, 93, 94, 114–15 Banquete, Texas, 49, 96, 102, 105, 110 Barber, Jason, 177 Barber, Jasper Maltby, 208n11 Barber, Perry, 12 Barber, Samuel, 12 Barksdale, Bradford C., 165 Barnard, James, 20, 25, 31, 36, 37, 43, 182 Bartlett, William A., 154–55 Baskins, Laura, 73 Bates, Surgeon, 89 Baxter, Peter, 82 Beauregard, Pierre, 134 Bee, Hamilton, 75, 86, 90, 91, 94, 98–99, 100–101, 129, 135 beef industry, 156 Bell, Governor, 27 Bell, Henry H., 82 Belle Italia, 71, 73 index  Belleport, 65 Bennett, A. J., 181 Bennett, James Gordon, 161 Berriozábol, Felipe, 159–61 Berry, Henry: before Civil War, 27, 28, 29, 38, 43–45, 47, 49, 51; during Civil War, 60, 96–97, 207n4; post-Civil War, 144, 148, 185 Berry, Irenah (earlier Gravis), 44–45, 54, 96–97, 103, 123 Bickley, George W. L., 51 Black, Charles, 129–31 Black Kettle, 188 blockade enforcement, Kittredge’s: Corpus Christi attack, 72–76; island-based engagements, 63–67, 70–72; successor actions, 77–78 Boletin de la Primero, 178 Borden, Gail, 19, 24 Bowen, Thomas, 29 Boynton, Alice, 11 Boynton, Andrew P., 11 Bradfute, William, 89–90 Brady, Matthew, 19 Bragg, Braxton, 207n2 Bragg, Gen., 134 Brazos, 15 Brazos Santiago, 123, 136, 164 Breaker, 71, 73 Breckinridge, John, 49 Brito, Santiago A., 190 Britton, Forbes, 20, 27, 29, 37, 47, 52 Brown, Egbert Benson, 129 Brown, John, 47 Brown, Joseph, 54 Brownsville, Texas: Cortina’s raids, 47; Customs position, 180–81; hurricane damage, 164–65; jury duty, 34–36; Masonic Order, 36–37, 176; and Mexican civil conflict, 150; newspapers, 44, 124, 152–54; Union seizure, 85, 87, 98–99; yellow fever epidemic, 173 Brownsville Daily Herald, 192 Brownsville Flag, 46 Brownsville Ranchero, 124, 126–27, 146, 174 Brownsville Republican, 151, 154 Brownsville Sentinel, 166 Bryden, James, 145 Buchanan, James, 42, 47, 97 Buell, Don Carlos, 207n2 Busse, Frederick, 75 Butler, Benjamin F., 181 Cahill, Cornelius, 27, 29, 31 Calhoun, John C., 55–56 Callahan, Charles, 34 Camarena, Don, 23 camels, army, 40 Camp Aransas, 69 Camp Hood, 71 Camp Semmes, 6, 80–90, 197–200 Canales, Esequira Rosa (later Tinney), 147 Canby, Edward, 179 Cannon, John, 29, 56, 151 Carlyon, Dave, 17 Carroll County, Mississippi, 26 Carvajal, José Maria de Jesús, 24–25 Cass, Lewis, 42 Catholic priests, arrest order, 160–61 cattle brand facsimiles, 45, 154 Central American, 33 Central American Company, 33 Chapman, James H., 26 Chapman, John Ratcliffe, 9 Chapultepec battle, 6–7 Chase, Daniel, 7–8 Chase, William, 88, 91 Chicago Times, 160 Chicago Tribune, 118–19 chief justices, 148 Chinese laborers, 188–89 circuses, 14–17, 20–23 City Cemetery, Brownsville, 193 City of Buffalo, 44 civilian conditions, wartime Corpus Christi, 77, 92, 109–10, 123, 141 Clark, Edward, 58, 61, 129 Clarksville, hurricane damage, 164 Claudon, Emile P., 152–54, 187 Clean, Sarah, 10 Clemmer, Marian Merriam, 2 Cleveland, Ohio...

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