BUTLER COUNTY, situated toward the southern part of Alabama. Area, 1,000 square miles. Seat of justice, Greenville. Pop. in 1830, 5,650; in 1840, 8,685; in 1850, 10,836.

BLOUNT COUNTY, situated in the northern part of Alabama. Length, 32 miles; breadth, 30; with an area of 960 square miles. The face of the country is generally hilly. Seat of justice, Blountsville. Pop. in 1820, 2,415; in 1830, 4,233; in 1840, 5,570; in 1850, 7,367.

BIBB COUNTY, in the central part of Alabama, and traversed by Cahawba river, with Coosa river on the east. Length, 45 ms. ; mean width, 25; extending over an area of 1,100 square miles. Seat of justice, Centreville. Pop. in 1820, 3,676; in 1830, 6,305; in 1840, 8,284; in 1850, 9,969.

BENTON COUNTY, situated on the easterly boundary of Alabama, and watered by the Tallapoosa and a branch of Coosa river. Area, 1,060 square miles. Seat of justice, Jacksonville. Pop. in 1840, 14,260; in 1850, 17,163.

BARBOUR COUNTY, situated in the southeasterly part of Alabama, on the westside of Chattahoochee river. Area, 1,200 square miles. Court are held at Clayton. Pop. in 1840, 12,024; in 1850, 23,632.

BALDWIN COUNTY, in the southwest part of Alabama, on the gulf of Mexico, with Tensaw and Alabama rivers on the west, and Perdido river on the east. Area, 200 square miles. The face of the country is hilly, and the soil generally thin, covered with pine forests, except along the streams, where it is highly fertile. Courts are held at Blakeley. Pop. in 1820, 1,713; in 1830, 2,334; in 1840, 2,951; in 1850, 4,414.

AUTAUGA COUNTY, situated in the central part of Alabama, on the northerly and westerly side of Coosa river. Length, about 43 miles; breadth, 18; with an area of 774 square miles. The face of the country is undulating and hilly; the soil varied in its quality, from the productive alluvion to extremely sterile. Courts are held at Kingston. Pop. in 1820, 3,853; in 1830, 11,784; in 1840, 14,342; in 1850, 15,023.

Booth retired temporarily from the stage after his brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on 14 April 1865. In early 1866 he returned to, as he put it, "the only profession for which God has suited me." For the remainder of his life, however, he refused invitations to perform in Washington, D.C. Audiences attached no blame to Booth for his brother's crime. Drama critic William Winter described his return to the stage: "Nine cheers hailed the melancholy Dane upon his first entrance.

Buckner considered Union actions in Kentucky to be violations of the U.S. Constitution and of states' rights, so in September 1861 he went to Nashville, where he accepted Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston's offer of a brigadier generalship. Johnston ordered Buckner to Fort Donelson, where a terribly confused situation left him in command. The Union forces enveloped that position, and in February 1862 Buckner surrendered the fort on the now-famous "unconditional surrender" terms of General Ulysses S. Grant. Buckner remained a prisoner for more than five months.