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Sherman, General W. T., colonel in Louisiana State Military Academy,6-8; leaves Louisiana,8; and Lyon,26; assists Scott,33; account of McDowell's march,42; as a leader,76,94,261,338; Port Royal expedition,93; age,95; attempt to take Vicksburg,114; Kentucky command,120; reported insane,121,177; diffident about rise,131; Shiloh,149,150,152,153; joins Grant,163; Chickasaw Bluffs,164,260; and Lincoln,189; Vicksburg campaign,267; commands Army of Tennessee,280; Chattanooga,281,282,283,285; Red River Expedition spoils strategy of,318,347; and Stanton,330; on relative forces in South,334; threatens Georgia,336; Dalton,336,347; fitness for command,338; advance,345,346-47; Resaca,347; New Hope Church,348; at Allatoona,348; at Kenesaw,348,357; maneuvers Johnston,357-358;battle of Atlanta,358-359; asks reinforcements,360; announces fall of Atlanta,361; Lincoln's reply to,362; campaign (1864),366et seq.; quoted,366; at Atlanta,366-67; Hood's attempt on Allatoona,369-70; preponderance of force,370; March to the Sea,372-76; presents Savannah to Lincoln,376-77; march through Carolinas,381-83; conference at City Point (Virginia),384-85; terms of surrender to Johnston,386,394; on Lincoln,393-94

Shields, General James, Kernstown,198,199; at Catlett's Station,204; Port Republic,216

Shiloh, Grant's army assembles near,143,146; Confederate preparations,146-47; Grant's position and force,147-49; battle,149-55; losses,154; outcome,154; result,154-55

Shine, Elizabeth, mother of Farragut,95

Ship Island, taken,92; Farragut at,94,96

Sibley, General H. H., in New Mexico,166

Sickles, General D. E., at Gettysburg,294

Sigel, General Franz, Wilson's Creek,120; Second Bull Run,237; command in Shenandoah Valley,337; Hunter replaces,350

Simpson, Grant's mother's name,129

Slavery, Lee and,19;see alsoEmancipation, Negroes

Slemmer, Lieutenant, command at Pensacola,3; defends Fort Pickens,4-5

Smith, General A. J., at Tupelo,357

Smith, Captain C. F., Grant's admiration for,131; as a leader,135-36; Fort Donelson,138,189; ordered by Halleck to command expedition,142; Shiloh,152

Smith, General G. W., and Jackson's plan,194,195

Smith, Giles, Chattanooga,282

Smith, General Kirby, Bull Run,53

Smith, William, quartermaster onKearsarge,316

Sons of Liberty,59

South, seceding States of,56; war party in,57; population (1861),60-61; resources,62-64; transportation,64-66; sea-power,66-68;see alsoNavy, Confederate; reason for fighting,75; advantages,75-77; raiders,311; situation (1864),335; losses (1864),367; cause lost,379; number of troops,380

South Carolina, secedes,1; defeat at Port Royal,92;see alsoCarolinas, Charleston

South Mountain, Stuart at,245

Spotsylvania (Virginia), battle,342-48

Stanton, E. M., Secretary of War,179; and Lincoln,179; military interference,181,207,290,291,338; and Lee,182; Cameron succeeded by,195; Banks and,211; orders McClellan to Aquia,228; and Hooker,252,290; forbids use of cipher,330-81; and Grant's orders,332-333,363

Star of the West, merchant vessel fired on at Charleston,3,4

Staunton (Virginia), Jackson at,208; Hunter's success at,355

Steinwehr, General Adolph, atrocities under,227

Stone's River (Tennessee), battle,165

Strasburg (Virginia), Banks's retreat from,212

Stringham, Flag-Officer, expedition against Hatteras forts,85

Stuart, J. E. B.,255; Confederate cavalry leader, Martinsburg,37-38; Bull Run,44,45,51; raid around McClellan,219-21; against Pope,229-30; at South Mountain,245; second raid around McClellan,246-47; and Lee's retreat,305; age,338; Sheridan encounters,342; Yellow Tavern,345; killed,345

Sturgis, defeat at Brice's Cross Roads,357

Suffolk (Virginia), menace to Richmond from,252,253

Sumter, Fort, location,2,13; Anderson goes to,3; fall of,12-16,117

Sumter, Confederate raider,69

Supply, vessel at Fort Pickens,4

Swift Run Gap (Virginia), Jackson at,200,207

Swinton, William, war correspondent,333-34

Sykes, General George, succeeds Meade,292

Taylor, Captain Jesse, destroys Confederate reports at Fort Henry,128

Tecumseh, sunk in Mobile Bay,321

Tennessee, mountain folk Unionist,56,57; secedes,56

Tennessee, Confederate ram,320,321,323

Terry, General A. H., at Fort Fisher,325

Texas, State militia seize army posts,6; General Twiggs surrenders posts,8-9,65; secedes,56; contraband enters,308; Red River Expedition,318; last shots fired in,380

Thomas, General G. H., Mill Springs,125; "Rock of Chickamauga,"280,370; Chattanooga,282,283,284,285; Nashville campaign,370,376,377-78

Thoroughfare Gap (Virginia), Jackson's expedition,231,232,233

Tilghman, General Lloyd, surrenders Fort Henry,128

Tod, Judge, Jesse Grant in home of,130

Todd's Tavern (Virginia), battle,342

Transportation,64-66; means of communication in Virginia campaign,35-36

Traveler, Lee's horse,328,392,393

Tredegar Iron Works,64

Trevilian (Virginia), Sheridan at,355

Tunstall's Station (Virginia), Stuart's raid,220

Tupelo (Mississippi), Forrest defeated at,357

Twiggs, General D. E., surrenders Texas garrisons,8,9,165

Undine, gunboat taken with cavalry,368

Union Mills (Virginia), ford defended,46

United States, population (1861),60-61;see alsoNorth, South

Vallandigham case,175-76

Valley Campaign, Jackson's;seeShenandoah Valley

Valverde (New Mexico), Canby's defeat at,166

Van Dorn, General Earl, Confederate commander of trans-Mississippi troops,124; Pea Ridge,143; reinforces Beauregard,146,157; tries to reconquer Memphis-Corinth rails,161; replaced by Pemberton,163; at Holly Springs,163-64

Varuna, Governor Moore, destroys,101

Vicksburg, Farragut's expedition,105-06,107; importance of position,110; Sherman's attempt,114,260;see alsoChickasaw Bluffs; Grant's operations preceding,156; Grant's objective,160,163; Holly Springs,163-64; Confederates hold,167; Grant's position,260-261; generals at,261-62; Navy at,262-63,265-67; Grant's maneuvers,263-64; Federal force,267-68; Confederate force,268; scene of action,268; army rations at,269-70; siege,271-77; surrender,277-78; significance of victory,286; effect of victory,305,310

"Vicksburg Oak," Grant meets Pemberton under,277

Vinton. Major, Union officer at San Antonio,9,10

Virginia, Lee's loyalty to,11; blockade,16; secedes,17,56; Lee given chief command in,19; West Virginia part of,23; issues call for volunteers,25; West Virginia separates from,29; mountain folk Unionists,56; Federals hold western part of,57; Farragut from,95; Pope transferred to,159; Burnside's invasion of,247-51; Grant transferred to,334; campaign (1864),334-36,340-46,348-56,362,365; Wilderness,341-44; Todd's Tavern,342; Spotsylvania,342-43; Sheridan's raid,344,345-46; Cold Harbor,349-54; losses,355; campaign (1865),380,384,386-88; Petersburg,384,386; Five Forks,386; Sailor's Creek,387; Lee's surrender,388-93;see alsoPeninsula campaign

Virginia, Merrimacrenamed,86

Virginia Military Institute, Jackson at,20; cadets join Jackson,208

Walke, Henry, commandsCarondelet,133,134

Walker, Fort,92

Wallace, General Lew, as a leader,135-36; at Fort Donelson,138; Shiloh,148,151,154; and Early,356

Wallace, General W. H. L., killed,152

Warley, A. F., commands Manassas,101

Warren, G. K., Gettysburg,295,300; defection at Cold Harbor,351

Washburn, Colonel Francis, at Sailor's Creek,387

Washburne, E. B., introduces Swinton,333

Washington, capture of rolling stock hampers,24; desire to defend,37,197; sea-power saves,85; Southern plans against,193,210; reserve corps at,213,231,235; Pope's army retires to,243; Early makes for,356; Union troops reviewed in,395

Wassaw Sound, duel betweenWeehawkenandAtlantain,309

Wauhatchie (Tennessee), battle,281

Weed, Thurlow, election agent,360

Weehawken, duel withAtlanta,309

Weitzel, General Godfrey, at Fort Fisher,325

Welles, Gideon, Secretary of Navy,71,179; report to Congress,72; orders concerning New Orleans,94,96

West, settlers beyond reach of war,62

West Virginia, part of Virginia,23; Jackson from,24; becomes separate State,29,56; campaign in,29-33; Frémont in,199,200

Westfield, Renshaw refuses to surrender,114

Wheeler, General Joseph, Confederate cavalry leader,368

White House (Virginia), McClellan's base,201,203,210,222,225

White Oak Swamp (Virginia), battle,225

Whitman, Walt, on Lincoln,171-72

Wilcox, General C. M., Pickett's Charge,302

Wilderness, battle,333,341-44

Wilkeson, Lieutenant Bayard, Gettysburg,298-99

Wilkeson, Frank,Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac,81

Williams, General Thomas, at Vicksburg with Farragut,107,108; killed,110

Wilmington (North Carolina), rail connections threatened,253; in Confederate hands,310,335; Fort Fisher guards entrance to,323; captured,380

Wilson's Creek (Missouri), battle,29,119-20

Winchester (Virginia), Johnston retires to,37,43; Banks refuses to retreat to,212; forces at,216; Ewell drives Milroy out of,291

Winslow, Captain, commandsKearsarge,314,315

Wise, H. A., ex-Governor of Virginia,31

Worden, Captain J. L., commandsMonitor,88

Wright, Colonel W. W., engineer,384

Wyandotte, vessel at Pensacola,4

Yazoo River, Porter on,266,267

Yellow Tavern, Stuart and Sheridan at,345

Yorktown, Confederates hold,200; evacuated,201

Zouaves under Stuart,51


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