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