Memoirs (The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series)

INDEX

Abbott, Colonel J. C.

Acworth, Georgia

Adairsville, Georgia, Johnston’s rear guard at

Adams, Colonel

Adams, General John, killed

Alexander, Colonel J. I.

Alexandria, Louisiana, college at et seq.; A. J. Smith sent to

Alexandria, Virginia, Sherman’s army at

Allatoona, Georgia; battle atet seq.; order on defense of

Allatoona Pass

Allen, Captain James

Allen, General Robert

Anderson, General Robert; at Sumter ; his retirement; his dispatch on surrender of Sumter

Andersonville, Georgia, prison at

Anthony, Colonel D. C.

Appler, Colonel

Arkansas, Dept. of, transferred

Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman; taken

Arms smuggled into Confederacy

Armstrong, General

Armies: the rebel, in Virginia; the Northern volunteer; General Sherman’s, strength of, in the Carolina campaignet seq.; at the grand reviewet seq.; strength of the Union, at close of the war; of the Tennessee, Cumberland, etc. (See Tennessee, Cumberland, etc.)

Army: the ideal; an, on the march; feeding an; administrationet seq.

Army societies, reunion of

Arnold, Captain

Arnold, Mr., Mayor of Savannah

Arsenal at Columbia destroyed

Arthur, President, order of

Articles of war and army regulations, draft of

Artillery: in march to the sea; organization of; value of, compared with that of cavalry and infantry

Ashboro’, North Carolina

Ashlock, Pilot; marriage and death of

Aspinwall, W. H.

Athens, Alabama

Atkins, Colonel A. D.

Atkins, General S. D.

Atlanta, Georgia: first sight of; battles of (see Atlanta, battles of); fire opened on; fires in; rejoicings in, at the supposed retreat; abandoned, and entered by General Slocum ; removal of inhabitants fromet seq.; concentration at, for the march to the sea; abandoned by Sherman; fired; last look at

Atlanta, battles ofet seq.; reports of; losses at; second battle

Atlanta campaign, theet seq.; supplies, troops, etc., for et seq.; modification in plan of ; beginning of; General Halleck’s opinion of losses inet seq.

Aubrey, F. X.: celebrated ride of ; his death

Audenried, Colonel J. C.

Augusta, Georgia: bridge at; rai.lroad

Augur, Brigadier-General C. C.

Averill, General W. W.

Averysboro’, North Carolina, battle of; losses at

Ayres, George B.

Ayres, General R. B.

Ayres’s Battery, at Bull Run

Babcock, Colonel

Bacon, Henry D.

Bacon, Colonel John M.

Badeau, General Adam: statement by ; “History of Gen. Grant,”

Banks, General N. P. ; besieges Port Hudson ; object of his Red River Expedition; letter to visit to; his expedition ; its numbers; spoken of by General Grant

Banquets and feasts

Barnard, Major John G.

Barnes, Captain

Barnes, Private

Barnum, General H. A.

Battles: difficulty of correctly reporting,XXIII–XXIV; not fought by the book

Beaufort, North Carolina

Beauregard, General G. P. T. ; at Shiloh, his loss; at Corinth his retreat; replaced by Bragg ; joins Hood; appeals to the people of Georgia

Beckwith, General Amos

Beebe, Captain Y. V.

Beecher, Rev. H. W., oration by

Behr, Captain

Belknap, W. W.: recommended for promotion; made Secretary of War; antagonizes Shermanet seq.; impeached

Bellefonte, Alabama

Belt, Cadet

Benicia, California: naming of struggle of, for supremacy headquarters at

Benjamin, Senator

Bennett, Colonel

Bennett’s house, negotiations at

Benton, Thomas H.

Benton Barracks, camp of instruction at

Bentonsville, North Carolina, battle ofet seq.; losses at

Biddle, Com. James

Bidwell

Big Black River: the, troops crossing ; movements onet seq.

Big Shanty, Georgia

Bird, Mr.

Birdsong’s Ferry, Mississippi

Birge, General H. W.

Black Bayou, expedition to

Blackburn’s Ford, Virginia, action at

Blackville, South Carolina, concentration at

Blair, General Frank P.; repulsed; in the Vicksburg attack ; joins General Sherman’s army

Blair, Captain James

Blair, Montgomery

Bliss, Major

Blockade-runner captured at Savannah

Bounty system, evils of

Bowen, Captain

Bowie, Mr., plantation of

Bowling Green, Kentucky: fortified by the Confederates ; evacuated

Bowman, Major

Bowman, S. M.

Boyce, Judge Henry

Boyd, Professor D. F.

Brackett, Captain

Bradley, Colonel L. P.

Bragg, General Braxton ; letter to; his hatred for Davis; at Shiloh ; his ability; offensive movement by defeated at Chattanooga pursued; foretells the civil war

Brannan, General J. M.

Brannan, Samuel

Breckinridge, Gen.: at Shiloh interview of Sherman and Johnston ; Sherman’s advice to

Breech-loading arms, probable influence of

Breese, Captain

Bridgeport, Alabama

Bridges protected by strong block-houses

Brigade, the, defined

Brown, Governor Joseph E., of Georgia; denounced by Jefferson Davis; abandons Milledgeville

Brown, Hackaliah

Browne, A. G.

Buchanan, James, his theory about coercion

Buckhead Church, Georgia, Kilpatrick’s march to

Buckland, Colonel R. P

Buckner, General; surrenders Fort Donelson

Buell, General D. C. ; sent to the Department of Kentucky ; his loss at Shiloh; ordered toward Chattanooga ; compelled to fall back ; removed acquitted by court of inquiry ; letter from

Bull Bay

Bullitt, Cuthbert, Union man in New Orleans

Bull Run, Virginia, battle of General Sherman’s official report of; reasons of failure at ; recollections of

Bummers

Burke, Martin

Burnside, General Ambrose E. ; in danger at Knoxville ; his quarters there; pursues Longstreet

Burnsville, Alabama

Burnt Hickory, Georgia

Burton, Lieutenant-Colonel

Bushbeck, Colonel

Bussey, Cyrus

Butler, General B. F.; as a war-prophet

Butler, General (rebel)

Buzzard’s Roost, Georgia

Byers, Adjutant S. H. M.; poem by

Cadwalader, George C.

Cairo, Illinois

Calhoun, Georgia, threatened

Calhoun, John C.

Calhoun, J. M.

California: chapters on; General Sherman goes to; in the Mexican War; dispute as to the government of; quiet in ; seasons and hunting in; discovery of gold in ; quicksilver-mines of; travel in; first steamer seen in ; growth of; convention to frame a Constitution for; suffering of immigrants to; General Sherman returns to ; business unsettled in . (See also San Francisco, Gold-fever.)

Callendar, Captain

Cameron, Colonel

Cameron, J. D.

Cameron, Hon. Simon: visit of, to Louisville; statement of General Wood concerning

Campbell, Hugh

Campbell, Hon. Lewet seq.

Campbellsburg

Camp “Far West,”

Canal, survey for a

Canby, Adjutant-General E. R. S.

Cane Creek, Ala., engagement at

Cape Fear River, the

Cape Horn

Capron, Colonel

Carlin, General W. P.

Carlisle, Captain

Carolinas, campaign of the: organization and strength of Sherman’s army inet seq.; begun; reults ofet seq.

Carpets captured at Cheraw

Carquinez Straits

Carr, General E. A.

Carson, Kit

Carter, General S. P.

Case, Colonel H.

Casement, Colonel J. S.

Casey, James; his quarrel with James King; shoots King ; hanged

Casserly, E.

Cassville, Georgia: Johnston at ; retreatset seq.

Catawba River, the

Cavalry: failure of, to take a railroad ; cannot destroy railroads ; organization of, described ; value of, compared with that of infantry and artillery

Cavalry division, strength of

Census tables, used

Central America, the, loss of

Centreville

Chalmers, General

Chambers, Judge

Champion Hills, battle of

Chapman, William, anecdote of

Charleston, South Carolina: description of, as in 1846, secession doctrine in; General Halleck’s letters on; reason for not marching directly to; “salt” unnecessary ; evacuated by Hardee; capture; desolation

Chase, Hon. S. P.

Chattahoochee River: Johnston on et seq.; Sherman on ; he utilizes rebel works on

Chattanooga, Tennessee: movement toward; its importance ; Grant in; preparations for the battle ; its plan; the battle et seq.; General Sherman’s report of; losses at; thanks of Congress for

Chattooga Valley, the

Cheatham, General B. F.

Cheraw, S. C.

Chewalla, Gen. Sherman atet seq.

Chickamauga, battle of

Chickamauga Creek

Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi; battle at

Childs, Mrs. General

Christmas gift, Savannah presented to Lincoln as a

Churchill, Colonel

Churchill, General

Cincinnati, Ohio, visit to

Citizens, complaints and interference of

Clarke, Colonel N. S.

Clay, Henry: his “omnibus bill,” ; his oratory and Webster’s

Cleburne, General, killed

Coacoochee, chief of the Seminoles: ; his treachery; taken

Cobb, Howell, plantation of

Cockerell, Colonel J. R.

Coffee, A. J

Cogswell, General William

Colliersville, Tennessee, engagement at

Coloma, Cal., Sutter’s mill at

Columbia, South Carolina: an objective point; destruction of, hinted at; first view of; shelled; fire in .

Columbus, Kentucky, occupied by the rebels

Company, the, defined

Confederate Army, paroled and unex changed prisoners fighting in

Confedera Government: at its greatest strength; abandons Richmond

Confiscation of property of rebels . (See Property.)

Congaree, the Little

Congress: meeting of, in 1861, thanks Sherman and his men

Connecticut, cession of territory of

Consuls, foreign, interfering in regard to cotton

Controller of Georgia, tax-list of

Convent, superioress of a, applies for protection

Cooke, Henry D.

Cooke, General P. St. George

Coon, Colonel S. P.

Cooper, Colonel J. A.

Coosawhatchie, the

Cora, hanged by the Vigilantes

Corcoran, Colonel Michael ; captured

Corcovado, Mount

Corinth, Mississippi; its importance; movement on; evacuated by the Confederates; condition of the army at; battle of; its effect

Corps, the, organization of

Corse, Brigadier-General J. M. ; sent to General Banks; at Allatoona; wounded; his reportet seq; thanked

Corwin, Hon. Thomas

Cosby, General

Cosumnes River, the

Cotton; letter of General Sherman on; trade in, free ; captured; burned

Crawford, G. W., Secretary of War

Crittenden, General (Confederate)

Crittenden, General T. L.

Crocker, General M. M.

Crockett, Mr.

Crook, General George

Croxton, Colonel J. T.

Cruft, General Charles, oration by

Cullum, Gen. G. W.

Culp’s house, Ga., engagement at

Cumberland, Army of the; jealousy of; strength of, at various times; losses in Cumberland, Department of the, tri-monthly return ofet seq.

Curtin, Governor

Curtis, General S. R.: in Missouri; victory of, at Pea Ridge; in Southwest Missouri

Daggett, Colonel R.

Dahlgren, Admiral J. A. ; proposes assault on Fort Moultrie; letters by

Dahlgren, Ulrich, allusion to

Dailor

Dallas, Georgia: movement on ; described; battle at

Dalton, Georgia: Johnston at; movement against; surrender demanded

Dana, Charles A.

Dandelion, boarded by Sherman

Davis, Jefferson ; plantation of; speeches by; his disappointment ; his escape; rumors about his specie-trainet seq.; his controversy with General Scott

Davis, General Jefferson C.

Davis, Joseph

Davis, Captain N. H.

Day, Colonel N. W.

Dayton, Colonel L. M.

Dayton, William L.

Dean, Eliza

Decatur, Alabama

Decatur, Georgiaet seq.

De Courcey, Brigadier-General

Dedication

Deer Creek, expedition to

De Gress, Captain

Denman, Hampton

Denver, Brigadier-General J. W.

Derby, Dr.

Derby, Lieutenant

De Russy, Fort

Desecrated vegetables and consecrated milk

Deserters: capture of; justified

Deshler, Brigadier-General

Dickey, Colonel

Dick Robinson, camp

Discipline, how best maintained

Division, the, defined

Doan, Lieutenant-Colonel

Dodge, General G. M. ; wounded

Dodge, Colonel R. L,

Donaldson, General J. L.

Donelson, Fort, captureet seq.

Donohue, Mr.

Douglass, D. F.

Draper, Dr. J. W., his history of the war

Draper, Simeon

Dresser, Captain

Duncan, Blanton

Duncan, Captain: captured by Confederates; his escape

Dustin, Colonel Daniel

Eagan, Captain

Easton, General L. C.

Eastport, Tennessee Eatonton, Georgia

Eatonton Factory

Ebenezer Creek, Georgia, explanation of reported massacre at

Echota, Georgia

Edisto, crossing of the

“Elams,”

Election of 1860, the

Eleventh Corps, consolidated with Twelfth

Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Engineer Corps, uses of

England, threats of war by

English traders

Etowah River, the, mounds on

Euharlee

Europe, Gen. Sherman’s visit to

Evarts, Hon. W. M.

Ewing, General Charles

Ewing, Ellen B., married to General Sherman

Ewing, General Hugh

Ewing, P. B.

Ewing, Hon. Thomas; adopts W. T. Sherman; Secretary of the Interior; in the Senate; letter of General Hal-leek to; letter from, concerning E. M. Stanton

Ezra Chapel, Georgia, battle ofet seq.; Logan’s report on

Fairchild, Lucius

Fall, John C.

Farmington, fighting near

Farragut, Admiral D. G.; at the mouth of the Mississippi; New Orleans taken by

Fayetteville, North Carolina; occupied

Feather River, the

Feeding of an army, the

Fifteenth Corps: badge of; excellence of; hint as to the character of

Fillmore, Millard; expectations regarding his administration; his policy

Financial crisis, of 1857,

Fire-Land District, the

Fisher, Fort, North Carolina: expedition against; its failure predicted ; taken

Fisk, Clinton B.

Fitzgerald, Mr.

Flad, Colonel

Fletcher, Colonel Thomas C.

Florida, removal of Indians from

Florida War, theet seq.

Floyd, D. R.; escape of, from Fort Donelson

Folsom, Captain

Food, best, for soldiers

Foote, Admiral

Foragers capture the South Carolina Railroad

Foraging, in the march to the sea ; how carried on

Forbes, Mr., British consul

Force, Brigadier-General M. F.

Forces, organization of ; of the regular army

Foreigners, property rights of

Forrest, General N. B. ; his responsibility for the Fort Pillow massacre; defeats Sturgis, and is defeated by Smith

Fort Fisher, Fort Moultrie, etc. (see under names of forts)

Foster, General J. G. ; occupies Charleston

Foster, Mr., within the Union lines

Fourteenth Corps, character of

Fox, Parson

Franklin, W. B., made brigadier

Franklin, Tennessee, battle of

Freedmen: used in intrenching; General Sherman’s course with, approved; perplexities as to

Fremont, General J. C.; claim of, to the control in California ; elected Senator ; his alleged pomp and state; possible reason of the supposed frauds in his department ; plan to give a command to

French, the, their withdrawal from Mexico

French, Gen. S. G.: attacks Allatoona ; summons to the garrison

French Camp, first name of Stockton, California

Frost, General D. M

Fry, Colonel J. B., letter in regard to General Buell

Fuller, General J. W.

Gaines’s Landing, Arkansas

Gardner, Lieutenant

Garland, Colonel

Garnett, Dr.

Garrard, General Kenner; his part in the Atlanta campaign; sent to Covington; criticized for caution

Garrison, C. K.

Geary, General]. W.

General, proper position of the commanding

General of the Army, letters on the powers of ; powers of, defined

Georgia: its importance to the Confederacy; disaffection inet seq.; appeal of Congressmen; damage to, by the march to the sea; people of, anxious to have South Carolina punished

Georgia, Army of: its strength, April; its organization ; farewell order to

Gettysburg, battle of

Gilmer, Colonel Jeremy F.

Gillmore, Gen. Q. A.; order of

Gold: discovery of, at Sutter’s Mill ; official report of the discovery

Gold-fever, the

Gold-mines, the

Goldsboro’, North Carolina; an objective point; occupied by Sherman; junction of armies at

Goldsborough, Captain

Gomez family, the

Goodwin, Miss Josephine

Gordon, Mr.

Gordon, Georgia

Gorman, General W. A.

Graham, General G. Mason

Graham, Colonel Harvey

Graham, ex-Senator

Graham, Major L. P.

Grand Junction, Tennessee, General Sherman ordered to

Granger, Colonel George F., commanding brigade in Army of the Ohio

Granger, General Gordon ; Howard assigned to his corps

Granger, General R. S., at Decatur

Grant, Lieutenant Frederick, accompanies General Sherman to Europe

Grant, General Ulysses S.: at Paducah ; his plans, and the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson; his consequent fame; General Halleck’s orders to; restored to command on the Tennessee; ; his silence ; losses at Shiloh; substantially left out of command; General Sherman’s advice to ; assigned to West Tennessee; prepares to attack Price; at Jackson ; his displeasure with General Rosecrans; letter to ; his planset seq.; his stores captured; disapproves of the movement on the Arkansas; letters from ; clamor against; his opinion as to Vicksburg ; his success there ; placed in command of the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee; his impression as to the final campaign of the war; his letter as to the appointment as lieutenant-general; acknowledgments to Generals Sherman and McPherson; called East; presentation of a sword to; his plans for generals without commands ; letters of, giving plans ; other letters ; dispatches from ; eulogy on General Wilson; dispatches from ; letters on General Sherman’s movements ; other letters; mentions peace commissioners; letter on Sheridan’s intended movement ; confident of closing the war with one more battle; in pursuit of Lee; announces Lee’s surrender; at Raleigh ; orders resumption of hostilities; letters on Sherman’s action ; offer of, to reconcile Sherman and Stanton declined ; his staff; refuses to go to Mexico; letter from; elected President; inaugurated ; letter on powers of General of the Army

Grant, Mrs. U. S.

Graysville, Georgia

Green, Charles

Greene, General G. S.

Greene, Captain O. D.

Gregory, Captain]. F.

Grenada, Mississippi

Gresham, Gen. W. Q., wounded

Grierson, General B. H.

Griffin, Dr.

Griswold Station, Ga., fight near

Gross, Colonel William

Grover, General

Guards, pickets and videttes

Guaymas, Mexico, capture of

Guerrillas, destruction of bridges by

Guthrie, Hon. James ; co-operates with Sherman

Gwin, Senator

Gwin, Captain, his death

Haggerty, Lieutenant-Colonel, his death

Haight, Henry

Haines’s Bluff, Mississippi, fort at ; feint on; abandoned by the rebels

Halleck, General H. W. ; letters from; credited with the plan of the Forts Henry and Donelson campaign; his plans; reorganizes the army; order from ; his ability; mistake of his halt at Corinth; his removal to the East; order from; on reconstruction ; letters from ; dispatch from; letters ; invitation by

Halstead, Murat

Hamburg

Hamilton, General C. S.

Hamilton, Lieutenant John

Hamilton, General Schuyler

Hammond, Captain J. H.

Hammond, Major R. P.

Hampton, General Wade

Hancock, General W. S.

Hand-to-hand fighting, rare

Hanging Rock

Hardee, General W. J.; at Jonesboro’; retreats; at Savannah; evacuates Savannah; evacuates Charleston; crosses the Pedee; the Cape Fear; retreats from Averysboro’

Hardee, Mr., of Savannah

Hardie, James A.

Hard Times plantation

Harker, General C. G., killed

Harlan, Mr.

Harney, General W. S.

Harpeth River, Tennessee

Harris, Colonel

Harrison, General W. H., victory of, Hartnell, W. E. P.

Hartshorne, Dr.

Haskell, Mr.

Haskins, Major, his surrender of the arsenal at Baton Rouge

Hatchie River, the

Haul-Over, the

Hawley, Colonel William

Hazen, Brigadier-General W. B.; ordered to storm Fort McAllister ; congratulated

Hazzard, Colonel

Head of the column, the place of safety and glorious effort

Headquarters, general, its equipment in the field

Heath, Lieutenant-Colonel

Heintzelman, Colonel; made brigadier

Helena, Arkansas

Hell Hole

Henderson, J. B

Henderson, Colonel T. J.

Henry, Fort, captured

Hill, Senator B. H., appeal of, to the people of Georgia

Hill, Mr., of Georgia, within the Union lineset seq. Hilton Head, South CarolinaHindman, Fort. (See Arkansas Post.)

Hitchcock, General E. A.Hitchcock, Major Henry

Hoar family, the

Hobart, General H. C,

Holliday, T. D., killed

Holly Springs, Mississippi: movement toward; rebel forces at ; taken

Holman, Colonel J. H.

Hood, General J. B.: disagrees with Johnston; explains the retreat from Cassville; supersedes Johnston; his character ; the battle of Peach Tree Creek; at Atlantaet seq.; losses in his army; proposes exchange of prisoners; crosses the Chattahoochee; marches toward Dalton; demands surrender of Resaca ; pursuedet seq.; at Decatur; at Florence ; beaten at Franklin ; reaches Nashville

Hooker, General Joseph ; in command of Eleventh and Twelfth Corps ; begins the action at New Hope; peculiarities ofet seq.; asks to be relieved; criticized

Horse-i-bar

Houghtaling, Major Charles

Hovey, General A. P.

Howard, General O. O. ; transferred ; to succeed McPherson; at the battle of Ezra Chapel; praises Logan ; transferred

Howard, Volney E.

Howe, Orion P.

Hoyt, Charles (cousin)

Hoyt, Charles (uncle)

Hoyt, James M.

Hoyt, Mary, married

Hunt, Major

Hunter, General David

Hunter, John

Hunter, Colonel M. C.

Hunter, R. M. T.

Hunting, in California

Hurlbut, Colonel F. J.

Hurlbut, General S. A

Hyams, Attorney-General

Illinois, Regiments of: 4th ; 6th; 29th ; 40th; 43d ; 55th; 113th; 116th; 127th. (See Forces, Organization of.)

Indiana, Regiments of: 37th ; 66th; 83d. (See Forces, Organization of.)

Indian Bureau

Indian Peace Commissionet seq.

Indians: war withet seq.; mistake of removing them from Florida ; treachery of; murder of Lieutenant Warner by; opposed to Pacific Railroads; work of the Peace Commission amonget seq.; visit to tribes of

Infantry: organization of, discussed ; value of, compared with that of cavalry and artillery

Insanity, the charge of

Intrenching, usefulness of

Iowa, Regiments of: 6th. (See Forces, Organization of.)

Irvin, William, Cadet

Island No. 10, Tennessee

Iuka, Mississippi; seized by Price ; General Ord sent to; engagement at;

Jackson, Andrew; famous declaration of

Jackson, Claiborne

Jackson, General N. J.

Jackson, General W. H.

Jackson, Mississippi; battle at; besieged and evacuated ; losses at

Jackson, Camp, surrender of; General Grant at

Jackson, Fort, Louisiana; passed by Farragut

James, Lieutenant

Jarreau, B.

Jenney, Captain, map by

John Brown’s body, marching chorus on advance from Atlanta

Johnson, Andrew; differs with his party; calls Sherman to Washington; wants Grant to go to Mexico; letter from; demands Stanton’s resignation; makes a new department; leaves Sherman at St. Louis; his impeachment

Johnson, Captain George

Johnson, Reverdy

Johnson, Mrs. Reverdy

Johnson, Brigadier-General R. W. ; sent to Nashville

Johnson, William N., Governor of California

Johnston, General A. S. ; his troops ; his death

Johnston, General Joseph E. ; his ability; on the Big Blacket seq.; his retreat ; his strong position at Dalton; his reputed strength ; speculation concerning ; his position at Buzzard’s Roost; abandons Dalton for Resaca; evacuates Resaca ; explains his retreat from Cassvilleet seq.; disagrees with Hood; his strength, May et seq.; his losses; his errors in regard to losses; his account of Polk’s death; position on Kenesaw; abandons it and Marietta; his losses; falls back; superseded by Hood; denounced by Davis; story told by; in command in the Carolinas; estimate of his forces; falls on Sherman’s left at Bentonsville; retreats to Raleigh; asks suspension of hostilities; argues for general surrender; his horror at the murder of Lincoln; interview with Sherman; Sherman’s terms to; surrenders on Lee’s terms; supplemental terms with Schofield

Jones, Captain D. R.

Jones, Colonel P. H.

Jones, Roger, Adjutant-General

Jones, Colonel T.

Jones, Commodore T. Ap C.

Jones, Colonel W. S.

Jonesboro’, battle at

Jordan, General T. J.

Juarez, B. P., President of Mexico et seq.

Kearney, General Stephen W. –

Kelton, Colonel J. C., letter to

Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia; Confederate and Union positions at; movement against et seq.; battle of; losses; turned

Kentucky; its adherence to the Union; army operations inet seq.; official report of the forces in; dispatches as to the situation in ; disloyalty in; estimate of rebel troops in–

Kerwin, Colonel

Keyes, General E. D.

Kibbe, General

Kilburn, Colonel C. L.

Kilpatrick, General Judson; circles Atlanta ; narrow escape of

King, Mr., of Marietta

King of William, James; shot; his death

King, Tom

King, T. Butler

King William

King’s Bridge, rebuilt

Kingston, Georgia, Johnston abandons ;

Kirby, Major

Kittoe, Surgeon E. D.

Knights of the Golden Circle, the

Knoxville, Tennessee: Burnside besieged at; the siege raised; General Sherman sent to; his report; its fortifications

Kossak, Captain

Kyle, Lieutenant-Colonel

Lancaster, Ohio; academy of

Langley, Lieutenant-Colonel

Larkin, T. O.

Larned, Paymaster

Lauman, Brig.-Gen. J. G.

Law-and-Order Party, the

Leavenworth, Fort, Kansas

Lecomte, Judge

Le Duc, W. G

Lee, General R. E.: reports of victories by; instructions regarding ; speculations as to his plans ; his surrender

Lee, General S. D.

Leggett, General M. D.

Leggett’s Hill, assault of

Lewis, Montgomery

Lewis, S. S., the steamer, wreck of

L’Hommedieu, Dr.

Lick, James

Lick Creek, Tennessee

Lightburn, General

Lincoln, President: his nomination ; effect of his election at the South; visit of General Sherman to; his call for volunteers; his first message ; his address to soldiers after Bull Run; interview with; asks modification of an order; letter concerning Osterhaus and Hovey; in doubt; congratulations from ; dispatches from; his opinion of the march to the sea;interview withet seq,; ready for reconstruction ; hint of, as to Jefferson Davis; his appearanceet seq.; approves the terms to Leeet seq.; discusses terms for Johnstonet seq.; his desire in regard to rebel soldiers; his assassination ; its effect on the negotiations with Johnstonet seq.; instructions from–

Lincoln, Robert T., Secretary of War ; letter by

Liquor, smuggled

Lithonia

Littell, Colonel J. S

Loeser, Lieutenant

Logan, General J. A.; narrow escape of; why not chosen to succeed McPherson; sent to supersede Thomas; in command of right wing

Long, Colonel

Longstreet, General James: re-enforces Bragg; sent against Burnside; pursued

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Loomis, Colonel J. M

Loring, Lieutenant-Colonel

Los Angeles

Losses: at Shiloh; at Vicksburg–18; at Chattanooga; at Resaca ; in Sherman’s army, May; June; in Johnston’s, June; at Atlanta ; in Sherman’s and Hood’s, July; in Atlanta campaignet seq.; at Allatoona ; at Franklin; in the march to the sea; at Averysboro’; at Bentonsville . (See, also, under names of battles.)

Lost Mountain, Georgia, Confederate position at; abandoned

Loudon, Tennessee, evacuated by the rebels

Louisiana, residence inet seq.; et seq.

Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy: General Sherman superintendentet seq.; his resignationet seq.; its subsequent history

Louisville, excitement in

Lovejoy’s Station, movement to

Lucas, James H.

Lucas, James H. & Co., banking-house of

Lucas, Turner & Co., bank of

Luce, Captain S. B.

Lumpkin’s Station

Lynch Law, in San Francisco. (See Vigilance Committee.)

Lyon, General N.

McAllister, Fort, storming of

McArthur, Colonel

Macbeth, Captain

McClellan, General George B. ; appointed commander-in-chief ; succeeded by General Halleck; plan to give a command to; political attitude of

McClernand, General J. A. ; placed in command on the Mississippi ; his exultation at the capture of Arkansas Post; his report of; his claim to have taken Vicksburg and removal

McCook, A. M’D ; plan to give a command to; receives it

McCook, Daniel; wounded

McCook, General E. M.; expedition by

McCoy, Colonel J. C. .

McCrary, Lieutenant

McCulloch, General, at Pea Ridge

McDowell, General Irvin; his report of Bull Run

McDowell, General J. A.

McKinstry, Mr.

McLane, Louis

MacMahon, Marshal, quoted

McMillan, Captain

Macon, Georgia; cavalry flight near; Wilson occupies

Macon Railroad, the; move ment against

McPherson, General James B. ; General Grant’s acknowledgments to ; sent to Chattanooga; commands Department of the Tennessee; goes to Huntsville; General Sherman’s estimate of; his part in the Atlanta campaign ; at Dallas ; attacked; complains of Hooker; his last interview with Shermanet seq.; his death and burialet seq.;

McQuesten, Lieutenant

McQuinston, Colonel J. C.

Maddox, Lieutenant

Madison, Georgia

Mahan, Professor Asa

Majorities, difference between numerical and physical–24

Mangrove Islands, the

Manning, T. C.

Mansfield, J. K.

March, order of, for an army

Marches, of Sherman’s armies

March to the Sea, the; agreed to at Washington ; final correspondence with Grant onet seq.; Lincoln’s opinion of; when first thought of; begins; the army organized for; orders for conduct of et seq.; daily progress; true meaning of; Union losses in ; moral effect of

Marcy, Captain W. G.

Marcy, Hon. W. L., order from

Marietta, Georgia

Marshall, Mr.: alleged partner of Sutter; discovery of gold by

Mason, Colonel R. B.; his character ; his death

Meade, General G. G..

Meaks, General

Mehringer, Colonel J.

Meiggs, H.

Meigs, Quartermaster-General

Memphis, Tennessee: evacuated by the rebel army; condition of ; answer to application of citizens of; letter to the “Appeal,” letter to the mayor; letter to the “Bulletin,”

Merchant, Major

Mercury, mines of; distillation of

Meridian, Mississippi, occupied by the Federals

Meridian campaign, object of the

Mexican War, the preparations for ; first battles; end

Mexico: the French in; during the last days of the Empire et seq.; military mission to, its supposed object

Michler, Major

Middleburg, Mississippi, engagement at

Mill Creek, dammed

Milledgeville, Georgia; occupied; certain buildings in, destroyed

Millen, Georgia; occupied; buildings destroyed in

Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana

Mines, dispute concerning

Mining-Laws, of Mexico

Minnesota, regiments of . (See, also, Forces, organization of.)

Minor, Lieutenant

Missionary Ridge; the attack on

Mississippi, army of the; its operationset seq.

Mississippi River, the: fleet at the mouth of; fleet on ; canals for diverting the water ; Federal control ; importance

Missouri: chapter on; army operations inet seq.

Missouri, regiments of: 6th ; 8th ; 13th. (See, also, Forces, organization of.)

Mitchell, Brigadier-General

Mitchell, Sarah, married to Samuel Sherman

Mobile: visit to; feint of going to

Moccasin Point

Monterey et seq. Montgomery, Capt., loss of his sons

Moore, Surgeon John

Moore, Governor T. O., of Louisiana ; correspondence with General Shermanet seq.; his property

Moore, Colonel O. H.Morgan, Brigadier-General, G. W.Morgan, JohnMorgan, General J. D.

Morgan, Fort

Morgantown, destroyed

Mormon Island

Mormons, in the Mexican War; their intention to settle in California

Morris Island

Morton, Governor O. P.

Moultrie, Fort; described

Mower, General J. A. ; breaks the rebel line at Bentonsville

Muench’s Battery

Muldraugh’s Hill, Kentucky

Murphy, Don Timoteo

Murphy, Colonel

Murray, Colonel E. H.

Murray, Dr. R.

Mutiny, spirit of, in the army

Myers, Colonel A. C.

Naglee, Henry M.

Napoleon, last words of

Nash, Mr.

Nashville, Tennessee; importance of; preparations for defending; battle of ; results of the campaign

Nassau, New Providence

“National Intelligencer,” the, its attack on Grant

Navajoes

Negley, Brigadier-General J. S. ; plan to give command to

Negroes, faithfulness of; how utilized in march to the sea; their joy at sight of Sherman’s army ; reported slaughter of, at Ebenezer Creek; Sherman on giving the vote to; representative, meet Stanton; their opinion as to Lincoln’s policyet seq.; their opinion of Sherman ; as to State enlistement agents ; enlistment of, discussed kidnapping, by agents; order regulating enlistments; settlement of, on Sea Islands

Negro suffrage

Negro troops; reviewed by Sherman

Nelson, Brigadier-General

Newbern, North Carolina

New Hope Church, Georgia: battle at et seq.; evacuated by Johnston

New Madrid, Tennessee

New Orleans: visit to; after secession; preparations for the capture of; taken ; visit to; inauguration of a civil government at

Newspaper correspondents

Newspapers: war of; attacks of; letter to the Memphis “Appeal,” ; to the “Bulletin,” ; Southern, denounce Johnston; “New York Tribune” reveals Sherman’s true objective; War Department bulletin in “New York Times,”

Newton, General John, ordered to Chattanooga

New York, regiments of: 13th ; 29th; 69th ; incident with an officer of; 79th . (See, also, Forces, organization of.)

Nicaragua River and Lake

Nichols, Major G. Ward

Nisbet, B. R.et seq.

Nolin, Kentucky, camp at

Nolin Creek, Kentucky

Norton, Judge

Noyes, General E. P., wounded

Nullification

Oconee River, the

Ogden, Major

O’Fallon, Colonel John

Ogeechee Church, position at, abandoned by McLaws’s division

Ogeechee River, the

Ohio, reserved land in

Ohio and Mississippi Railroad

Ohio, regiments of: 2d, 5th ; 21st; 30th; 33d, 38th; 46th; 53d, 54th ; 57th; 70th ; 71st; 72d, 77th. (See Forces, organization of.) Ohio, Army of the: its strength ; losses in et seq.; strength of, during the Atlanta campaign in April; organization of

Ohio, Department of the, tri-monthly return of the

Oliver, General J. M.

Olley’s Creek, Schofield crosses

Omnibus Bill, the

Oostenaula River, bridged

Orangeburg, South Carolina, occupied and fire at

Orchard Knob

Ord, General E. O. C.; fails to connect at Iuka; pursues Van Dorn ; succeeds McClernand

Ord, Mrs. E. O. C.

Orders, methods of transmission of

Osterhaus, Brigadier-General P. J.

Owen, Captain

Owens, Captain

Oxford, Mississippi

Pacific Railroads: the building of t seq.; Poe’s report on

Paducah, Kentucky, occupied by Grant

Page, Bacon & Co., bank of ; failure of

Paine, General C. J

Palmer, General John M.: claims to rank Schofield; resigns command of Fourteenth Corps

Palo Alto, Texas, battle of

Panama, crossing the Isthmus of

Panic: in San Francisco–10; in New York

Pardee, General N., Jr.

Park, John, letter to

Parke, General J. G.

Parker, Judge

Parrott, John

Patterson, General; his army

Peach-Tree Creek, Georgia; battle oft seq.

Pea Ridge, Arkansas

Peck, Lieutenant-Colonel

Pedee River, Sherman’s army crosses the

Pemberton, General J. C. ; falls back ; his force there

Pensacola, Florida

Perry’s victory

Petersburg, Virginia; evacuated

Peyton, Bailey

Phelps, Captain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pickering, Fort, Tennessee

Pico, Don Andreas

Picolata, Florida, Sherman ordered to

Pierce, Fort

Pike, Corporal

Pillage, orders forbidding

Pillow, General G. J.; escapes from Donelson

Pillow, Fort, Tennessee; evacuated ; massacre at

Pinckney, Castle, Charleston

Pine Mountain, Georgia: Confederate position on; abandoned

Piper, Lieutenant

Pittsburg Pennsylvania, recruiting station at

Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee; battle ofet seq.

Pitzman, Captain, wounded

Pocotaligo, South Carolina

Pocotaligo, Fort

Poe, General O. M ; his report on Pacific Railroads

Politics, in San Francisco

Polk, General Leonidas ; at Shiloh ; criticizes position at Cassville ; killed

Pontoon train: on march to the sea ; composition of a

Pope, General John

Porter, Colonel Andrew; made brigadier

Porter, Admiral D. D; runs the Vicksburg batteries; appearance of his fleet ; asks for a division to capture Fort Fisheret seq.; at interview of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman; account of

Porter, General Fitz-John

Port Gibson, Mississippi, battle of

Port Hudson; surrendered

Port Royal, South Carolina

Post-traders: right of appointment of ; change of law regarding

Potomac, Army of the

Potts, General B. F.

Poyas, James

Prentiss, General B. M.

Price, General Sterling ; defeated at Pea Ridge; seizes Iuka; escapes

Prime, Captain

Prisoners: Confederate, in the Atlanta campaign; exchanges proposed ; made; condition of those escaped from Andersonville; rebel, set to dig torpedoes; escaped Union, at Columbia; number surrendered by Johnston

Property: destroyed by soldiers ; private, how treated in the march to the sea

Pryor, Mr.

Pumpkin-Vine Creek, Georgia

Purdy, Tennessee, importance of

Quaker policy, the, origin ofet seq.

Quartermaster’s Department, employés of, organized

Quicksilver, mines of. (See Mercury.)

Quinby, General L. F.

Railroads: Northern cars astray in the South; south of Atlanta, broken up; Selma and Talladega; destroyed and repairedet seq.; mode of destroying; Macon and Savannah; Gulf, Charleston, and Savannah; destruction of; South Carolina; value of, in waret seq.

Raith, Colonel

Raleigh, North Carolina; movement toward; occupied

Ransom, General T. E. G.; his death and character

Raum, Colonel G. B.

Rawlins, General John A.: letters to et seq.; 318–19; made Secretary of War; illness of

Raymond, Mississippi, fighting at

Reagan, Hon. John H.

Rebels, property of, in war-time

Reconstruction, correspondence on ; Lincoln ready for

Recruitment and promotion

Red Clay, Georgia

Redfield, Colonel, killed

Red River expedition, the

Reese, W.J.

Regular army, the; organization of, discussed; a school for officers; peace establishment of

Reilly, James

Reilly, General J. W., prompt attack by

Renick, R. M.

Resaca de la Palma, Texas

Resaca, Georgia; Sherman moves on; battle ofet seq.; evacuated by Johnston; bridge at, rebuilt; Hood demands surrender of

Retirement, bill for the, of army officers

Review, grand, at Washingtonet seq.

Reynolds, Major, J. A.

Reynolds, Captain J. F.

Reynolds, Colonel T., his imported leg

Rhett, Colonel A., captured

Rice, Lieutenant-Colonel

Rice, General E. W.

Richardson , Captain

Richardson, Brigadier-General

Richmond, Virginia: the cry “On to,” ; evacuated; Sherman’s army atet seq.

Ricker, Major

Rickett, Major

Ricord, Judge John

Rifle-trenches, described

Riley, Colonel B.

Riley, Colonel J. W.

Ringgold, Georgia, Hooker at

Rio Janeiro

Riot, a, in San Francisco

Roanoke River, the

Robertsville

Robinson, Alfred

Robinson, General J. S.

Rochester, Captain Montgomery

Rocky Face, Georgia, described

Roler, Dr.

Rolling Fork, Mississippi

Rosecrans, General W. S.; at Corinth; in Chattanooga; re-e enforcements ordered for; relieved; object of his movement

Ross, Lieutenant-Colonel W. H.

Roswell, Georgia, combat at

Rough and Ready, Georgia

Roundabout Bayou

Rousseau, Brigadier-General L. H.; his raid through Alabama

Rowett, Colonel, wounded; thanked

Rucker, Major

Ruger, General Thomas H.

Russell’s House, Mississippi, engagement at

Sacramento, California, located and surveyed; site of

St. Ange, Prof. E. B.

St. Augustine, Florida

St. Louis, Missouri: visit to; residence inet seq.; et seq.; et seq.; outbreak in; preparations for war in

St. Philip, Fort, Louisiana; passed by Farragut

Salinas River, the

Salkiehatchie River, the; line of, carried

Salt smuggled into the Confederacy

Sanborn, John B.

Sanders, Fort, Knoxville

Sandersville, Ga., occupied

San Francisco; value of lots in, in 1847, importance of its name ; scarcity of servants in; rents; and Benicia; accidental fixing of the site of; offer of banking business in et seq.; prosperity of; depreciation of real estate in; city scrip of ; failure of banks in; the Vigilantes in; business affected by them; depreciation of real estate in

Sanger, Major D.

Sanitary Commission, the

San José, California

San Juan Bautista, mission of

San Pascual, battle at

Santa Clara, California

Santa Cruz Mountains, views from

Savannah, Georgia: expedition to et seq.; final objective in the march to the sea; invested ; defenses of, and position of investing army; country about; condition of; surrender demanded; evacuated ; description of; dispatch to Lincoln concerning ; regulations for governing et seq.; its population; tranquillity of

Savannah River, the

Savannah, Tennessee

Sawyer, Major R. M.

Saxton, General Rufus; inspector of settlements and plantations

Scannell, Sheriff

Scarboro’

Scenes and incidents of the war: with an officer of the 69th N.Y.; a turkey dinner; presentation of a sword to General Grant; “Thomas’s Circus,” ; effect of a shell; a locomotive after water ; death of General Polk et seq.; hidden in an abattis ; the surprised planter; an imported leg; McPherson’s deathet seq.; Thomas’s personal traits; watching signals from Allatoona; a duplicate tunnel; railroad-mending ; the protesting planter; tapping the wire; starting on the march; negro enthusiasm; the colored patriarchs; “Forage liberally, ” ; bummers by the wayside ; loding corn; on Cobb’s plantation; a mock legislature ; firing a well; a torpedo-explosion; a fancy shot; view of the storming of Fort McAllister; signaling the fleet; “This nigger will have no sleep,” ; night near Fort McAllisteret seq.; “Fort Fisher done took,” ; soldiers’ huts ; a desolate mansion; the silent soldiers; “Hurry the general, ” ; foragers disturbed ; first view of Columbia ; occupation of Columbia; bummers and Sherman’s souvenir ; horse vs. general; night in Bethel church; the steamboat-whistle at Fayetteville; Seward saluted; Grant adopts a hobby ; army hospitalities

Schenck, General R. C.

Schimmelpfennig, General Alexander

Schoepf, General Albin

Schofield, General John M.; in command of the Department of the Ohio; consultation with ; goes to Knoxville; Sherman’s estimate of; his part in the Atlanta campaign et seq.; ordered to move against Ma-con Railroad ; falls back toward Nashville ; wins battle of Franklin ; joins Sherman ; makes supplemental terms with Johnston; letter of, on policy in North Carolina ; appointed Secretary of War

Scott, General R. K.

Scott, William

Scott, General Winfield: his management in 1833, his impatience with interfering civilians ; letter of, to Corcoran ; foretells the civil war; Washington fatal to; his controversy with Davis

Scurvy, antidotes for the

Sea Islands, set apart for negroes

Seawell, Major

Seawell, Perry & Co.

Secession: threats of; Southern belief that the Northwestern States would join in; ordinances of, passed; of Louisiana; correspondence in consequence of; perplexity of Union officers in reference to; opinion that it would be peaceably accomplished ; prospects of, in the spring of 1861, of the border States

Secretary of War, functions of

Sedalia, Missouri

Sedgwick, Captain John

Selfridge, Colonel J. L.

Seminoles: war with theet seq.; removal of the

Semple, Dr., founder of the “Alta California,”

Seton, Mr.

Settlements and plantations, inspector of

Seward, Wm. H.

Shepherd, Alexander R.

Sheridan, Major M. V.

Sheridan, General P. H. ; made major-general ; made lieutenant-general; Grant’s grounds for the promotion ; assumes command

Sherman, Charles R.: father of General W. T.; appointed judge; his death

Sherman, Charles T.

Sherman, Daniel

Sherman, Elizabeth

Sherman, Fanny (Moulton)

Sherman family, the

Sherman, Colonel Frank, captured

Sherman, Judge Taylor

Sherman, Tom

Sherman, General Thomas W.

Sherman, General W. T.: scope and purpose of his “Memoirs,” xxi et seq.; his ancestryet seq.; boyhood et seq.; adopted by Hon. T. Ewing; at West Pointet seq.; in Floridaet seq.; in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama et seq.; value of his knowledge of those States; accident to; recruits for the Mexican War; sent to California; mission to Sonomaet seq.; visits the gold-mines and reports to the Governmentet seq.; at Montereyet seq.; desires to leave the service; adjutant; removes to San Franciscoet seq.; surveying byet seq.; purchases of, in Sacramento; goes to New York; in Washington; his marriage; sent to St. Louis; to New Orleans; trip to California ; shipwrecked; resigns his commission to go into business ; removes to San Francisco; major-general of militia; resigns; removes to New York; retires from the business; practices law in Leavenworth; becomes superintendent of a military college ; correspondence on secessionet seq.; his resignation et seq.; removes to St. Louis; declines offices offeredhis letter to the Secretary of War; appointed colonel; ordered to Washington; removes from St. Louis; begins service in the civil war; reasons for not writing a history of the war ; assigned to Washington ; to the command of a brigade; march of his command ; official report on Bull Run; made brigadier ; assigned to the Department of the Ohio (afterward Cumberland); appointed to succeed General Anderson; his “insane” request for troops ; official report of forces in Kentucky; dispatches, General Wood’s statement ; transferred to Missouri ; at Sedalia; charge of insanity; recalled from Sedalia; placed in charge of camp of instruction ; ordered to Paducah; at Fort Henry; goes up the Tennessee; his plan; at Shiloh; reports of the battle, et seq.; promoted to be major-general; under Thomas; his advice to General Grant; ordered to Chewalla; at Grand Junction; under the command of Grant; ordered to take command of the District of West Tennessee; at Memphis ; his letters; organization of his division ; marches toward the Tallahatchie; to take Vicksburg; instructions by; superseded by McClernand; his plan for taking Fort Hindmanet seq.; attempt on Deer Creek; his letter to Grant–03; makes a feint on Haines’s Bluff; brigadier in the regular army; letter to General Hal-leek on reconstruction; letter on Willie’s death; goes to the aid of Rosecrans; sent to Burnside’s aid; command of the Department of the Tennessee devolves upon; ordered to Bridgeport; to Chattanooga ; to Knoxville — report by ; his report of Chattanooga ; receives the thanks of Congress; returns from Knoxville; to go down the Mississippi; surprised at Decatur; at Meridan; did not intend to go to Mobile ; correspondence with Grant ; in command of the Department of the Mississippi ; takes command of Division of the Mississippi; important general order of; considers the problem of transportation for Atlanta campaign ; letter to General Banks ; to Rawlins; changes the plan; details of plan et seq.; headquarters removed to Chattanooga; letterset seq.; moves on Resaca; at Cassville; conversations with Johnston and Hoodet seq.; moves to turn Allatoonaet seq.; reports and dispatcheset seq.; moves to turn Kenesaw and Marietta; narrow escape of; first glimpse of Atlanta ; dispatches and reports ; on the battle of Atlanta ; apology to Lincoln ; letter to General Palmer ; made major-general; dispatches and letters et seq.; enters Atlanta; on removing inhabitantset seq.; message to Governor Brown ; on alienating Georgia from Confederacy; dispatches et seq.; proposes the march to the sea; pursues Hood; on defense of Allatoona; urges the march to the sea ; first idea of it; invited to dine at Covington; enters Milledgeville; adventures et seq.; announces his arrival at the sea-coast; visits Foster ; enters Savannah; plans of; orders regarding Savannah et seq.; plan for northward movement; declines to co-operate in capture of Fort Fisher; order on cotton ; accused of hostility to negroes et seq.; at Beaufortet seq.; order for enlistment of negroes; only acts of vandalism; disapproves of attack on Fort Moultrie ; letters; beginning of Carolina campaign; reaches Blackville; at the Edisto; enters Columbia ; interview with a negro ; letters,et seq.; at Bentonsville; at Goldsboro’ ; letterset seq.; visits Grant and meets Lincoln; confident of closing the war with one more battle; at Raleigh; moves on Ashboro’; grants truce; meets Johnston ; terms granted ; letterset seq.; on Stanton’s attack; at Port Royal and Charlestonet seq.; indignation at War Department bulletin ; and Halleck; rejects Stanton’s hand; his farewell order; assigned to Division of the Mississippi; helps on Pacific Railroads; lieutenant-general; goes to Mexico; invitation from Bazaine; subsequent interview at Paris; suggestion concerning Stanton; letters et seq.; protests against appointment as Secretary of War ad interim; goes to St. Louis; dispatches; letterset seq.; called to Washington; made general of the army; letter on powers of general of the army; controversy with Belknap; visits Europe; removes head quarters to St. Louis; to Washington; intention to retire; final inspection tour; retirementet seq.; letter to President Arthur

“Sherman’s March to the Sea,” poem by Adjutant Byers

Sherman, Mrs. W. T

Sherman, Willie ; his death; letter of General Sherman on

Shiloh, battle of: referred to; account ofet seq.; General Sherman’s report of; reports concerning, at the North ; the victory; summary of; losses; effect of, on General Sherman’s reputation; battle of, exhaustion after

Ship’s Gap, Georgia

Shipwrecks: of the Lewis; of a schooner; of the Golden Age

Shiras, Captain

Shreveport, Louisiana; movement against

Shubrick, Commodore

Sick, the: charge of cruelty to; treatment of the wounded and

Sierra Nevada, project for a railroad through the

Sieges, too slow

Sigel, General Franz

Signal Service, seldom to be depended upon in war

Silversparre, Captain

Simons, Mrs. James, burned out at Columbiaet seq.

Sister’s Ferry, crossing at

Sisters of Charity, at Columbia, burned out

Skirmishers, best method of advance of

Slanders, rebel, refuted by acts

Slavery: question of, in California ; fears of, a crusade against; Sherman’s views of, called for ; excitement in Louisiana over; why not mentioned in Sherman’s terms to Johnston

Slaves: value of learning in; policy of the North concerning

Slidell, Senator

Sloat, Commodore

Slocum, General H. W.: assigned to the Vicksburg District; succeeds Hooker; enters Atlanta; sends out foragers; at Milledgeville; fights the battle of Bentonsvilleet seq.; made commander of the Army of Georgia;

Smiley, James

Smiley, Thomas

Smith, General A. J. ; defeats Forrest

Smith, General C. F.

Smith, Prof. F. W. ; his death

Smith, General George W., in command of Georgia militia;

Smith, Mrs. G. W.

Smith, General Giles A.; his report; wounded; crosses the Edisto;

Smith, General John E.

Smith, General Martin Luther

Smith, General Morgan L. ; wounded

Smith, General Persifer F.

Smith, Dr. S. A.; correspondence with; his service in the Confederate army and death

Smith, General T. Kilby

Smith, W. F. (Baldy)

Smith, General W. Sooy

Smyrna, Georgia, combat at

Smyzer, Lieutenant

Snake Creek

Snake Creek Gap, movement on Resaca by

Snelling, Lieutenant

Snyder, J. R.

Soap Creek

Soldiers: pillage by; insults to ; readiness of, at intrenchment, effect of the weather on; of Fifteenth Corps on the second Atlanta sortie; conduct of, in march to the sea ; gay confidence of; skill in foraging; Southern, Lincoln’s wish in regard to; on the march; know when they are well commanded

Sonoma, California: dispute about the control of; Sherman sent to; headquarters at

Sorghum, Camp

South, the: should have been treated as solid for rebellion; classes of people in the; their energy, yielding; disaffection in; secession of. (See Secession.)

South Carolina: punishment in store for; feeling against

Spade and axe, value of

Spencer, Colonel G. E.

Sprague, General J. W.

Spring Hill, Tennessee

Staff, personnel of Sherman’set seq.;composition of a

Stambaugh, Samuel

Stanley, Lieutenant Fabius

Stanley, General D. S. ; wounded

Stanton, Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, his controversy with General Sherman

Stanton, Secretary E. M.: objects to employment of certain officers ; at Savannah; obliterates marks on cotton; accuses General Davis; confers with negroeset seq.; order by; dispatch from; disapproves of terms to Johnston; attacks Shermanet seq.; bulletin to General Dix; dispatch from ; resumes possession of his office; resigns

Stark

State Governors

Steamers, first, in California; first line of mail; scarcity of

Steadman, Colonel

Steedman, General J. B.

Steed, Colonel O. W

Steele, General Frederick ; to move on Shreveport; in command of the Department of the Arkansas ; mentioned

Steele’s Bayou, Mississippi, expedition to

Steinberger, Baron

Stephens, Alexander H.

Stevens, Lieutenant T. H.

Stevenson, Colonel J. D.

Stewart, Mrs. A. P.

Stewart, General

Stewart, Senator

Stiles, General J. N.

Stockton, Commodore

Stockton, California

Stoddard, Major Amos, estate of

Stoddard, Elizabeth (Sherman)

Stoddard, Henry

Stone, General C. P.

Stone, Colonel G. A.

Stoneman, General George

Stone Mountain, Georgia

Strickland, Colonel S. A.

Strong, Brigadier-General

Stuart, A. H. H., Secretary of the Interior

Stuart, General David ; his character and death

Sturgis, General S. D.

Sully, Lieutenant Alfred

Sumter, Fort: building of bombardment of Anderson’s dispatch announcing surrender of

Sunflower, the

Supplies, in march to the sea

Surgeons, duties of

Sutter, Captain; locates Sacramento; member of convention

Sutter’s Fort: in 1848, discovery of gold

Sutterville, site of

Swain, Mr.

Swan, Colonel

Swords, Colonel Thomas

Syke’s Regulars

Symonds, Captain

Taft, Lieutenant-Colonel, death of

Taft, Judge Alphonso, made Secretary of War

Taliaferro, Cadet

Tallahatchee River, the

Tappan, S. F.

Taylor, Colonel Ezra ; wounded

Taylor, N. G.

Taylor, General Richard

Taylor, General Zachary his illness and death; apprehensions regarding his successor ; Washington fatal to

Tecumseh

Telegraph, the, value of, in war

Tennessee: people of, appeal to President Lincoln; Hood’s campaign inet seq.

Tennessee, Army of the; orders for; reorganized; scattered ; thanks to strength of, at various times, allowed to fight almost alone at Atlanta losses of et seq.; organization of, April farewell order to

Tennessee, Department of the et seq.

Tennessee River, the, plan for movement on; operations on et seq.

Tents

“Tenure of office” controversyet seq.

Terry, General A. H.

Terry, Chief-Justice; arrested by the Vigilantes

Texas, annexation of

Thirteenth Regulars ; letter to

Thistle, Captain, inventor of a gun

Thomas, Frank

Thomas, General G. H. ; carries Missionary Ridge his attack at Chattanooga in command of Department of the Cumberland General Sherman’s estimate of ; his part in the Atlanta campaign; et seq.; his exposed position at Cassville his personal traits; praised ; his opinion on the situation ; to meet Hood dispatch of; pressure on; wins the battle of Nashville ;called slowet seq.; major-general

Thomas, Adjutant-General Lorenzo ; letter of General Sherman to; appointed Secretary of War ad interim

Thomas, Colonel M. T.

Thornton, Judge

Throckmorton, Lieutenant

Tidball, Colonel J. C.

Tiptonville, rebels captured at

Torpedoes, set on the road near Savannah

Tourtelotte, Colonel J. E.: in command at Allatoona; wounded

Tower, General Z. B.

Townsend, General E. D.

Traders, forbidden to go to Atlanta

Treasury agents, Sherman’s opinion of

Troops: where sent ; report of those in Kentucky–90; Confederate, in Kentucky; number of Union, required Tule-bolsa

Tumlin, Colonel Lewis

Tunnel Hill; fighting at

Tuttle, Brigadier-General J. M.

Twiggs, General D.

Tyler, General Daniel

Ulcofauhachee River

Union men, of the South

“Uncle Billy,”

Vallas, Professor Anthony

Vallejo, General; Benicia named for his wife

Vallejo, Juan Antonio, ranch of

Valparaiso

Van Brunt, Captain

Vance, Governor, flees from Raleigh

Van Cleve, Colonel

Vandever, General W.

Van Dorn, General, at Pea Ridge threatens Corinth; his advantages; at Corinth devices for securing supplies for his army; captures Grant’s stores

Van Ness, Mr., Mayor of San Francisco

Van Vliet, Major S.

Vaughn, General

Veatch, General J. C,

Vicksburg, Mississippi: Farragut at ; plans for the capture of et seq.; surroundings of ; plan of attack; the attack; reason of its failure ; reenforcements in responsibility for the failure importance of the capture of preparations foret seq.; General Sherman’s opinion his letter on; Grant’s orders for the movement on ; passed by the fleet ; assaults on stronger than Sevastopol surrounded; surrendered ; losses at; value of capture; plan exclusively Grant’s

Vidal, Bayou

Vienna

Vigilance Committee, in San Francisco

Vining’s Station, Georgia

Volkmar, Captain W. J.

Wade, Senator B. F.

Wadsworth, Major

Waggaman, Major

Wagon-trains, in march to the sea

Walcutt, General C. C. ; wounded

Walker, Robert J.

Walkinshaw, Mr.

Wallace, General Lew

Wallace, General W. H. L.

Walnut Hills, Vicksburg

War: inevitable destruction of property in; the highest pleasure of

War of 1812, the

War, the civil: preparations foret seq.; general opinion that it would be shortet seq.; impatience of the people; necessity for the Government to assume the offensive in; to fight it out the only way; report of committee on, referred to for details; responsibility foret seq.; necessary evils ofet seq.; lessons of et seq.; long foreseen; prompt preparation for, at the South; slowness to realize its certain coming at the North

War Department, the, clerkship in, offered to W. T. Sherman

War, the Mexican. (See Mexican War.)

Ward, post-trader, removal of

Ward, Frank

Ward, General W. T

Warner, Lieutenant of Engineers ; killed by Indians

Warner, Brigadier-General Willard

Washburn, Colonel H. D.

Washington. C.: first visit to; as a residence; danger of remaining in; growth of

Washington, Captain; his death

Waterhouse’s battery

Watkins, Commodore

Wauhatchee, Tennessee

Wayne, Brigadier-General Henry C, at the Oconee

Waynesboro’, cavalry fight at

Weaver, Clark R, answer to Hood’s summons

Weber, Captain, owner of the site of Stockton

Webster, Daniel: prophecy of, concerning California; Secretary of State; his last speech in the Senate

Webster, General J. D.

Weldon, North Carolina

Welker, Major F

Weston, Missouri

West Point Academy: preparation for ; appointment to; journey to ; professors; graduation at

Wheat, Colonel

Wheeler, Gen. J. ; reported slaughter t seq.

White House, Tennessee

Whitfield, Brigadier-General

Whiting, Lieutenant

Whittington, W. W

Wickliffe, R. C,

Wilderness, battles in the

Wilkinson, Mr., correspondent of the “New York Tribune,”

Wilkinson, Mrs

Williams, General A. S.

Williams, J. M.

Williams, General Thomas

Williamson, Captain

Williamson, Colonel J. A

Willich, Colonel

Willow Bayou

Wilmington, North Carolina, proposed expedition to

Wilmot Proviso, the

Wilson, General J. H.

Wimmer, Mr.

Winnegar, Captain

Winson, Major J. A

Wisconsin, excellent recruiting system of

Wisconsin, Regiments of: 2d, (See, also, Forces, organization of.) Wise, Lieutenant Henry

Wise, Henry A

Wolford, Colonel

Wolf River, the

Wood, Fort, Chattanooga

Wood, Lieutenant P. P.

Wood, Brigadier-General T. J. ; statement by

Wool, General John E.

Workman, Cadet

Worthington, Colonel Thomas

Wounded and dead, care of the

Wright, Judge, of Rome

Wright, Colonel C. J.

Wright, Lieutenant-Colonel J. S., commanding brigade

Wright, Colonel W. W

Yalabusha River, the

Yates, Richard, Governor, of Illinois

Yazoo River, the

Yeatman, James E., sends supplies to Andersonville

Yerba Buena, old name of San Francisco

Young, Captain

Young’s Point

Zollicoffer, General