Read Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Online
Authors: James M. McPherson
Tags: #General, #History, #United States, #Civil War Period (1850-1877), #United States - History - Civil War; 1861-1865, #United States - History - Civil War; 1861-1865 - Campaigns
goes to Shenandoah Valley,
758
attacks Early at Winchester and Fisher's Hill,
777
lays waste to Shenandoah Valley,
778
–79,
784
,
815
battle of Cedar Creek,
779
–81,
858
returns to Petersburg front,
844
battle of Five Forks,
845
pursues Lee,
847
at Appomattox,
848
Sherman, John: and 1859 speakership fight,
200
–201
senator,
329
on growing emancipation sentiment,
496
and war finance,
594
Sherman, William Tecumseh,
329
,
483
,
501
,
785
and march to the sea,
198
,
325
,
806
,
808
–11,
815
,
816
transfer from Kentucky,
305
on vulnerability of railroads,
575
Vicksburg campaign,
577
–78,
586
–87
Chickasaw Bluffs assault,
579
denounces trade with enemy,
622
1863 Vicksburg campaign,
627
–31,
635
,
637
–38
goes to Chattanooga,
675
fighting in Chattanooga,
677
–78
commander of western theater armies,
718
Atlanta campaign,
719
,
722
,
723
,
743
–56
and soldier vote in Indiana,
804
march through Carolinas,
825
–28,
838
,
844
and the burning of Columbia,
829
battle of Bentonville,
830
Order No. 15 (land for freedmen),
841
–42
army of, in Grand Review,
853
qualities of generalship,
857
Shields, James,
457
–60
Shiloh, battle of,
405
–13,
471
,
478
,
483
,
580
consequences of,
414
–15,
416
,
418
Shoup, Francis,
834
Sickles, Daniel E.: political general,
328
at Gettysburg,
657
–60
Sigel, Franz, named general,
328
at Wilson's Creek,
351
at Pea Ridge,
405
at 2nd Bull Run,
642
Shenandoah Valley campaign of,
722
–23,
734
battle of New Market,
724
Slave trade, African: closing of,
37
movement to reopen,
102
–3
illegal trading,
103
Slavery: economics of,
6
–8,
33
,
39
,
96
–102
as divisive sectional issue,
7
–8,
28
,
38
–41,
54
relation to caste and class in South,
199
–200
correlation with secession,
242
,
255
,
283
–84
as issue in Civil War,
311
–12
North and,
354
–58
McClellan on,
363
–64
and North during 1862,
494
–500,
502
–10
as stumbling block to British recognition of Confederacy,
552
–53
and 20–Negro draft exemption in South,
611
–12
as issue in Confederate debate over arming blacks,
831
–37.
See also
Emancipation
Proslavery argument
Slavery in the territories: issue of,
4
,
8
,
41
,
46
,
51
–72
and Compromise of 1850,
70
–77
drive for annexation of new slave territory,
103
–16,
194
–95
and Kansas-Nebraska Act,
122
–26
Lincoln on,
127
–30
and 1856 election,
154
–62
as issue in Lincoln-Douglas debates,
182
–84,
186
–87
and federal slave code controversy,
195
,
214
and 1860 election,
227
Slidell, John: supports filibustering,
109
,
195
and French policy in Mexico,
553
–54
expects French recognition,
555
,
650
Smalls, Robert,
564
Smith, Adam,
96
Smith, Edmund Kirby: and invasion of Kentucky,
516
–20,
524
,
534
,
838
and treatment of captured black soldiers,
566
command of trans-Mississippi Department,
668
Smith, Joseph,
43
–44
Smith, Truman,
125
Smith, William F.,
740
Sons of Liberty: and antiwar activities,
762
,
763
exaggerated notions about,
764
–65
Lincoln on,
783
Soulé Pierre,
107
–8,
110
,
112
,
113
South: contrasts with North,
39
–41,
860
antebellum political power of,
53
,
54
n
and antebellum economic matters,
91
–102,
192
–93,
195
–96
Cavalier thesis,
197
Civil War wrenches to a new direction,
860
–61.
See also
Confederate States of America
proslavery argument
Secession
Slavery
South Mountain, battle of,
537
Southern Commercial Conventions,
93
,
100
support reopening of slave trade,
102
–3
and annexation of new slave territory,
104
,
113
–14
Southern Literary Messenger:
on
Uncle Tom's Cabin
,
90
Cavalier thesis,
197
and Jefferson Davis,
428
Spaulding, Elbridge G.,
445
–46
Speed, Joshua,
353
Spotsylvania, battle of,
728
–33,
735
,
812
Stanton, Edwin M.,
506
as Buchanan's attorney-general,
266
Lincoln's war secretary,
324
and General Stone,
363
fears
C.S.S. Virginia
,
376
creates Union ram fleet,
417
relaxes internal security,
436
suspends recruiting,
437
and McClellan's Peninsula campaign,
464
,
468
and new enlistments in 1862,
492
–93
disgust with McClellan,
504
and western strategy,
511
and railroad logistics,
514
McClellan attacks,
525
and 2nd Bull Run,
532
wants McClellan's removal,
533
McClellan wants Stanton's removal,
569
sends Dana west,
589
prods Rosecrans,
669
and transfer of troops to Chattanooga,
675
and breakdown of p.o.w. exchange,
792
–93
and southern prisons,
797
reduces prisoner rations,
798