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Schoepf, Brig.
General Albin, 131

Sciota,
U.S.
gunboat, 245 Scott, Thomas,   124,   137-38,

139,
344 Scott, General Winfleld, 25, 27,

44,
50, 58, 75, 76, 77, 78-80,

81,
82-83, 84, 85-86, 93, 108,

116

Search and seizure at
sea, right of, 107

Second
Minnesota Infantry, 130 Secret Service, U. S. Army, 256-57

Sedalia,
Missouri, 26 Seddon, James A., 339-40 Sedgwick, Major General John, 432

Seven Days Battle, 308-20, 322, 415

Seven Pines, Battle
of, 296-98, 299

Seventy-ninth
New York Infantry, 93 Severn River, 259, 260

Seward,
Fanny, 120, 134 Seward, William H., 3-4, 5, 6, 30, 39, 78, 81, 97, 104, 105-6,
107, 108, 109, 124, 318, 324-25, 327, 349, 376, 420, 439

Sewell's
Point, 265 Sharpsburg, Battle of, 428 Shaw, Colonel H. M., 159 Shaw, Robert
Gould, 440 Shenandoah Valley,  44,  165, 166, 183, 251, 253, 278, 280, 282,
283, 286, 296, 370, 371, 401, 402, 435 Sherman, Brig. General Thomas

W.,
92, 93, 96-98, 100 Sherman, Major General William T., 24, 38, 57, 58, 59,
60-61, 62, 217, 219, 221, 338, 340, 385 Shields, Brig. General James, 252-53,
282, 283, 284, 287, 289, 300 Shiloh, Battle of, 62, 144, 206,

217-26,
231-32, 361 Ship Island, 157, 233, 375 Shorter, Governor J. G., 448 Sickness 
and  disease,   45-46,

119-20,
305, 335 Sigel, Brig. General Franz, 14, 18, 19, 209, 364, 401, 407, 408

Sitlington's Hill, 283

Slavery
issue, 2, 5, 6, 55-56, 81, 115-16, 173-75, 182, 270-71, 344-53, 438-39, 445-46

Slaves, Negro, 96, 97, 100, 115-16, 117,
344-53, 366, 386, 424;
see also
Fugitive
slaves

Slidell, John, 102-9

Slocum,
Major General Henry, 314

Smith,
Brig. General Charles F.,

147,
149, 154, 220 Smith, Caleb, 420 Smith, Major General Edmund

Kirby,
293, 362, 363, 378,

387,
388-89, 390, 391, 394,

447

Smith,
Major General Gustavus

W.,
66, 74, 238
Smith, Isaac,
U.S.S.,
94 Somerset, Kentucky, 60 South Atlantic coast, 90-92, 98,

101,
111, 125, 250 South Carolina, invasion of, 94-

98,
99-101 South Mountain, 424, 425, 426,

427

Speed,
James, 39 Sperryville, Virginia, 370 Springfield, Missouri, 13-14, 17,

19, 20, 21, 157, 208 Stanton, Edwin M.,
133-36, 138, 139, 153, 154, 157, 166, 180, 182, 184, 187, 199, 241-42, 250,
254, 258, 264, 265, 266, 268, 273, 274, 276, 281, 284, 287-88, 303, 307, 316,
317-18, 329, 330-31, 349, 368, 385, 415, 419-20, 423, 438, 453

Stark,
Benjamin, 270 State sovereignty, 67-68 Staunton, Virginia, 44, 45, 280,

282, 283 Stephens, Alexander, 69, 72,
74,

162, 164, 172, 280 Stevens, Brig.
General Isaac,

413

Stevens, 
Thaddeus,   1-2,   123,

133,
175 Stevenson, Alabama, 355, 388 Stimers, Alban C, 203

Stone,
Brig. General Charles
P.,

84,
178-83 Stone's River, Battle of, 62, 455
Stonewall
Jackson,
C.S. ram,

247

Strasburg,
Virginia, 282, 283-

84, 285, 288-89, 300
Stringham, Flag Officer Silas,

88,
89

Strother,
David H., 434, 440, 442

Stuart, Brig. General
James Ewell Brown, 83-84, 301, 396, 413, 425, 430, 452

Sturgis,
Major Samuel D., 20

Sudley
Springs ford, 408, 409, 411, 412

Sumner, Charles,
80-81, 178, 295

Sumner,  
General  Edwin  V., 187, 253, 255, 296, 297, 298, 304, 305, 411, 418, 431, 432
Sumter, Fort, 38, 58
Susquehanna,
U.S.S.,
88

Tattnall,
Flag Officer Josiah, 94, 95

Teaser,
C.S.
gunboat, 198 Tennessee River, 40, 59, 127, 137, 138, 139, 141, 163, 205, 206,
207, 215, 354, 389 Thirty-eighth Tennessee Infantry, 218

Thomas,
Brig. General George H., 38, 57, 59-60, 127, 130, 131-32, 137, 144, 155, 291,
394, 449-50 Thomas, Adjutant General Lorenzo, 25, 135, 322, 326 Thomas, Thomas
W., 72, 73 Thompson, Jeff, 63, 358 Thoroughfare Gap,  188, 189, 397, 402, 403,
405, 407

Tift, Asa
and Nelson, 240-41 Tilghman, Brig. General Lloyd, 142

Tiptonville,
Tennessee, 227, 229, 231

Tod,
Governor David, 390 Tompkinsville, Kentucky, 389 Toombs, Brig. General Robert,

68, 72, 170-71, 280, 381, 396 Trading with
the enemy, 332-

43,
386

Treasury
agents, 337-38, 340, 341

Treasury
Department, Confederate, 381, 382
Trent,
H.M.S.,
103, 104, 106
Trent
affair,
102-10 Trumbull, Lyman, 85, 122 Tupelo, Mississippi, 292, 293,

294,
361, 362 Turner, Major Levi, 442 Turner's Gap, 426, 427 Twentieth Indiana
Infantry, 194 Twiggs, Major General David

E.,
238 Tygart River, 47
Tyler,
U.S.
gunboat, 146

Union
Pacific Railroad, 210 Urbanna, Virginia,  121,  136, 186, 187

Van
Alen, Colonel J. H., 181 Van Brunt, Captain G. J., 202 Van Dorn, Major General
Earl, 207-8, 209, 210, 211, 213,

291,   357,
359, 360, 362, 449
Varuna,
U.S.S.,
247
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 62, 290,

292,            293, 356-57, 359-60,
362,
455

Victoria,
Queen, 104, 107

Vie
Politique et Militaire de

Napolion,
82
Virginia, 
C.S.  
ironclad,  194-

203,
259, 265 Virginia Central Railroad, 307,

370

Volunteers, 11, 12, 113-14, 383-84, 385

Wabash,
U.S.S., 87, 92, 94, 95 Wade, Benjamin
Franklin, 85,

86,
176-77, 178, 181 Wadsworth,    Brig.     General

James,
188, 254 Wales, Prince of, 105 Walke, Commander Henry, 229,

230-31,
359 Walker, Fort, 94-96, 99 Walker, Leroy Pope, 37, 68 Wallace, Major General
Lew,

147,
149, 220, 223, 225, 390-

91

Wallace,
General W. H. L., 220, 222

War
aims, paper on, 328

Ward,
Artemus, 437

Ward,
Samuel, 26G

War Department, Confederate, 66-67, 68,
111, 156, 170, 172, 238, 241, 339, 342, 382, 393

War Department, U.
S., 24, 39, 42, 61, 82, 90, 92, 93, 96, 99, 132, 133, 137, 155, 159, 255, 287,
315, 317, 324, 327, 338, 394, 436, 452, 453

Warren,
Fort, 103

Warren, Colonel
Gouverneur K., 328

Warrenton,
Virginia, 403, 404, 453

Warrenton
Pike, 405, 407, 411 Warwick River, 260 Washburne, Elihu B., 27

Washington,
D.C., 78, 80, 81, 119, 122, 251, 272, 275, 286, 287

Washington
(Ark.)
The Telegraph,
169
Watts, Thomas Hill, 170 Webb, Alexander S., 329, 373-74

Webster, Daniel, 4

Weed, Thurlow, 108

Welles, Gideon, 78,
92, 103,

199,
200, 232, 243, 334, 349,

360,
420, 422-23, 438 West Point, Virginia, 258 West Point Military Academy,

122-23
Westport, Missouri, 53 West Virginia, contest for, 42-

49,
111, 128, 253 Wheeling, West Virginia, 43 White  House,  Virginia,  274,

301,
305, 306, 319 White Oak Swamp, 296, 303,

304,
316 Whiting, Brig. General William

H.
C., 302, 309 Whittle, Commander William

C,
242 Wickliffe, C. A., 175 Wilder, Colonel John T., 391-92 Wilderness Road, 56
Wilkes, Captain Charles, 102-4,

106,
107, 108, 109 Wilkes Land, 102 Williams,  Brig.   General   Al-

pheus,
284 Williams, Brig. General Thorn

as,
357, 360

Williamsburg, Battle of, 264,

266,
297 Williamsport, Maryland,  286,

435

Wilmington,  North  Carolina,

157,
333, 334-36, 343 Wilson, Lieut. James Harrison,

100

Wilson's Creek, Battle of, 17,

18-21,
22, 25, 49 Winchester, Virginia, 166, 185,

252, 253, 285, 286, 301, 435 Winder,
Brig. General Charles

S.,
371 Wingo's infantry, 16
Winona,
U.S.
gunboat, 248 Wise, Brig. General Henry A.,

45, 46, 48, 158, 160, 161 Wool, Brig.
General John E.,

254, 265, 278, 318 Worden, Lieut. John,
201, 202,

203

Yancey,
William L., 170, 385, 444

Yazoo
City, Tennessee, 358 Yazoo River, 359, 360 York River, 258, 259, 265
Yorktown,
C.S. gunboat, 198 Yorktown, Virginia,
239, 258-60, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 267-68, 279, 280, 281, 310

Zollicoffer,
Brig. General Felix Kirk, 54-55, 57, 59, 127, 130-31, 132

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