Pinola, Federal gunboat, 99 Pipe Creek, Meade's army at,
Pittsburg Landing, see Shiloh Pittsburgh, Federal ironclad at Fort Donelson, 135; at Island Number Ten, 145 Pleasant Hill, battle, 330 Pleasonton, General
cavalry leader, 305 Point Pleasant (Ohio), Grant born at, 130
Pope, General John, Grant declines patronage of, 181; Island Number Ten, 144, 145; reinforces Halleck at Pittsburg Landing, 155; transfer to Virginia, 159, 226; quoted, 226-27; within reach of Jackson and Lee, 229; retires safely, 230; Jackson captures dispatches of, 230; Lee divides army against, 231; Jackson's plan against, 232; Jackson march- es around, 232-34; reinforce- ment, 234; Jackson eludes, 235; Second Bull Run, 237, 238, 239, 240, 242, 243 Port Gibson (Mississippi), 270 Port Hudson (Louisiana), 110, 117, 156, 261, 265, 278, 310 Port Republic (Virginia), 216, 217 Port Royal (South Carolina), Confederate defeat, 92; Grant moves base to, 350 Porter, Admiral D. D., con- ceives idea of attack on New Orleans, 93; on Mississippi, 108, 167; succeeds Davis, 110; capture of Arkansas Post, 164; Vicksburg cam- paign, 261, 262, 266, 267, 274; Mississippi command, 278; attacks Fort Fisher, 324, 325; on Red River, 380; at City Point conference, 884, 385
Porter, Commander W. D., at Fort Henry, 127
Potter, Captain R. M., on Lee's decision, 10 Powell, Fort, 320
Powhatan, U. S. S., Porter commands, 93
Prentiss, General B. M., at Shiloh, 149, 151
Press, perverts public opinion, 176-77; no government cen- sorship, 333
Prestonburg, Garfield defeats Marshall near, 125
Price, Sterling, becomes Con- federate general, 27; takes Lexington (Missouri), 120; Grant prevents reinforce- ments for, 121; attacks Cur- tis in Missouri, 143; against Grant, 161; defeated at Iuka, 162-63 Privateers, 16, 68 Profiteers, 61
Pulaski, Fort, 93, 372
Quaker City, Confederate gun- boats attack, 309
Rations, before Vicksburg, 269-70; Grant supplies Lee's army, 392
Rawlins, J. A., Grant's chief staff officer, 135 Raymond (Mississippi), battle, 271
Read, Colonel Theodore, at Sailor's Creek, 387 Red River Expedition (1864), 318, 329, 337, 847, 849
Commander, fires mine-ship Louisiana, 324 Rich Mountain (Virginia), battle, 30, 31-32 Richmond, plan to raid Har- per's Ferry arranged at, 20; Federal objective, 34, 35, 200, 204, 336, 342; Tredegar Iron Works, 64; Grant and Lee at grips around, 186; McClellan threatens, 201, 203, 204, 210, 217, 223; plan to evacuate, 202; change of plan, 202; Jackson starts for, 207; Magruder to hold, 223; saved, 243; Sheridan's raid, 344, 345-46; Grant marches toward, 350; consternation after Cold Harbor, 355; Army of the James against, 356
Richmond, Federal ship, 102 "River Defense Fleet," 70, 97
River War (1862), 116 et seq.;
(1863), 260 et seq., 327 Roanoke Island captured, 93 "Rock of Chickamauga," nick- name for General Thomas, 280, 370
Rodgers, Commander John, and first flotilla on Missis- sippi, 118 Roe, Commander of the Sas- sacus, 319
Rosecrans, General W. S., suc- ceeds McClellan, 30; Army of Mississippi under, 160; holds Memphis-Corinth rails, 161; replaces Buell, 162;
victory at Corinth, 163; com- mands Army of Cumberland, 164; Stone's River, 164-65; maneuvers Bragg south, 279; Thomas supersedes, 280; Confederate plan to crush, 287; Chattanooga, 305
Sabine Cross Roads (Louisi-
ana), Banks's defeat at, 330 Sabine Pass (Texas), in Con- federate hands, 115, 310 Sable Island, Butler's troops at, 104
Sailor's Creek (Virginia), Lee's defeat at, 387
St. Louis, Haskins goes to, 6; Lyon commands at, 25, 28; Lyon marches prisoners through, 27; Harney makes peace, 27; conference, 27-28; Frémont's headquarters, 118; Frémont fortifies, 119; Hal- leck's headquarters, 121 St. Louis, Federal gunboat,
Scott, General-Continued tary adviser at Washington, 33, 36; civilian interference with, 33, 37; Grant's admir- ation for, 181; prevision, 147; “Anaconda policy, " 184 Seddon, J. A., Confederate
Secretary of War, 252 Sedgwick, General John, Vir- ginia campaign, 256 Selma (Alabama), Southern cannon made at, 64 Seminary Ridge, Lee's head- quarters, 296
Semmes, Captain Raphael of Alabama, 311, 315, 316 Seven Days' Battle, 223–26; balloon used in, 63 Seven Pines (Virginia), battle,
Seward, W. H., Secretary of State, 179; on McClellan, 188
Sharpsburg, see Antietam Shenandoah, Confederate raid- er, 69, 311, 326, 381 Shenandoah Brigade, First, Jackson in command of, 25
Shenandoah Valley, Johnston in, 36; Sheridan's raid, 189; Kernstown, 198-99; posi- tions (April, 1862), 200; forces, 200, 204; Jackson's maneuvers, 205-07; Mc- Dowell, 208-09, 216; Front Royal, 210-12; Winchester, 212; pursuit of Banks, 212- 213; summary of Jackson's accomplishment in, 214-15; pursuit of Jackson, 215-16; Cross Keys, 216; Port Re- public, 216; Jackson's strat- egy, 216-17; Ewell in, 291; Stanton's interference, 331- 333; Sigel in, 337; Hunter's retreat, 356; Early in, 356, 362; Sheridan in, 362; Ope- quan Creek, 362; "Sheri-
dan's Ride," 363-64; Cedar Creek, 363-64; Federal vic- tory, 364 Sheridan, General P. H., raid helps Lincoln's reëlection, 189; Chattanooga, 285; Stanton falsifies Grant's or- der to, 332-33; as a general, 337-38; Grant and, 339, 340, 348; Todd's Tavern, 342; Richmond raid, 344, 345-46; Cold Harbor, 350, 351; raid, 355; Trevilian, 355; Opequan Creek, 362; "Sheridan's Ride," 363-64; in Washington, 362; later operations, 384; Five Forks, 386 Sherman, General W. T., col- onel in Louisiana State Mili- tary 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 in- sane, 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 Tennes- see, 280; Chattanooga, 281, 282, 283, 285; Red River Expedition spoils stragegy of, 318, 347; and Stan- ton, 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-
Sherman, General-Continued
358; battle of Atlanta, 358- 359; asks reinforcements, 360; announces fall of Atlanta, 361; Lincoln's reply to, 362; campaign (1864), 366 et seq.; quoted, 366; at Atlanta, 366-67; Hood's attempt on Allatoona, 369-70; pre- ponderance of force, 370; March to the Sea, 372-76; presents Savannah to Lin- coln, 376-77; march through Carolinas, 381-83; confer- ence at City Point (Virginia), 384-85; terms of surrender to Johnston, 386, 394; on Lincoln, 393-94 Shields, General James, Kerns-
town, 198, 199; at Catlett's Station, 204; Port Republic,
Shiloh, Grant's army assem- bles near, 143, 146; Confeder- rate 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; Far- ragut 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 Shen- andoah Valley, 337; Hunter replaces, 350 Simpson, Grant's mother's name, 129
Slavery, Lee and, 19; see also Emancipation, Negroes Slemmer, Lieutenant, com- mand at Pensacola, 3; de- fends Fort Pickens, 4-5
Smith, General Kirby, Bull Run, 53
Smith, William, quartermaster on Kearsarge, 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 also Navy, 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 also Carolinas, Charles- ton
South Mountain, Stuart at, 245 Spotsylvania (Virginia), battle, 342-43
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; for- bids use of cipher, 330-31; 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, ex- pedition against Hatteras forts, 85
Stuart, J. E. B., 255; Confeder- ate cavalry leader, Martins- burg, 37-38; Bull Run, 44, 45, 51; raid around Mc- Clellan,
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
Tilghman, General Lloyd, sur- renders Fort Henry, 128 Tod, Judge, Jesse Grant in home of, 130 Todd's Tavern battle, 342 Transportation, 64-66; means of communication in Vir- ginia 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., sur- renders Texas garrisons, 8, 9, 165
Undine, gunboat taken with cavalry, 368
Union Mills (Virginia), ford defended, 46
United States, population (1861), 60-61; see also North, South
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