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MITCHELL, GEN. R. B., at Perryville, 220. MITCHELLSVILLE, Morgan's raid on, 271. MIX, COL. S. H., killed at Petersburg, Va., 585. MOBILE BAY, the fight in, 641; the outer defenses of, 649; map of the defenses of, 650. MOBILE, Ala., preparations for attack on, 721; 722; Maury abandons, 724.

MONITOR, arrival of the, at Fortress Monroe, 118; fight of, with the Merrimac, 118; 119. MONOCACY, Lew Wallace defeated at the, 603. MONROE, JOHN T., Mayor of New Orleans, refuses to surrender the city, 95-6; his letters to Admi

ral Farragut, 95–6; allusion to, 97; 98-9; imprisoned by Gen. Butler, 100.

MONTGOMERY, COL., at Vicksburg, 315. MONTGOMERY, Ala., captured by Gen. Wilson, 719. MOORE, COL. A. B., surprised and captured, 271. MOORE, COL., 8th Tenn., killed at Stone River, 281. MOORE, COL. O. H., worsted by Morgan, 405. MORGAN, GEN. JOHN H., 212; 271; his raid, 282; is defeated at Vaught's Hill, 284; raid into Indiana and Ohio, 405; his capture and escape, 407; is killed in East Tennessee, 408.

MORGAN, GEN. GEO. W., abandons Cumberland
Gap, 214; at siege of Vicksburg, 289; at capture of Fort
Hindman, 293.

MORGAN, MAJOR, charges at Pleasant Hill, 543.
MORGANZIA, La., surprised by the Rebels, 340.
MORRELL, GEN., engaged at Gaines's Mill, 155.
MORRIS ISLAND, Gen. Strong established at, 475;
failure to blow up the "New Ironsides" at, 482.
MORRIS, GEN. L. O., killed at Cold Harbor, 582.
MORRIS, GEN. W. H., at the Wilderness, 571.
MORTON'S ENGINEERS, at Stone River, 275.
MOSEBY, COL. JOHN S., his movements, 727.
MOSQUITO INLET, naval expedition to, 459.
MOUND CITY, gunboat, boiler exploded, 57.
MOWER, GEN., at Corinth, 226; at Vicksburg,
311; at Pleasant Hill, 543; in Missouri, 559.
MULLIGAN, COL., 15th Ga., killed at Antietam, 210.
MULLIGAN, GEN. (Union), killed, 606.
MUMFORD, Wm. B., hanged at N. Orleans, 100-1.
MUNFORDSVILLE, Ky., fight at, 215.
MUNROE, COL., charges at Fayetteville, Ark., 448.
MURFREESBORO', Tenn., capture of, 212.
MURPHY, COL. R. C., 8th Wis., abandons Iuka,

222; surrenders Holly Springs, 287; is cashiered, 287.

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NAGLEE, GEN. H. M., at Seven Pines, 142-4; wounded, 148.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., occupied by Unionists, 53; railroad reopened to, 270; stores accumulated at, 272 battle of, 685; losses and captures, 686. NASSAU ISLAND, focus of blockade runners, 643. NATCHEZ, Miss., surrenders, 104.

NATIONAL DEBT-Currency depreciation, 663–4. NATIONAL FINANCES, Gov. Chase on the, 661. NATIONAL UNION PARTY, Platform of, 1864, 659. NEGLEY, GEN. J. S., at Stone River, 274. NEGRO SOLDIERS, in the Revolutionary war, 511; Congress subjects negroes to conscription, 519; use of, in aid of the Rebellion, 521; 522; the Confederates on arming, 523; President Lincoln on protecting, 525; progress in raising, 527; Bancroft's history on, 511-12 Dr. Franklin on, 513; King George employs, 513; Jack son's use of, at New Orleans, 514; Gen. Hunter, Mr. Wickliffe of Ky., and Secretary Stanton on, 515-16; Gen. Phelps on, 517; Gen. Butler in response, on, 518; Gov. Andrew of Mass. raises three regiments of, 520 they demand full pay, 520; Congress sanctions the claim of the, 521; impressment of by the Confederate Government, 522; progress in raising, 526-7. NEILL, GEN., at Chancellorsville, 363.

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NELSON, GEN., wounded at Richmond, 214. NEWBERN, N. C., taken by Burnside, 76. NEW HAMPSHIRE, State Election of, '63, 486. NEW HOPE CHURCH, occupied by Sherman, 638. NEW MADRID, Mo., invested, 54; and taken, 54-5. NEW MEXICO, loyalty of regulars in, 19; sufferings of, 20; action of her Legislature with regard to Slavery, 20-21; home guard organized, 21; Canby organizes militia, 21; Rebels defeated near Fort Craig, 21; Canby occupies frontier posts, 22; Rebels advance to Fort Craig, 22; Santa Fé, 24; fight at Apaché Pass, 24; Rebels abandon the Territory, 25.

NEW ORLEANS, Gen. Butler's expedition against, 81 to 106; importance of, to the Confederacy, 85; map of approaches to, 86; defenses of, 84, 86-87; attack on and passage of forts below, 88-94; destruction of property at, 94; occupation of, by Admiral Farragut, 95-6; occupation of, by Gen. Butler, 97-101, 106; elects Union members of Congress, 105.

New Orleans Picayune, citation from, relative to defenses of New Orleans, 84.

NEWPORT NEWs, reached by Porter's corps, 171. NEWTON, GEN., at Gaines's Mill, 156; is relieved,

564.

NEW YORK CITY, fired by emissaries, 611.
NEW YORK RIOTS of 1863, account of, 503-7.
NEW YORK STATE ELECTION of 1862, 484.
NIAGARA, U. S. frigate, takes the Georgia, 646.
NIAGARA, Peace overtures at, 665.
NORFOLK, Va., capture of, 127-8.

NORTH ANNA RIVER, Grant advances to the, 577.
NORTH CAROLINA, Burnside's operations in, 73–81.

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O'BRIEN, COL., killed in New York by rioters, 506. O'CONNOR, COL., 2d Wisc., killed at second Bull Run, 189.

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OHIO, Gen. Buell commands the Army of the, 212. OHIO, Morgan's raid into, 405; Ohio Democracy vs. President Lincoln, 493.

OLIVER, COL., at the siege of Corinth, 225. OLUSTEE, Fla., Gen. T. Seymour defeated at, 531. OPDYCKE, GEN., his heroism at Franklin, 682. OPEQUAN, Va., Sheridan's victory at, 606. ORD, GEN. EDWARD O. C., at Iuka, 223; at Vicksburg, 315; at Petersburg, 734. "ORDER OF AMERICAN KNIGHTS," their organization and designs, 556.

ORETO, or Florida, a Rebel corsair, 643.
O'RORKE, COL., killed at Gettysburg, 388.
OSTERHAUS, GEN. P. J., at the capture of Fort
Hindman, 293; at Vicksburg, 312; with Sherman on
his great march from Atlanta to Savannah, 689 to 695.
OX HILL, Va., Jackson strikes Reno at, 188.

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PAINE, COL. HALBERT E., 4th Wisc., refuses to expel colored refugees from his camp, 245. PALMER, GEN. JOHN M., at Stone River, 277; at Chickamauga, 415-17. PALMERSTON, LORD, his opinion of Gen. Butler's order No. 28, 100.

PARKE, GEN. JOHN G., 73; in attack on Newbern, 78; invests Fort Macon, 79; at Vicksburg, 314; carries Rebel works at Petersburg, 734.

PARKER, JOEL, chosen Gov. of New Jersey, 254. PARSONS, GEN. M., killed at Pleasant Hill, 544. PATTON, COL: G. S., at Wytheville and Lewisburg, Va., 403; 404.

PAUL, BRIG-GEN., wounded at Gettysburg, 388. PAYNE, COL., 2d La., wounded at Port Hudson,

333.

PEA RIDGE, battle of, 27 to 32; losses at, 31.

ANALYTICAL INDEX.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS in Hampton roads, 675. PEACE OVERTURES at Niagara and Richmond, 664-6.

PECK, GEN. JOHN J., repels Longstreet at Suffolk, Va., 367.

PEGRAM, GEN., routed by Gillmore near Somerset, Ky., 427; wounded at the Wilderness, 568; killed at Dabney's Mill, Va., 726.

PELOUZE, MAJOR, severely wounded, 177. PEMBERTON, GEN. JOHN C., defeated at Champion Hills, 307; his defense and surrender of Vicksburg, 310-16.

PENDER, BRIG.-GEN., at second Bull Run, 189; wounded mortally at Gettysburg, 380; 387; 389. PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES, at Gaines's Mill, 157;

777

POPE, GEN. JOHN, in Missouri, 26; flanks Island No. 10, 54-5; captures New Madrid and Island No. 10, 55; 56; joins Halleck in Mississippi, 71; pursues Beauregard, 72; important letter intercepted by, 171; commands the Army of Virginia, 172; address to the Army, 173; makes a diversion in favor of McClellan, 173; at Culpepper, 177; calls for rëenforcements, 178; his headquarters surprised, 178; moves toward Centerville, 182; his plans to overwhelm Jackson, 183; tries to turn Jackson's flank, 183; his report of the battle of second Bull Run, 185-6; appeals for rations, &c., 186; defeated at Gainesville by Lee and Jackson, 187; his retreat, 188; his disasters, 189-90; on the causes of his defeat, 192; is succeeded by Gen. McClellan, 189.

PORT CONWAY, Va., Kilpatrick crosses at, 394.
PORT GIBSON, Miss., Grant crosses near, 303;
battle of, 305.

in White Oak Swamp, 161-2; at second Bull Run, 189.
PENNSYLVANIA, invaded by Lee, 393.
PENSACOLA, retaken by Union forces, 459.
PERCZEL, COL., 10th Iowa, repulses Rebels at PORT REPUBLIC, Va., fights near, 137; 139.

PORT HUDSON, La., passed by Farragut, 329;
Banks invests, 331; assaults, 333-5; surrendered, 336.

Iuka, 224.

PERRYVILLE, Ky., battle and map of, 219.
PETERSBURG, Va., Lee's retreat from, 739.
PETTIGREW, BRIG.-GEN., wounded at Gettysburg,
389; killed at Falling Waters, 393.

PHELPS, GEN. J. W., occupies Ship Island, 81;
issues proclamation in regard to Slavery, 82; on negro
soldiership, 517.

PHILADELPHIA, East Tenn., fight at, 431.
PHILLIPS, COL., killed at Donaldsonville, La., 338.
PHILLIPS, COL. W. A., routs raiders under Stand-
watie and Quantrell, at Fort Gibson, 454.
PHILLIPS, GEN., charges at the Little Osage, 561.
PICKETT, GEN., at Gettysburg, 380 to 387; as-
saults at Bachelor's creek, N. C., 533.

PIERCE, FRANKLIN, Ex-Prest., on the War, 496-9.
PIKE, GEN. ALBERT, commands Indians at Pea
Ridge, 27-33.

PILLOW, GEN. GIDEON J., at Fort Donelson, 47-51.
PINEVILLE, Mo., fight by Col. Catherwood at, 450.
PITTSBURG LANDING, Tenn., battle of, 58 to 71;
positions of Union forces, 59; no intrenchments, 59-60;
the Rebel attack; Prentiss's division routed, 61-2;
McClernand worsted, 63; Rebels repulsed by Webster's
artillery, 65-6; Buell arrives, 67; second day's battle,
67, 68-9; extracts from Buell's report, 66; dispatches
from Beauregard, 66; 70; extracts from his report, 60;
67; 69; 70; losses sustained, 70; remarks of "An Im-
pressed New Yorker," 60, 69, 71.

PLEASANT GROVE, La., Gen. Emory stops the
Rebels at, 541.

PLEASANT HILL, La., Banks's battle at, 543-4.
PLEASANTON, GEN. A., at South Mountain, 196;
fights and wins, 203; fights with Stuart, 369; at Get-
tysburg, 389; at Chancellorsville, 358; successful on
the Rapidan, 394; his operations in Missouri, 559.
PLYMOUTH, N. C., Wessells besieged by Hoke in,

533-4.

POCOTALIGO, S. C., fight at, 463.

POE, CAPT., Engineers, defends Knoxville against
Longstreet, 432.

POLIGNAC, PRINCE, beaten by A. J. Smith, 551.
POLITICAL MUTATIONS AND RESULTS IN 1864, 654.
POLITICAL OR CIVIL HISTORY OF 1863, 484.
POLK, LEONIDAS, Bishop and Maj.-Gen., aban-
dons Columbus. Ky., 54; allusion to, 60; at Stone
River, 276; at Chickamauga, 415; at Kenesaw Moun-
tain, 629; killed, 629.

POLLARD, EDWARD A., on battle of Pea Ridge, 30; 31; on Indians at, 34; on battle of Prairie Grove, 41; on capture of Fort Donelson, 51; on mob at Nashville, 53; on destruction of property at New Orleans by Rebels, 94; on evacuation of Manassas, 112; on Jackson's force in the Valley, 114; on Rebel strength at Yorktown, 120; on burning of Columbia, S. C., 701; on burning of Charleston, 702; on the evacuation of Richmond, 735.

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PORTER, COL. P. A., killed at Cold Harbor, 582. PORTER, COL. (Rebel), killed at Hartsville, 447. PORTER, GEN. FITZ JOHN, defeats Rebels at Hanover C. H., 141-2; commands at Gaines's Mill, 155-7; at Malvern Hill, 165; at Gainesville, 182–3–5-6; at Antietam, 208.

PORTER, ADMIRAL D. D., in attack on defenses
of New Orleans, 83; 89; 97; at Vicksburg, 101; on the
Mississippi, 102; 104; passes the batteries of Vicks-
burg, 301; attacks Grand Gulf, 302; sends gunboats up
the Yazoo, 310; occupies Pensacola, 459; captures
Fort de Russy, 537; his fleet working down Red river,
547-8; his estimate of losses-both sides-on the Red
river, 548; resumes the guard of the Mississippi, 551;
his cotton transactions in Alexandria censured, 551–2;
at Wilmington, N. C., 709.

POSEY, GEN. (Rebel), killed at Centerville, 396.
POST, COL., wounded at Nashville, 686.
POST OF ARKANSAS, taken by McClernand, 293.
POST'S BRIGADE, at Nashville, Tenn., 686.
POTOMAC, scene of operations and importance of
the, 171; the enemy's designs on the, 180; rëcrossed
by Jackson, 199; Lee's retreat to the, 391.
POTTER, HON. ELISHA R., of R. I., on the War
as affecting Slavery, 256.

PRAIRIE D'ANNE, Steele's battle at, 552.
PRAIRIE GROVE, Ark., battle at, 38-41.
PREBLE, COM'R GEO. H., deceived and disgusted,

643.

PRENTISS, GEN. BENJ. M., 59; surprised at Pitts-
burg Landing, 61; captured, 62; allusions to, 64; 70;
71; defends Helena, 320-21.
PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS OF 1864-its results,

654.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, account of the, 671-2.
PRESTON, COL., defeats Union levies under Gen.
Manson, at Richmond, Ky., 214; at Chickamauga, 422.
PRICE, GEN. STERLING, 26; abandons Missouri,
27; at Pea Ridge, 28; wounded, 31; allusion to, 35; 67;
attacked by Rosecrans, 223-225; unites with Van Dorn,
225; his charge at Corinth, 227-9; at Prairie d'Anne,
522; his last Missouri raid, 557; threatens Jefferson
City, 559; chased out of Missouri, 561.
PRINCE, GEN., taken prisoner, 179.
PRISONERS, exchanged, 272; retaliation, 525.
PRITCHARD, LT.-COL., captures Jeff. Davis, 756.
PROCLAMATION, of Lee to Maryland, 193-4; of
Gen. Fremont, modified by order of the President, 239;
of Gen. Sherman to the people of South Carolina, 240;
of Gen. Burnside and Com. Goldsborough to those of
Roanoke Island, 244; of President Lincoln emancipa-
ting slaves, 253-5; of Gen. Dix, to the people of Vir-
ginia east of Chesapeake bay, 241.
PROCTOR'S CREEK, Ga., fight near, 634.
PRYOR, BRIG.-GEN. ROGER A., on the battle of
PULASKI, siege and capture of fort, 457.
Glendale, 563.
PUMPKINVINE CREEK, Ga., fight at, 628.

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RACCOON FORD, Va., Rebels crossing at, 175. RAIDS, of J. E. B. Stuart, around McClellan's army, 150; into Pennsylvania, 211; of Carter and Wheeler, 283; of Streight and Dodge in Georgia, 285; of Stoneman, in Virginia, 365; of Forrest and John Morgan, 270; of Grierson, 301-2; of Green, 338; of Stuart across the Rappahannock, 352; of Morgan into Indiana and Ohio, 405; of Wheeler into East Tennessee, 433; of Shelby into Missouri, 453; of Rebel iron-clads from Charleston, 465; on the Sam Gaty, 447; of Marmaduke in Missouri, 446-8; of Coffee at Pineville, 450; of Quantrell to Lawrence, 450; of Cabell in the Indian Territory and Missouri, 453; Price's last into Missouri, 557; of Kilpatrick and Dahlgren near Richmond, 565; of Wilson and Kautz to Burksville, 587; cavalry raid to Grenada, Miss., 615; Morgan's last into Kentucky, 623; of Stoneman to Macon, 633; Davidson's and Grierson's, 695-6; Dana's raid in North Alabama, 695; of Wilson through Central Alabama, 717; of Sheridan to Charlottesville and the James, 727;

RAINS, GEN. JAMES E., killed at Stone River, 282. RAM ALBEMARLE, destruction of the, 535. RAMSEUR, COL., 49th N. C., wounded at Malvern Hill, 166.

RAMSEUR, GEN., killed at Cedar Creek, 615.

RANDOLPH, EDMUND, on the Slave-Trade; 233. RANSOM'S BRIGADE, at the siege of Vicksburg, 311. RANSOM, GEN., wounded at Sabine Cross-roads,

539.

RANSOM, COL., 35th N. C., wounded at Malvern Hill, 166.

RAPIDAN, Rebels crossing the, 171; guarded by Gen. Buford, 175; Union troops cross the, 394; operations on the, 398 to 402; Grant crosses the, 567. RAPPAHANNOCK, THE, Rebel batteries across, 179; crossed by Jackson, 180; Lee's operations on the, 344; Russell's assault at the station, 397; Gens. Meade and Buford cross the, 394; railroad destroyed by the Rebels rëbuilt, 398.

RAYMOND, Miss., McPherson's battle at, 305. REAGAN, JOHN H., captured at Irwinsville, 756. REAMS'S STATION, Hancock's fight at, 593. RED RIVER, rescue of gunboats on the, 549; 550; capture and destruction of transports on the, 550; successful Rebel attack below Alexandria on the, 550. REID, S. C., on the battle of Chickamauga, 424. RENCHER, GOV. ABRAHAM, of New Mexico, 21. RENO, GEN. JESSE L., with Burnside, 73; in attack on Newbern, 78; expedition of, to Elizabeth City, 79-80; rëenforces Gen. Pope, 178; cöoperates with Gen. Sigel, 179; is present at Gainesville, 183; covers the retreat at second Bull Run, 187; killed at South Mountain, 198.

RESACA, Ga., abandoned by Johnston, 626. REVERE, COL., Mass., killed at Gettysburg, 388. REYNOLDS, GEN. JOHN F., at Gaines's Mill, 156; taken prisoner, 157; at Gainesville, 183; at second Bull Run, 189; at Fredericksburg, 347; killed at Gettysburg, 377.

RHODE ISLAND, State Election of, 1863, 486. RHODES, GEN., at South Mountain, 196; is wounded at Antietam, 210; at Gettysburg, 380 to 887; at the Wilderness, 568-71.

RICE, BRIG.-GEN. J. C., attacked by Kirby Smith at Jenkins's ferry, 553-4; killed at the Wilderness, 571. RICHARDS, COL., 20th Ill., killed at Raymond,

Miss., 305. RICHARDSON, GEN. ISRAEL B., at Malvern Hill, 165; at South Mountain, 198; at Antietam, 207; killed,

208.

RICHMOND, Ky., Kirby Smith routs Manson and then Nelson at, 215.

RICHMOND, Va., siege of, raised, 168; operations near, 173; demonstration made on, 394; Grant advances on, 562; raid on, 565-6; Butler menaces, 575; Peace overtures at, 665; fall of, 724; naval operations against, 726; evacuated and burned, 738; occupied by Union forces, 738.

Richmond Whig, The, citation from, 30.
RICKETTS, GEN., advances to Culpepper, 175; is
driven back by Longstreet near Hopewell Gap, 188 at
South Mountain, 197; at Antietam, 205.

RIKER, COL. J. L., killed at Fair Oaks, 148.
RING, MAJ., charges at Stone River, 274.
RIOTS OF 1863 IN NEW YORK, 503–7.
RIPLEY, BRIG.-GEN., at South Mountain, 196;
at Antietam, 206; is wounded, 210.

RIPPEY, COL., 61st Pa., killed at Fair Oaks, 148.
ROANOKE ISLAND, Burnside's attack on, 74-6.
ROBERTS, COL. B. S. [afterward Gen.], refuses

to become a traitor, 19. ROBERTS, COL., 42d Ill., captures raiders, 271; killed at Stone River, 274.

ROBERTSON, GEN., at Gaines's Mill, 156. RODGERS, COM. JOHN, attacks Drewry's Bluff, 140-1; deals with a British blockade-runner, 472-3. RODMAN, GEN. I. P., killed at Antietam, 209. ROGERS, COM'R GEO. W., killed at the assault on Fort Wagner, 478.

ROGERSVILLE, Ky., Manson fights Kirby Smith near, 214.

ROSECRANS, GEN. WM. S., succeeds Buell in command of the Army of the Ohio, 222; he attacks Price's army at Iuka, and forces him to retreat, 223-5; defeats Van Dorn at Corinth, 225-9; his winter campaign, 270; moves against Bragg to Stone River, 273; after four days' hard fighting, Bragg retreats, 280; the numbers engaged and losses, 280-2; commences his Chattanooga campaign, 404; advances to Shelbyville, 409; captures from Bragg, 410; concentrates his forces, 413; opening of the battle of the Chickamauga, 415; the fight of Sept. 19th, 417; his dispositions for the 20th, 419; 425; his order making over command to Gen. Thomas, 427; 432; beyond the Mississippi in '64, 536; appointed to the command of the department of Missouri, 550; arrests conspirators, 556; raises ten regiments and puts down an outbreak, 557; his official report, 558; his estimate of Price's force in Missouri, 562.

ROSS, BRIG.-GEN. L. F., fails to reach the Yazoo, via the Yazoo Pass and Tallahatchie, 297. ROUSSEAU, GEN. LOVELL H., at Perryville, 218; at Stone River, 274; in the Atlanta campaign, 631. ROWAN, COM., succeeds Goldsborough in command of Burnside's fleet, and destroys Rebel gunboats, 76.

ROWAN, CAPT. (Navy), at Fort Wagner, 480. ROYALISTS OF '75 appealing to slaves for help,

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ANALYTICAL INDEX.

SCALES, BRIG.-GEN., wounded at Gettysburg, 389. SCAMMON, COL., Ohio, defeated near Bull Run, 181. SCAMMON, GEN., captured in West Virginia, 599. SCHENCK, MAJ.-GEN. ROBERT C., joins Milroy at McDowell, Va., 133; at Cross-Keys, 189; at Gainesville, 183; wounded at second Bull Run, 189. SCHOFIELD, GEN. JOHN M., organizes Missouri militia, 35; 36; 37; succeeds Gen. Curtis, 447; in the Atlanta campaign, 626; fights Hood at Franklin, Tenn., 681-3; at Nashville, 685; captures Wilmington, 715. SCHURZ, GEN. CARL, at Gainesville, 183; at Chancellorsville, 357; at Wauhatchie, 436.

SCOTT, GEN. WINFIELD, consulted by Pope, 172; Mr. Potter on his strategy, 256.

SCOTT, COL. J. S., routs Union cavalry, 213. SECESSIONVILLE, S. C., Gen. Wright repulsed in an attack on, 461.

SEDGWICK, GEN. JOHN, at Malvern Hill, 165; at Antietam, 207; thrice badly wounded, 307; carries Marye's Heights, and assails Lee's rear at Chancellorsville, 363; at Gettysburg, 380-7; crosses the Rapidan, 566; killed in the Wilderness, 567-71.

SELMA, Ala., captured by Gen. Wilson, 719. SEMMES, GEN., killed at Gettysburg, 389. SEMMES, CAPT. RAPHAEL, of the Alabama, 643. SEVEN DAYS' BATTLES before Richmond, 153-69. SEVEN PINES (or Fair Oaks), battle of, 141 to 149; losses sustained at, 148. SEWARD, HON. WILLIAM H., on the Slave-Trade, 237; murderously assaulted by Payne, 750. SEYMOUR, GEN. TRUMAN, at Gaines's Mill, 156; succeeds Gen. McCall, 163; commands at South Mountain, 198; operates in Florida, 529; defeated at Olustee, 531; captured at the Wilderness, 569. SEYMOUR, HORATIO, elected Gov. of New York, 254; on the crisis, 499-500; addresses New York rioters, 506; urges the President to suspend drafting, 507. SHACKLEFORD, GEN., routed at Jonesboro', Tenn., by W. E. Jones, 430.

SHAEFFER, COL., killed at Stone River, 274. SHARPSBURG, near Antietam, fighting around, 208. SHAW, COL. ROBERT G., 54th Mass., killed at Fort Wagner, 477.

SHELBY, GEN., raids into Missouri, 453; is worsted by Carr near St. Charles, 554; captures most of the 54th Illinois, 555; pursues Ewing, 558.

SHELBYVILLE (or Tullahoma), position of Bragg's army, 404; Rosecrans advances to, 410.

SHENANDOAH, Valley of the, scene of operations, 176; Sigel's movements in the, 179; enemy moving up the Valley of the, 180; Sheridan devastates, 611. SHEPHERD, COL., badly cut up at Stone River, 276. SHEPHERDSTOWN, Va., a fight at, 393. SHEPLEY, GEN. G. F., Governor of Richmond, 738. SHERIDAN, GEN. PHILIP H., at Perryville, 218;

pushes the enemy to Nolensville, 271; at Stone River, 274; skirmishes with Forrest and Van Dorn, 284; at Chickamauga, 421; at Mission Ridge, 438-442; at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, 574; raids to Richmond, 574; succeeds Gen. Hunter, 707; defeats Early at the Opequan, 609; devastates the Valley, 611; defeats Early at Cedar Creek, 613-14; routs Early at Waynesboro', 727; attacked by Lee at Five Forks, 731; relieves Warren from command, 733; routs Pickett at Five Forks, 733; heads off Lee's army, 743; at New Orleans, 758.

SHERMAN, GEN. T. W., issues a proclamation to the people of South Carolina, 240; has taken possession of Edisto Island, 460.

SHERMAN, GEN. WM. T., 54; 58; at Pittsburg Landing, 61-69; assails the Yazoo Bluffs, near Vicksburg, 291; at the capture of Fort Hindman, 293; feints on Haines's Bluff, 303; at the assault on Vicksburg, 310; drives Johnston out of Jackson, Miss., 817; rëenforces Grant at Chattanooga, 437; his advance checked, 441; cooperates in driving Bragg from Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga Valley, and Mission Ridge, 443; assigned to the command of the Mississippi, Ohio, &c.,

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574; begins his Atlanta campaign, 625; drives Jo. Johnson from Dalton and Resaca, 626 to 627; from Dallas and Marietta, 628; is repulsed at Kenesaw Mountain, 629; he repulses Hood's first attack near Decatur, 631; makes a flank movement on Atlanta, 635; compels Hood to abandon Atlanta, 637; orders the removal of the inhabitants from, 637-8; concentrates for his great march, 689; his march from Atlanta to Savannah, 689 to 692; captures Fort McAllister, 693; Savannah, 695; remains a month at Savannah, 696; enters South Carolina, 697; his route from Savannah to Goldsboro', 698; crosses the Edisto and Congaree, 699; fall of Columbia, Charleston, and Fort Sumter, 701; his order as to foraging, 703-4; advances to Fayetteville, N. C., 705; fights Hardee at Averysboro', 706; Jo. Johnston at Bentonville, 707; reaches Goldsboro', 708; advances against Johnston at Smithfield, 751; arrangement with Johnston at Smithfield, 752; requires and constrains a surrender, 753:

SHERRILL, COL. ELIAKIM, 112th N. Y., wounded at Harper's Ferry, 200.

SHIELDS, GEN. JAMES, wounded, 114; on battle of Kernstown, 115; joins McDowell at Fredericksburg, 136; ordered back to the Valley, 136; fails to intercept Jackson, 137.

SHIP ISLAND, Occupied by Gen. Phelps, 82. SHREVEPORT, La., held by 25,000 men under Price, 538.

SIBLEY, GEN., his Indian campaign, 455. SIBLEY, GEN. H. F., organizes brigade for conquest of New Mexico, 21; at Fort Bliss, 22; Valverde, 22-3; Santa Fé, 24; abandons New Mexico, 25. SICKLES, GEN. DANIEL E., at Fredericksburg, 347; at Chancellorsville, 361; worsted by Longstreet, 381; at Gettysburg, 380-87.

SIEGES OF, Atlanta, 637; Beaufort, N. C., 73; 81; Charleston, 465-7; 529; Corinth, 226 to 231; Fort Darling, 141; Fort Donelson, 47-50; Fort Fisher, 711; 713; Fort Gaines, 651; Fort Henry, 45; Fort Hindman, 292; Fort McAllister, Ga., 693; Fort Macon, N. C., 79; Fort Morgan, 651; Fort Pillow, 56, 619; Pulaski, 457; Fort Sanders, 432; Fort Sumter, 467-9; Fort Wagner, 47781; Island Number Ten, 55; Knoxville, 431-2; Mobile, 649-50; Newbern, 77; Plymouth, N. C., 533; Port Hudson, 318; 331-37; Savannah, 695; Vicksburg, 236– 318; Yorktown, 120–2.

SIGEL, GEN. FRANZ, retreats from Bentonville, Ark., 27-8; at Pea Ridge, 28-31; succeeds Gen. Fremont, 172; on the Rappahannock, 179; in the fight at Gainesville, 183; is defeated at Newmarket by Breckinridge, 599; is superseded by Hunter, 600.

SILLIMAN, COL., killed at Bloody Bridge, 533. SILL, GEN. J. W., killed at Stone River, 274. SIMMONS, COL., 5th Pa., mortally wounded, 162. SIMMSPORT, La., Banks's army marches to, 551. SIMPSON, COL., N. J., killed at Gaines's Mill, 157. SINCLAIR, COL. WM. T., wounded at Fredericksburg, 347.

SKIDDAWAY, S. C., abandoned by the Rebels, 460. SLAUGHTER, GEN. J. E., routs Col. Barrett at Brazos, on the Rio Grande, 757.

SLAVERY IN WAR, 232; Patrick Henry, J. Q. Adams, Edmund Randolph, and others on, 233-6; Joshua R. Giddings and Gov. Seward on, 237; Mr. Lincoln on, 237; the West Point conception of, 237; Gens. McDowell and McClellan on, 237-8; Gen. Butler declares slaves contraband of war, 238; Gen. Cameron, Gen. Fremont, and President Lincoln on, 238-40; Gen. T. W. Sherman's assurance, 240; Gen. Wool's contraband order, 240; Gens. Dix and Halleck on, 241; Cameron and Lincoln on, 243; Seward on, 243-4; Gen. Burnside's Roanoke Island proclamation, 244; Gens. McCook, Buell, and Doubleday on slave-hunting, 244-6; Gen. Thomas Williams expels all fugitives, 246; Col. Paine of Wisconsin thereon, 246; Lt.-Col. D. R. Anthony thereon, 246; Gen. Hunter's order on, annulled by the President, 246-7; Gen. McClellan on, 248–9; Mr. Greeley's letter to the President, and the response, 249; Mr. Lincoln to the Emancipationists, 251; his Proclamation of Freedom, 253-5; Emancipation in Congress, 256; army slave-catching prohibited, 257-8; Slavery excluded from the Territories, 261; Mr. Trumbull on, 263; Slave-Trade suppression, 267; Mr. Sum

ner on, 269; the law of evidence, 269; Mr. Lincoln's last | STEELE, GEN. F., at Yazoo Bluffs, 289; at Fort message-Slavery abolished, 673.

SLAVES, Rebel attempt to arm, 725.
SLIDELL, JOHN, allusion to, 81.

SLOCUM, GEN. HENRY W., at Antietam, 207; at Chancellorsville, 356; at Gettysburg, 380-7; with Sherman in his great' march from Atlanta to Savannah, 689-695; threatens an advance on Augusta, 697; crosses the Edisto, 689; fights Hardee at Averysboro', 706; attacked by Jo. Johnston at Bentonville, 707. SMITH, GEN. GUSTAVUS W., 81; at Fair Oaks, 143-5; disabled by paralysis, 145.

SMITH, GEN. PRESTON, killed at Chickamauga, 417. SMITH, GEN. E. KIRBY, invades Kentucky, 213; at Lawrenceburgh, 221; at Perryville, 221; attacks Steele at Jenkins's ferry, 553; his last General Order, 757; surrenders, 758.

SMITH, COL., 73d Ohio, at Wauhatchie, 436. SMITH, GEN. C. F., 45; at Fort Donelson, 49;

at Clarksville, 53; death of, 58; allusion to, 60. SMITH, GEN. T. R., at Fort Hindman, 293. SMITH, GEN. Wм. Sovy, makes a failure, 617. SMITH, GEN. T. KILBY, at Vicksburg, 311. SMITH, GEN. GILES A., at Vicksburg, 311; in the Atlanta campaign, 632; crosses the Edisto, 619. SMITH, GEN. W. F., at Yorktown, 121; in Peninsula campaign, 122; at Antietam, 207; at Fredericksburg, 346; at Cold Harbor, 580-2; at Petersburg, 585. SMITH, GEN. MORGAN L., 69; wounded at Yazoo Bluffs, 289.

SMITH, W. PRESCOTT, expedites movement of troops, 433.

SMITH, COL., 27th Ga., killed at Antietam, 210. SMITH, GEN. A. J., at Yazoo Bluffs, 290; at Fort

Hindman, 293; at Vicksburg, 315; takes Fort de Russy, 537; fights at Mansura, 551; defeats Polignac at Yellow Bayou, 551; routs Marmaduke near Columbia, Ark., 551; ordered to St. Louis, 557; aids to drive Price out of Missouri, 559 to 562; at Nashville under Thomas, 562; helps defeat Hood, 684; rejoins Canby, and helps reduce Mobile, 721.

SNICKER'S GAP, occupied by Lee's army, 212.
SOLDIERS' VOTE, 224; for President, 672.
SOMERSET, Ky., Gillmore routs Pegram, 427.
SOULÉ, HON. PIERRE, 98; banished, 100.
SOUTH MOUNTAIN, Md., battle of, 195-7.
SPALDING, COL., 12th Tenn. Cavalry, at Nash-
ville, 686.

SPANISH FORT, Mobile, besieged and taken, 722.
SPINOLA, BRIG.-GEN. F. B., wounded at Manassas
Gap, 393; relieved from command, 564.
SPOONER, COL., 83d Ind., at Vicksburg, 310.
SPOTTSYLVANIA C. H., Va., fighting at, 572–5.
SPRINGFIELD, Ark., attacked by Marmaduke, 446.
STAFFORD, BRIG.-GEN., killed at the Wilderness,

568.

STAHL, GEN. JULIUS, in fight at Cross-Keys, 138. STANLEY, MAJ.-GEN. D. A., at Iuka, 223-4; attacks Morgan, 271; charges into Franklin, 272; wounded at Franklin, Tenn., 683.

STANNARD, BRIG.-GEN., of Vermont, wounded at Gettysburg, 388.

STANTON, EDWIN M., appointed Secretary of War, 81; 82; 108; 136; to McClellan, after battle of Fair Oaks, 149-150; to McClellan, about Jackson's movements, 151-2.

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Hindman, 293; at Vicksburg, 311; captures Little
Rock, 451-2; in Arkansas in 1864, 536; advances to
Camden, 552; attacked at Jenkins's ferry, 553-4;
storms Blakely, 723.

STEIN, COL., Ohio, killed at Stone River, 281.
STEIN, GEN., 27; killed at Prairie Grove, 40.
STEINWEHR'S DIVISION, at Wauhatchie, 436.
STEVENS, GEN. ISAAC I., killed at Chantilly,
Va., 188-9.
STEVENSON, GEN., at Port Gibson, 305.
STEVENSON, GEN. T. G., killed at the Wilder-
STEWART, GEN., captured by Hancock, 572.
STEWART, LT.-COL., at Van Buren, Ark., 447.
ST. LOUIS, Rosecrans at, 556-8; Price threat-
ens, 559.

ness, 571.

STONEMAN, GEN. GEO. D., on the Peninsula, STONE, COL., at Columbia, S. C., 700.

122-7; 159; his orders, 353; his raid, 365; his disastrous raid to Macon, 633-4; takes Kingsport, Tenn., and Abingdon, Va., 688; carries Salisbury, N. C., 689; destroys railroad, 751.

STONE RIVER, or Murfreesboro', battle of, 273-9. STONE'S BATTERY, at Perryville, 219. STRAHL, GEN., killed at Franklin, Tenn., 683. STRANGE, COL. J. B., on battle of Glendale, 163. STREIGHT, COL. A. D., 51st Ind., raids into Georgia, 285; captured in the fight at Nashville, 685. STRONG, GEN., established on Morris Island, 475; assaults Fort Wagner and is killed, 477. STUART, GEN. DAVID, at Pittsburg Landing, 53; at Yazoo Bluffs, 289; at Fort Hindman, 293.

STUART, GEN. J. E. B., raids around McClellan's

army, 150; his report, 189; at South Mountain, 196; fights Pleasanton, 369; at Gettysburg, 389; at Centerville, 395; at Chickamauga, 422; mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Va., 574.

STURGIS, LT.-COL., at Port Gibson, Miss., 305. STURGIS, MAJ.-GEN. S. D., rëenforces Pope, 179; at Alexandria, 179; is routed at Guntown, 621–2. SULLIVAN, GEN. J. C., at Iuka, 224; routs Forrest, 282.

SUMNER, HON. CHAS., on holding slaves in national vessels, and on excluding witnesses because of color, 269.

SUMNER, GEN. EDWIN V., 108; at Williamsburg, Va., 122-5; at Fair Oaks, 144-7; on the battle of Glendale, 163; at Malvern Hill, 165; rëenforces Pope, 187-190; at Antietam, 207; at Fredericksburg, 344. SUMTER, bombardment of Fort, 467-9; Dahlgren's attack on, 481; restored to the Union, 747. SWAMP ANGEL, opens on Charleston, 479. SWINTON, WILLIAM, on Dupont's attack on Fort Sumter, 467-9.

SYKES, GEN., at Gaines's Mill, 155; at South Mountain, 198; at Chancellorsville, 356; at Gettysburg, 381-7; is relieved from command, 564.

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TALIAFERRO, GEN., at Cedar Mountain, 177; wounded, 182.

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TANEY, ROGER B. (Chief-Justice), death of, 671. TATTNALL, COM., destroys the Merrimac, 128. TAYLOR, GEN. DICK, at Cross-Keys, 138; Port Republic, 139; captures Brashear City, La., 337; defeats Washburne, near Opelousas, 340-1; in Alabama, 721; surrenders to Gen. Canby, 754. TAYLOR, GEN. GEO. W., at Gaines's Mill, 156; is defeated by Jackson at Bull Run, 181. TAYLOR, COL., Pa. Bucktails, killed at GettysTECUMSEH, THE, destroyed by a torpedo, 651. burg, 888. TENNESSEE, the war in, 212; Bragg's army in, 221; Gen. Grant in command of West, 222; Middle and East, 404; Buckner abandons East, 429; Longstreet's operations against Burnside in East, 431-2; Hood invades, 677; is driven out by Thomas, 677–87.

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