326 The American Civil WarSavannah campaign 276-8, 279
Sayler's Creek 223
Schimmelfennig, General Alexander 175
Schofield, General John M. 284
and Atlanta campaign 263, 265, 267
in Missouri 251
at Nashville 281, 284
and Tennessee campaign 279-80
at Wilmington 290
Scott, General-in-Chief Winfield 38
Anaconda Plan 36, 38, 106-7, 239
background and character 36
resignation 44, 97
Sedgwick, General John 74, 75, 78, 182, 187,
193, 193
Seven Days battles (25 June-1 July 1862) 51-5,
52-3
Seven Pines, battle of (31 May-1 June 1862) 44,
47, 49
Seward, William Henry 44
'Shad Bake, the' 223
Sharpsburg, battle of see Antietam, battle of
Shaw, Colonel Robert Gould 295
Shenandoah, CSS 236
Shenandoah Valley 35
burning of 217-18
campaigns of 1862 46-51, 48
campaigns of 1864 211-20, 215
Shepherdstown 62, 65
Sheridan, General Philip H.
and Early's Washington raid 274
at Five Forks 223
and Franco-Prussian War 313
and Shenandoah Valley campaign (1864)
215-20
at Spotsylvania 192
at Stone's River 134
at Yellow Tavern 197
Sherman, General William Tecumseh 125 , 273
Atlanta campaign 209, 263-72
Carolinas campaign 285-90
at Chattanooga 256-8
First Manassas campaign 39
Jackson, Mississippi, capture of 142
at Louisville 110
March to the Sea 276-8
peace negotiations 308
reputation 160
Savannah campaign 276-8
at Shiloh 121, 122, 241
at Vicksburg 132, 246
Shields, James 47
Shiloh, battle of (6-7 April 1862) 119-23, 120 ,
241,243
Shiloh Church, Tennessee 119, 120
Shreveport 260
Sickles, General Daniel F. 176, 177, 179
siege guns 138
Sigel, Colonel Franz 108, 109, 212, 213
slavery
abolition of 312
and creation of the Confederacy 27-8
and John Brown 26
Missouri Compromise 11, 14
Northern attitude to 153, 154, 291, 301
political parties' policies on 12, 13, 90
Southern attitude to 86, 88, 291
territories, debate over 14
and Uncle Tom's Cabin 14, 16
Wilmot Proviso 13
slaves
condition of during the war 94-5
'contrabands' 94
runaways 14, 157,293, 294
Slidell, John 45
Slocum, Major-General Henry W. 276
Smith, Major-General A.J. 260-1, 281, 283
Smith, General Edmund Kirby 130, 236, 244,
308
Smithland, Kentucky 240
Snake Creek Gap 265
Snodgrass Hill 255
South Carolina, secession from the Union 27,
30, 239
South Carolina Planters 12
South Side Railroad 211, 221, 223
Southampton, Virginia 12
speculators 90
Spindle Farm 192
Spotsylvania Court House, battle of (8-21 May
1864) 191-7, 191, 194-5, 196 , 227-8
Sprague, William 161
Spring Hill 281
Springfield, Missouri 109
Stanley, Major-General David 279, 280
Stanton, Edwin M. 256, 308
Staunton 47, 212, 213
Stebbins, Orrin 147
Steedman, Major-General James B. 279, 283
Steele, Major-General Frederick 260, 261
Stephens, Alexander H. 28, 93
Steuart, General George H. 224, 226, 227
Stone, Kate 157-9
Stone's River, battle of (31 December 1862-2
January 1863) 132, 134-5, 134-5, 136, 245
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 14, 16
Strasburg 47
Stuart. General J. F. B. ('Jeb') 169
at Brandy Station 168
as cavalry commander 74, 165
death 197
at Gettysburg 170, 172, 180
at Harpers Ferry 232
Sudley Ford (Manassas) 39
Sumner, Edwin V. 67
supplies 185
surgical instruments 151
Swift Creek 200