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Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy
Louisville (Kentucky); Nelson wounded by Davis in; Louisville Journal, The
Lucas, Turner & Co. (bank)
MacArthur, Lt. Col. Arthur
Mack and Brothers
MacMahon, Marie Edmé Patrice de
Macon (Georgia)
“magnetic telegraph” of Grant and Sherman
mail sorted on railroads
malaria
Malvern Hill, Battle of (1862)
Manassas, battles of. See Bull Run
Manifest Destiny
“Marching Through Georgia” (song)
March to the Sea (1864); European reaction to; pillage vs. confiscation during; Union soldiers captured during; Union wounded during
Marietta (Georgia)
Markland, Col. Absolom H.
Marlborough, duke of
Marx, Karl
Maryland
Matamoros, Battle of (1846)
Mattoon (Illinois)
Maximilian, Mexican regime of
McClellan, Maj. Gen. George B.; at Antietam; Army of Potomac led by; Seven Days’ Battles; Crimean War observed by; Grant’s western campaigns and; Halleck not wanted as rival by; initial victories by; Joint Committee’s investigation of; as presidential candidate; Sherman and
McClellan Saddle
McClernand, Maj. Gen. John; public criticism of Grant by
McCloskey (Union soldier)
McClure, A. K.
McDowell, Maj. Gen. Irvin
McKinley, Maj. William B.
McPherson, Maj. Gen. James B.
Meade, Maj. Gen. George Gordon; as Army of the Potomac commander; in Grand Review
Mechanicsville (Virginia), Battle of (1862)
Meiggs, “Honest Harry,”
Memphis (Tennessee): Forrest’s 1864 raid on; Grant’s censorship of press of; Grant’s headquarters in; Sherman as military governor of; Willy’s death in
Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Memphis Evening Bulletin
Meridian (Mississippi), Sherman’s raid on
Mexican War; casualties in; Grant on unjustfulness of
Mexico City, Battle of (1847)
Mexico, Maximilian in
“Mexico” (troublemaker)
Mill Creek (North Carolina)
Milledgeville (Georgia)
Milliken’s Bend (Louisiana), Battle of (1863)
Minnesota, Sioux in
miscegenation
Missionary Ridge (Tennessee)
Mississippi: Army of the; Department of the; Military Division of the (postwar)
Mississippi Central Rail Road
Mississippi River: gun boat and riverboat fleets of; in Union hands
Mississippi Squadron
Missouri; Belmont attack; Department of, Halleck’s command of; Grant’s civilian life in; Sherman’s inspection of troops
Missouri Democrat (St. Louis newspaper)
Mobile (Alabama): Grant proposes campaign against; Sherman’s posting to
Mobile and Ohio railroad
Mobile Bay, Battle of (1864)
Molino del Rey, Battle of (1847)
Monroe Doctrine
Monterey (California)
Morehead City (North Carolina)
Morristown (Tennessee)
Morton, Oliver P.
Mosby’s guerrillas
Mountain Department
“mud turtle” ironclads
Muscle Shoals (Tennessee)
Napoleon III (Emperor of the French)
Nashville (Tennessee); Hood stopped by Thomas at
Nelson, Maj. Gen. William
New Bern (North Carolina)
New Haven Journal
New Orleans (Louisiana); naval capture of
New York City: draft riots in (1863); Irishmen of; Sherman as bank manager in; Sherman’s retirement in
New York Herald, The
New York Times, The
New York Tribune
New York World, The
Niagara Falls (Canada), peace negotiations at
North Carolina: Sherman’s march through; see also Carolinas campaign
Oak Grove (Virginia), Battle of (1862)
Ohio, Army of the; Sherman Testimonial Fund of
Ohio River
“Old Abe” (mascot)
“Old Shandy,”
“On to Richmond!,”
Orchard Knob (Tennessee)
Ord, Maj. Gen. Edward
Ord, Mrs. Edward
Oregon Trail
Our American Cousin (play)
Oxford (Mississippi)
Paducah (Kentucky)
Page, Charles A.
Palmer, Joseph
Panama, cholera epidemic in
Parker, Lt. Col. Ely S.
Peabody, Col. Everett
Peach Tree Creek, Battle of (1864)
Pemberton, Maj. Gen. John C.
Peninsular Campaign (1862)
Perryville (Kentucky)
Petersburg (Virginia); Lee’s evacuation of
Philadelphia Inquirer, The
Pickett, Maj. Gen. George
Pierce, Franklin
pillaging
Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee)
Poe, Edgar Allan
Polk, James K.
Polk, Lt. Gen. Leonidas K.
pontoons; freed slaves drowned by removal of bridge of; in Grand Review
Pope, Maj. Gen. John; as frontier commander
Porter, Brig. Gen. Andrew
Porter, Rear Adm. David Dixon; on Lincoln’s assassination
Porter, Lt. Col. Horace
Port Gibson (Mississippi)
Port Hudson (Louisiana)
Potomac, Army of the; McClellan as commander of; Meade as commander of; in Seven Days’ Battles
Powell, John
Prentiss, Maj. Gen. Benjamin M.
President’s General War Order No. I (1862)
Price, Maj. Gen. Sterling
Prime, Maj. Frederick
prostitutes, Memphis
Quartermaster Department
Quinby, Brig. Gen. Isaac F.
Quincy (Illinois)
Raccoon Mountain (Tennessee)
Radical Republicans: on Appomattox surrender; iron rule of South sought by; Lee’s arrest proposed by; Lincoln and; on Sherman-Johnston negotiations; West Pointers distrusted by
railroads; Lincoln’s funeral train; mail sorted on; Sherman Neckties on; Sherman’s funeral train
Raleigh (North Carolina); Grant’s trip to; soldiers burn N.Y. newspapers in
Raleigh Daily Standard
Randolph (Tennessee)
Rapidan River
Rawlins, Brig. Gen. John A.; as Grant’s Secretary of War
Rawlins, Mrs. John A.
Raymond, Henry J.
Reagan, John
Reconstruction; Lincoln and
Red River campaign (1864)
refugees, white Southerner
regiments, Confederate: 3rd Louisiana; 38th Tennessee
regiments, Union: 3rd Artillery; 7th Cavalry; 19th Illinois; 21st Illinois; 45th Illinois; 55th Illinois; 61st Illinois; 104th Illinois; 113th Illinois; 2nd Illinois Cavalry; 6th Indiana; 22nd Indiana; 38th Indiana; 66th Indiana; 100th Indiana; 4th Infantry; 13th Infantry; 2nd Iowa; 17th Iowa; 15th Maine; 20th Maine; 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry; 4th Minnesota; 10th Missouri; 25th Missouri; 13th New York; 69th New York; 79th New York; 121st New York; 40th Ohio; 53rd Ohio ; 70th Ohio; 72nd Ohio; 69th Pennsylvania; 148th Pennsylvania; 2nd Wisconsin; 8th Wisconsin; 11th Wisconsin; 21st Wisconsin; 24th
Wisconsin; see also black soldiers
Resaca (Georgia)
Richards, Dora
Richmond (Virginia); Confederate government’s departure from; Lincoln’s visit to; Sherman marches anti-Halleck troops through; Union entry into
Richmond and Danville Railroad
Ripley, George
Rosecrans, Maj. Gen. William
Rucker, Mrs. Dani
el
Ruggles, Brig. Gen. Daniel
St. Louis (Missouri); Ellen brings Sherman back on leave from; Fifth Street Railroad in; Frémont’s business associates in; Sherman’s and Grant’s 1857 meeting in; Sherman’s burial in
San Francisco (California); Frémont’s business associates from
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
San Juan Hill, Battle of (1898)
Savannah (Georgia); Sherman’s capture of
Savannah (Tennessee)
Sayler’s Creek (Virginia), Battle of (1865)
Schofield, Maj. Gen. John M.
Schurz, Maj. Gen. Carl
Scott, Thomas W.
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Gen. Winfield; Anaconda Plan of
Sea Islands, reserved for blacks by Sherman
Second Confiscation Act (1862)
Sedalia (Missouri)
Sedgwick, Maj. Gen. John
Selover, Abia A.
Seminole Indians
Seneca Indian assistant adjutant general
Seven Days’ Battles (1862)
Seven Pines (Virginia), Battle of (1862)
Seward, Maj. Augustus
Seward, Fanny
Seward, Frederick
Seward, William H.; attempted assassination of
Sharpsburg. See Antietam
Shenandoah Valley
Sheridan, Maj. Gen. Philip; popularity of; West of the Mississippi command of
Sherman, Charles (Sherman’s brother)
Sherman, Charles (Sherman’s son)
Sherman, Elizabeth (Sherman’s sister)
Sherman, Ellen (Eleanor; Sherman’s wife); Catholicism of; death of; extermination of South demanded by; at Grand Review; Grant’s letter to; Memphis visit of; Sherman’s letters to ; Sherman’s mental problems and; on Sherman’s snub of Halleck; Vicksburg visit of; wedding of; and Willie’s death
Sherman, Ellie (Sherman’s daughter)
Sherman, John (Sherman’s brother) Sherman’s mental problems and; at outbreak of Civil War
Sherman, Lizzie (Sherman’s daughter)
Sherman, Minnie (Sherman’s daughter)
Sherman, Thomas (“Tommy”; Sherman’s son); becomes Jesuit priest
Sherman, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh “Cump”: accused of treason; asthma of; Atlanta campaign; attitude toward blacks by; brigade commander at First Bull Run; Carolinas campaign; Chattanooga campaign; City Point conference; on civil government in South; in Civil War; Congressional joint resolution of thanks; conscription; in Cumberland department; death and funeral of; descriptions of; 1864 division of labor with Grant; energy of; female admirers of; at Grand Review; on Grant and Lee as historical figures; on Grant’s ability; on Grant’s drinking; Grant’s friendship with ; guerrilla policy; in Henry-Donelson campaign; on horror of debt; ignores his seniority to Grant; insecurity of; journalists mistrusted; later military career of; learns of Lee’s surrender; on Lincoln; living off the land; at Louisiana’s military seminary; March to the Sea; as Memphis military governor; mental problems of; Meridian raid; news of Lincoln’s assassination; personal characteristics of desire for subordinate position; pessimism of; popularity of; presidential possibilities rejected by; previous military career of; ranks held by: Captain; Colonel; Brigadier General; Brigadier General in Regular Army; Major General; Major General in Regular Army; rehabilitation; rejects a promotion; restrained speech of; retirement from army; sent home on leave from Missouri; Shiloh battle and; soldiers’ nickname of; B. Stanton’s fight with; surrender terms to Johnston; talking with enlisted men; telegram from Louisville. to Lincoln; total war (“Enlightened War”) waged; total war ended; training troops in Benton Barracks; Vicksburg campaign ; wounded at Shiloh
Sherman, Willy (Sherman’s son); death of
Sherman Neckties
Sherman Testimonial Fund of Ohio
Shiloh (Tennessee); Battle of (1862); Southern casualties in
signalmen
Sioux Indians
slaves: in border states; contraband; drowned in Davis’s removal of pontoon bridge; as engineering troops (pioneers); federal policy on; freed; in Grand Review; Grant’s father’s abolitionism; Grant’s prediction on; Grant’s purchase and freeing of; Harpers Ferry attack to free; kneel to Lincoln; during March to the Sea; Maximilian and; by Meridian raid; mulatto; postwar policy toward; in U.S. Army; at White Haven; see also black regiments; blacks; Emancipation Proclamation
Slocum, Maj. Gen. Henry W.
Smith, Col.
Smith, Capt. C. C.
Smith, Maj. Gen. Charles F.
Smith, Gen. Edward Kirby
Smith, Maj. Gen. William F.
Smith, Brig. Gen. William Sooy
Snake Creek Gap (Georgia)
“Social Reconstruction of the Southern States, A,”
South Bend (Indiana)
South Carolina: Sea Islands of; secession of; Sherman’s march into; Sherman’s posting to
Southside Railroad
Spanish-American War
Special Field Orders
Speed, James
spies; Confederate; journalists considered to be; Union
Spotsylvania Court House (Virginia; 1864)
Sprague, William
Springfield (Illinois), Grant in
Stanton, Benjamin
Stanton, Dr. Darwin
Stanton, Edwin M.; at Grand Review; Grant’s postwar relationship with; Grant’s testimony on; in investigation of drowning incident; after Lincoln’s assassination; objects to Grant’s reduction of Washington defenses; personality and background of; as Radical Republican; resigns as Secretary of War; Sherman denounced by; Sherman’s apology to, for surrender document; Sherman’s communications to Grant on; Sherman’s March to the Sea and; Sherman’s postwar relationship with; Stone’s arrest and imprisonment condoned by
Statue of Liberty, Stone in construction of base for
Steele’s Bayou (Mississippi)
Stein, Gertrude
Steinberger, Baron
Stephens, Alexander H.
Stiles, Mrs. William Henry
Stillwell, Pvt. Leander
Stone, Brig. Gen. Charles P.
Stuart, Maj. Gen. James Ewell Brown “Jeb,”
Sutter, John Augustus
Taylor (Confederate captain)
Taylor, Zachary
Tennessee
Tennessee, Army of the (Confederate)
Tennessee, Army of the (Union)
Tennessee River
Terry, Brig. Gen. Alfred H.
Texas: annexation of; last of the Confederates in
Texas Brigade
Thirteenth Amendment
Thomas, Maj. Gen. George H.; Hood stopped by
Thomas, Brig. Gen. Lorenzo
Tiffany’s (New York)
Tilghman, Brig. Gen. Lloyd
T.I.O. (Twelve in One)
total war (“Enlightened War”), Sherman’s; end of
Townsend, Col. Edward D.
Travis, Allie
Trent affair
Tunnard, Sgt., William H.
Tupper, Col.
Turner, Henry
Twain, Mark
Twombley, Cpl. Voltaire P.
Tyler, Brig. Gen. Daniel
“unconditional surrender,”
United States Army (Union Army): blacks in; at Civil War’s opening; Confederate soldiers become eligible for; conscription for; demobilization of; Easterners vs. Westerners in 1864 losses of; Grand Review of; muskets bought by discharged members of; officers of, joining Confederates; postwar reduction of; Quartermaster Department of; Topographical Engineers; voting by; see also regiments
United States Marines, China action of (1856)
United States Military Academy. See West Point
United States Navy: blockade by; in Henry-Donelson campaign; Mississippi gun boats and riverboats of; officers of, joining Confederates; at Shiloh; in Trent affair; in Vicksburg campaign
Upson, Sgt. Theodore
Van Dorn, Maj. Gen. Earl
van Vliet, Maj. Gen. Stewart
Vicksburg (Mississippi): description of; finally surrounded; gala ball at; Grant’s siege of; food shortage in; impromptu truces at; naval flotillas sail past guns; as Sherman’s base for raid; surrender of
Vicksburg Citizen
Vicksburg Whig
Victoria (Queen of England)
Virginia: Lincoln’s support of old legislature of; as Military District No. secession of
volunteer commissions
Wade, Benjamin
Wadsworth, Brig. Gen. James S.
Wagner, Richard
Wallace, Maj. Gen. Lew
Washburne, Elihu
Washington, George
Washington, D.C.: Grand Review in; Grant offered Halleck’s house in; Grant pulls troops from defenses of; Sherman marches through Richmond to; victory celebrations in
Washington and Lee University
Washington Chronicle
Washington College, Lee as president of
Washington Star, The
Washington Tribune
Wauhatchie (Tennessee)
Waynesboro (Virginia), Battle of (1864)
Webster, Daniel
Weed, Thurlow
Weitzel, Maj. Gen. Jacob
Welles, Gideon
West, Department of the
Western Virginia, Department of
West Point (U.S. Military Academy): graduates of, in Civil War; Grant at; Radical Republicans’ attitude to; Sherman at; at Sherman’s funeral
West Virginia, admission of
Wheeler, Maj. Gen. Joseph; in Spanish-American War
White Haven farm
White Oak Swamp (Virginia), battle of (1862)
Whitman, Walt
Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus
Wilderness (Virginia), Battle of the (1864)
Williams, Maj. Gen. Seth
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Brig. Gen. James Harrison
Wilson’s Creek (Missouri), Battle of (1861)
Winchester (Virginia), Battle of (1864)
Wise, Maj. Gen. Henry A.
Women’s National War Relief Association
women of the South: March to the Sea and; Sherman on hatred by; wives of soldiers permitted through Union lines
Wood, Brig. Gen. Thomas J.
Woods, Maj. Isaiah C.
Woods, Brig. Gen. William B.
Worth, Brig. Gen. William
Wright, Maj. Gen. Horatio G.
Yates, Richard