Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
Salisbury Prison
Sanitary Commission
Savannah, Ga.
Sawyer, R. M
Saxton, Rufus
Scandlin, William
Schaff, Philip
Schenck, N. H.
Schimmelfenning, Alexander
Schofield, John
Scott, Winfield
secession: Lieber’s view of morality of see also South, secession of
Seddon, James A.
Sedgwick, John at Chancellorsville
separation of church and state
Seven Days’ Batties
Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Va.
Seven Years’ War
Seward, William H.
Booth’s plans and
in cartoon
in peace talks with Davis
Seymour, Harry
Seymour, Horatio
Seymour, Truman
Shaw, Robert Gould
Shedd, William
Shenandoah Valley
Hunter in
Sheridan in
Sheridan, Philip
civilians and
Grant praised by
Indian campaigns and
Meigs’s death and
Shenandoah campaign of
at Yellow Tavern
Sherman, Thomas
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Atlanta campaign of
black soldiers and
civilians and ,
Columbia and
in Georgia
God forsaken by
Grant and
Hood’s exchange with, on moral conduct of war
Indian campaigns and
at Kennesaw
Lincoln and
Lincoln’s assassination and
Lincoln’s River Queen meeting with Grant and
McPherson’s death and
march to the sea
mills destroyed by
in North Carolina
at Shiloh
slaves and
in South Carolina
surrender negotiations of
in victory parades
Sherrill, Rowland
Shields, James
Shiloh, battle of
Sickles, Daniel
Sigel, Franz
Silbey, Joel
Simms, William Gilmore
Skinner, Thomas H.
slavery
abolition of, see abolition, abolitionists
black prisoners and
Confederate textbooks and
Constitution and
Democratic attitude toward
expansion of, into new territories
and fast day for peace
God and
in justifications for Civil War
Lincoln’s attitudes toward
moral history of
and Northern attitudes toward secession
racism and
religious press and
Southern clergy and
in Southern social order
states ’rights and
Tucker’s defense of
slaves
Contrabands
education of
emancipation of, see emancipation
free and former; see also freedmen
Fugitive Slave Law and
insurrections of
as preferring servile status to freedom
racism and
Sherman and
as soldiers
Slocum, Henry
Smith, E. Kirby
Smith, Gerrit
Smith, G. W
Smith, Moses
Smith, William F. “Baldy”
Smyth, Thomas
Sneden, Robert Knox
snipers
Society of the Cincinnati
South:
hatred for Yankees in
intellectuals in
justifications for war in
reconstruction of
social order in
states’ rights issue in, see states’ rights
women in, Northern view of
see also Confederacy
South, secession of
abolitionists’ views of
clergy and
Lieber’s view of
morality of
Northern attitudes toward
and Northern justifications for war
South Carolina as leader of
war Democrats and
West Point responses to
see also Confederacy
South Carolina
Charleston, see Charleston, S.C.
Columbia
Federal forts and
secession of
Sherman in
social order in
Spear, Samuel
Spectator (London)
Spencer, Cornelia
Spiritualism
Spotsylvania, Battle of the Wilderness at
Spotsylvania Court House, battle of ·
Spring, Gardiner
Stanton, Edwin M.
Lincoln’s assassination and
surrender terms and
victory parades and
states’ rights
slavery and
Stebbins, James T.
Stedman, E. C.
Steedman, James B.
Stephens, Alexander
Stevens. A.
Stevens, Isaac
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stillman, Rachel
Stone, A. L.
Stoodley, N. D.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Stowell, Myron E.
Strong, George Templeton
Stuart, J.E.B. “Jeb”
at Chancellorsville
at Yellow Tavern
Summa theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Sumner, Charles
Sumner, Edwin
Supreme Court, U.S.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Sweetser, Seth
Sweetwater (Factory Town), Ga.
Swinton, William
Sykes, George
Sypher, Josiah
Taney, Roger B.
taxes
Taylor, Edward
Taylor, James Barnett
Taylor, Mary Williams
Taylor, Richard
Taylor, Susie King
telegraph
Sherman’s severing of
Tennessee
Chickamauga
Tennessee River
Terry, Alfred Howe
Terry, Benjamin
Texas
Thanksgiving Day
charitable appeals on
thanksgiving days, see fast and thanksgiving days
theater
Thomas, George
at Chickamauga
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Thompson, Joseph P.
Thornwell, James Henley
Times (London)
Todd, George
total war
against Indians
total warWar as
Democratic opposition to
emancipation and
guerrilla terrorism as justification for
Lieber’s Code and
Lincoln and
see also civilians, in Civil War
Townsend, John
Trans-Mississippi Department
Trimble, Isaac
Tucker, Henry H.
Tucker, John Randolph
Tucker, W M.
Tupper, Henry Allen
Turner, George W
Tyler, John
Tyler, Robert O.
Tyson, Bryan
Uncle Jessie
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
undertakers
Union:
preservation of, as justification for war
reconstruction of
see also North
Unitarians
United States of America:
birth of national patriotism in
as Christi
an nation
civil religion of, see American civil religion
as global hope
ideological and theological foundations of
Lincoln’s view of
motto of
Universal Peace Union
Upton, Emory
Vallandigham, Clement
Vander Velde, Lewis G.
Van Dorn, Earl
Van Dyke, Henry J.
Vattel, Emmerich de
Vermont
Vickers, Thomas
Vicksburg, battle of
revivalism following
Vicksburg, Miss.
Vietnam War
Vinton, Alexander H.
Virginia
Brandy Station
Chancellorsville, see Chancellorsville, Va.
Cold Harbor, see Cold Harbor, Va.
Richmond, see Richmond, Va.
Soldiers’ Cemetery in
Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
wagons
Walker, Francis
Walker, Leroy P.
Wallace, Lew
Walzer, Michael
war(s)
civil
generals in
laws and rules of; see also just-war theory
limited
self-interest as basis for
as spectacle
total, see total war
Ward, Charles
Waring, William
Warren, Gouverneur K.
Warren, Henry
Washburn, Charles
Washington, George
Lincoln compared with
Washington, D.C..
Early’s raid on
Waud, Alfred and William
Weed, Thurlow
Weitzel, Godfrey
Weller, R. H.
Wells, Cornelius L.
West Point (United States Military Academy)
American civil religion and
battlefield tactics and
Brown and
Code of
resignations from
West Virginia
Wharton, Francis
Wheeler, Joseph
White, Richard W
Whitman, Walt
Wiest. T.
Wilderness, Battle of the
Wilkerson, Samuel
Williams, Julia
Williams, William R.
Williamsburg
Willoughby, William
Wilmington, N.C.
Wilson, Christopher Kent
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Joseph Ruggles
Wilson, Joseph T.
Wilson’s Creek
Winder, Charles
Winthrop, John
Wirz, Henry
Wise, Henry A.
Witherspoon, Mary
women
in Columbia
in draft riots
rape of
refugee
religion and
Sherman’s war and
slave insurrections and
Woodbridge, George
Work, Henry C.
World War II
Yellow Tavern, battle of
YMCA
Yorktown, Va.
Zollicoffer, General
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