John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army

Harrison, Benjamin, the War Department under his administration, 423

Hartsuff, George L., ill luck in Florida, 25; organizes the Twenty-third Army Corps, 25; intimacy with S., 25; wounded, 25; death, 25

Hascall, Brig.-Gen. Milo S., battle of Kolb's Farm, 132, 133, 135

Haskin, Capt. Joseph A., commanding Company D, First Artillery, 20

Hat Island, sports at, 428

Hatch, Maj.-Gen., Edward, anticipates Hood's advance, 167; in the Tennessee campaign, 201; despatch to Thomas. Nov. 20, 1864, 201; sends troops to Nashville, 205, 206

Hawaiian Islands, a trip to the, 431-433; question of annexation to the United States, 431; Americans and American interests in, 431-433; decay of the people of, 432

Hayes, Rutherford B., creates the Division of the Gulf, 447, 448

Henderson, Senator J. B., letter to S., April 7, 1864, 117; urges S. to ‘whip somebody anyhow,’ 117; letter from S. to, April 15, 1864, 117-119

Herron, Maj.-Gen. Francis J., at Wilson's Creek, 62; marches to Blunt's assistance, 62; battle of Prairie Grove, 62-64; acts of insubordination, 64; S.'s opinion of, 64; protests against serving under S., 64; rebuked by the President, 64; promoted, major-general, 64; commanding the Army of the Frontier, 64; ordered to report to Gen. Grant before Vicksburg, 64, 98

Hewit, Dr., at battle of Jonesboroa, 157

Hill, Lieut. A. P., attached to Battery D, First Artillery, 20; lieutenant-general, C. S. A., 20; friendship with S., sickness of both, and mutual nursing, 25, 26; entertains S. at his residence at Culpeper Court-house, 26; his father, 26; character, 26; S.'s last interview with, 26; killed, 26

Hillsborough Turnpike, Tenn., military (operations on, 264, 268

Hilo, a trip to, 431

Hindman, Maj.-Gen. Thomas C., crosses the Boston Mountains, 62; battle of Prairie Grove, 62; retreats toward Little Rock, 63

History, the essentials of impartial, 122; the writing of, 300

Holden, William W., appointed provisional governor in North Carolina, 377

Holston River, military movements on the, 114, 115

Holt, Maj.-Gen., Joseph, service on military court with Thomas, 277

Honolulu, a trip to, 432

Honor, among soldiers, 352

‘Honor graduate,’ the distinction of, 460

Hood, Gen. John B., at West Point, 14, 15, 138; dash, courage, and vigor as a fighter, 15, 190, 232, 246-248, 251, 260-262, 273, 317, 324, 341,343; crosses Duck River, 129, 168, 170, 175, 192, 206, 208-210, 212-214, 218, 219, 230, 254; battle of Kolb's Farm, 136; S.'s personal regard for, relations with, and knowledge of his character, 137, 138, 222, 229, 231, 232, 238, 245, 273, 307; deficiency in mathematics, 138; advised by S. to choose a military career, 138; Sherman's policy concerning, doubts about his movements, relative strength, and failure to destroy, 146, 159, 160, 163-165, 191, 237, 261, 288, 300, 302-309, 311, 313, 316, 324, 327, 338, 343; defense of Atlanta, 153, 154; faults of his strategy, 153, 154; abandons Atlanta, 158, 159; collects his forces at Lovejoy's Station, 159; S.'s anxiety to attack, 159; advance on Spring Hill, the battle and its strategy, 160, 172, 173, 213, 215-219, 230, 231, 258, 301; westward and northward movement, the crossing of the Tennessee River, and the invasion of and campaign in Tennessee, 160, 163, 164, 167, 191, 193, 252, 254, 258, 289, 301, 303 et seq., 313, 315, 316, 318, 319, 321, 325; advance on and battle at Columbia, 160, 168, 172, 201 et seq., 252, 254, 258, 282; battle of Franklin, 160, 161, 166, 177-181, 183-188, 197, 221-225, 230, 236, 247, 258, 259, 262, 301, 343; battle of Nashville, 160, 242 et seq., 254, 258-275; S. watches his movements, 161, 285; raid on railroad in rear of Atlanta, 161; S.'s narrow escape from capture by, 161; threatens Chattanooga, 161, 163; escapes through the Chattanooga Valley, 161, 162; coincidence of Sherman's and Hood's movements, 162; possibilities and fears of his invading Kentucky and Ohio, 163, 185, 193, 259, 260, 295, 300, 303, 305; movement around Sherman's right, 163; strikes the railroad at Allatoona, 163; Thomas ordered to operate against, 163; varying conditions of strength as compared with Thomas, 163, 164, 190-199, 237, 247, 248, 252, 255, 259-262, 284, 288, 300-302, 308, 314, 319; near Florence, 165; his advance on Pulaski anticipated, 167; climatic influences in his campaign, 167, 193; suspected design to move on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, 171, 203, 205, 206; possibility and necessity of holding him back at Duck River, 171, 196 et seq., 208; danger of his crossing the Harpeth above Franklin, 176; doubts as to his movements, 177, 196 et seq.; criticisms of his assault at Franklin, 183-185; possibilities of S.'s earlier retreat to Nashville, 185; possibilities of Thomas moving against, from Pulaski or Columbia, 194-197; advances from Florence, 195 et seq.; Thomas's purpose to fight him at Columbia, 195-197, 201; necessity of guarding his bridges at Florence, 197; movement via Lawrenceburg, 201; Thomas's anxiety to hold him in check, 205, 206, 220 et seq., 231; superiority in cavalry, 207; gains possession of Rally Hill, 209; to be urged toward Clarksville, 211; Thomas plans to draw him across Duck River, 211; S.'s belief in the ultimate defeat of, 222; crosses the Harpeth, 222-224; S. deprecates further attempt to hold him back, 222, 223; mistakes in the battle of Franklin, 230; relieves Johnston in command. 231; possibilities of defeating S. at Duck River, 231; attack on tile Army of the Tennessee at Peachtree Creek, 232; on Davis's desire for aggressive campaigns, 234; his total defeat, 246-249, 251-254; battle of Atlanta, 247; pursuit of, 248-250; advance from Spring Hill to Franklin, 251; escape across the Tennessee, 251; Franklin his death-blow, 252-254;