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Mahan, Capt. Alfred T., on the relative functions of the army and navy, 527

Malaria, the military method of conquering, 256

Man, reversionary tendencies in, 428

Manter, Capt., commanding battery at Fredericktown, Mo., 53

Marietta Road, Ga., military operations on the, 135

Marsh, George P., entertains S. at Florence, 393

Martin, Asst. Adjt.-Gen. J. P., action in labor riots at Chicago, 494, 496, 497, 503, 504, 507

Maryland, the Confederate invasion of, 234

Maximilian, Archduke and Emperor, assumes empire in Mexico, 378 et seq.; attitude of the Austrian government concerning, 385; Weakness of his position in and hopes of his evacuating Mexico, 391

Maxims of war, their use in official life, 482, 483

Meade, Maj.-Gen. George G., commanding Division of the Atlantic, 429; entertains Grant, Sherman, and S. at Philadelphia, 429; president of Fairmount Park commission, 429; designated to command the Division of the Pacific, 429; death, 430

Medals of honor, 474, 475

Meigs, Q.-M.-Gen. Montgomery C., on the civil war, 365; favors S.'s plan of War Department reform, 479

Memphis, Tenn., Fremont's plan of campaign below, 49; Hatch sends troops to Nashville from, 205, 206

Merritt, Maj.-Gen., Wesley, protection of the pacific railroads, 511

Mexican war, Thomas's service in, 189; experience of army officers in, 514, 515

Mexico, violation of the Monroe Doctrine in, 276; French intervention in, 377 et seq., 543; recognition of the republic by the United States, 379, 381; preparations for military intervention in, 379-383; France demands recognition of the empire in, 384; Napoleon prepares for evacuation of, 389-391, 393; the end of the Franco-Austrian intrigues, 393; the fates of Maximilian and Carlotta, 393

Miles, Maj.-Gen. Nelson A., telegram from S., July 2, 1894, 406; battle of Wounded Knee, 488; absence from his post, 493, 494; commanding Department of the Missouri, 494; doubts the use of United States troops in Chicago, 494; action and orders in the Chicago labor riots, 494-501, 503, 504

Military commission, trial by, 398-400

Military committee of the Senate, hinders S.'s confirmation as major-general, 109, 110, 117

Military correspondence, unreliability of, 188

Military criticism, the true basis of, 191; faults of, 336; the aim of, 339, 344; difficulties of, 356, 357

Military cruelty, 435

Military Department of Missouri, demand that Butler relieve S. in command of the, 94

Military Department of West Point, creation of the, 444

Military departments, 408

Military discipline, 7

Military Division of the Atlantic, the, creation of, 417; Meade commanding, 429, 430; Hancock assigned to command, 430; S. succeeds Hancock in command, 456 et seq., 487

Military Division of the Gulf, Sheridan commanding, 380; creation, of, 447, 448; broken up, 450, 451; S. commanding, 447, 450, 451

Military Division of the Mississippi, the, Grant commanding, 109; Sherman succeeds Grant in command, 109, 116; the cavalry corps of, in the Nashville campaign, 227, 264

Military Division of the Missouri, the, Sheridan takes command of, 425; S. succeeds to command, 427, 453-456; importance of, 456

Military Division of the Pacific, the, Thomas appointed to command, 278; Meade designated to succeed Thomas, 429; S. commanding, 430, 439, 440; Canby commanding, 435; command offered to S., 450; McDowell commanding, 450; S. reassigned to command, 453

Military education, advantages of, 5-7; necessity of, for officers in high command, 181-183; national necessity for, 366, 516 et seq., 534-536

Military government, prejudices against, 434-438

Military history, the logic of contemporaneous, 198; the writing of, 298, 300

Military records, unreliability of, 188

Military reform, a needed measure of, 538

Military roads, 509-512

Military rules versus civil practice, 476-478

Military strategy and tactics, modern versus ancient, 146; the true system for the Civil War, 146; division of forces, 220; use of roads at night, 231; two kinds of strategy, 336, 337; territorial strategy, 358, 359; application of European rules in America, 359

Military study, 2:35

Military system, 345, 346

Military telegrams and despatches, difficulties and delays attending their transmission and deciphering, 169, 204, 206, 207, 211, 214, 218, 220, 224, 232, 233

Military training, 407 et seq.

Militia, Gen. Scott's distrust of, 513

Milledgeville, Ga., Sherman proposes to wreck, 318

Milroy, Maj.-Gen. Robert H., in the Tennessee campaign, 205

Mint-julep, 26

Mississippi, Hood's proposed movement toward, 163; Thomas proposes a campaign in, 253, 255, 256; possible operations in, 305; Thomas to have command over, 317

Mississippi River, the, Fremont's plan of campaign on, 49; military operations on, 63-66, 70, 318; S. seeks service on, 64-66; importance of the opening of, 70, 337; Halleck's plan for clearing west of, 359; development of railroad communication between the Pacific and, 491, 492

Missouri, Rev. James Schofield's mission work in, 1; loyal and patriotic citizens of, 30, 31; disloyalty and flight of the governor, 32, 54; disbanding and reorganization of the State militia and raising of troops in, 32-37, 55, 56, 84, 85, 87, 88, 90, 94, 95, 98, 101, 105, 106; the affair at Camp Jackson,

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