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Shelby, Brig.-Gen. Joseph O., raid into Missouri, 101

Shelbyville, Tenn., military operations at, 205, 207

Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs., 19

Sheridan, Lieut.-Gen. Philip H., appointed lieutenant-general, U. S. A., 117; on Stuart's defeat before Richmond, 154; policy of resting his men and animals, 154; ordered to the Rio Grande, 379; commanding Military Division of the Gulf, 380; Grant's orders to, concerning S.'s Mexican mission, 380-382; general-in-chief, 421, 427; difficulties with the War Department, 421, 471, 478; transferred from the Department of the Missouri to the Division of the Missouri, 425; succeeded by S., 425, 459; interest in the cavalry service, 427; Sherman's desire to retire in favor of, 449; succeeds Sherman, 453; selects site of Fort Sheridan, 454, 455; services to Chicago, 455; death and burial, 467; action on the retirement for age bill, 481

Sherman, Rev., Thomas, performs services at his father's funeral, 542

Sherman, Lieut.-Gen. William T., S.'s meeting with at Portland in 1870, 24; promoted to command the Military Division of the Mississippi, 109, 116; siege of Knoxville raised by, 113; approves S.'s services and policy, 118; at Knoxville, 118, 119; opinion of the Twenty-third Corps, 120; the spirit of S.-s criticisms of, 121 et seq.; his ‘Memoirs’ cited, 121, 122, 129, 134,135, 138, 142-144, 147, 149, 153, 157, 158, 161, 191, 308, 310, 321, 411, 412, 477; relations with and confidence in S., 121 et seq., 134, 164, 165, 252, 341, 342, 541, 542; the organization of his army in the Atlanta campaign, 122 et seq.; campaign before Atlanta, its capture and burning, 122 et seq., 146, 148, 149, 152-155, 158-160, 231, 308, 316, 318, 321, 338-343; admiration for, and grief at death of, McPherson, 125, 146; controversy as to battle of Kolb's Farm, 133-136; on Hooker's ambition, 136; strained relations between Hooker and, 136, 139-141; test of courage between Hooker and, 140, 141; the assault of fortified lines by, 142-148, 182; Special Field Orders, No. 28, 144; responsibility for the assault at Kenesaw Mountain, 144; policy concerning Hood, 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; credits S. with his own soldierly actions, 147; courage in action, 147; caution, 152; battle of Jonesboroa, 153, 157-159; Thomas's opinion of his proposed movement, 153 ; plans and operations in Georgia, the march to the sea, etc., 153, 157-160, 163-165, 236, 252, 255, 261, 285, 299-306, 308, 310-322, 326, 327, 330-334, 337-340, 343, 347 (for specific operations and battles, see names of localities, etc.); orders S. to report to Stanley, 156; opportunity to attack Hardee, 159; raises the question of relative rank between Stanley and S., 160; his judgment therein reversed, 161; desires S. to write a critical history of the Atlanta campaign, 162; coincidence of Hood's and Sherman's movements, 162; contradicts Thomas's order to defend Caperton's Ferry, 162; Hood's movement around his right, 163; proposed change of base, 163, 164, 327; sends troops into Tennessee, 163-165; S. reports to, 164; S. asks to be sent to Thomas, 164; sends reinforcements to Thomas, 164, 165; Capt. Twining's ride to meet, 174; criticism on the battle of Franklin, 187; Thomas's service under, 189; his estimates of Thomas's strength in Tennessee, 191, 192; instructions to Thomas, 193, 194, 197-200; stragglers, etc., from his army at Chattanooga, 195 et seq.; questions S. concerning Hood, 231; crosses the Chattahoochee, 231; undue haste in starting for the sea, 236, 301 et seq., 310, 314, 315; sends S. to Tennessee, 252; at Savannah, 255; expectations as to Thomas's movements, 255; northward march through the Carolinas, 256, 316, 318, 327, 330-334, 337-340, 342, 346-348; informs Thomas as to Hood's strength, 261; opinion of the battle of Nashville, 262; asks that command of Division of the Pacific be given to Thomas, 278; on the duty of a commander to take personal command, 286; belief in Thomas's ability to hold Hood, 288, 324; perplexing situation, 300; superabundance of strength, 302; Hood's suppositions as to his movements, 303; explanation of the march to the sea, 303, 310 et seq.; measures to secure Nashville, 304; illustration of his attitude toward Hood, 305, 306; Porter's mission from Grant to, 306.; Hood's raid in his rear, 308; destroys the Chattanooga railroad, 308; proposed movement in Chattooga Valley, 308; defiance to Pres. Davis in Georgia, 309, 310, 322; cuts the telegraph, 310; possible movement against Beauregard, 311; S.'s objections to his plans, 313, 314, 323 et seq.; innocence of ravages after Lee's surrender, 314; share in the subjection of the South, 314, 315; at Cartersville, 315; theory of war, 317; at Rome, 318; at Gaylesville, 318; to destroy railroads in Georgia, 319, 322; moves to Kingston, 320; burns Rome, 321; moves from Atlanta, 322; impatience, 322; military genius, 324, 330-342, 344, 355-358; his policy indorsed by success, 323; relations with and opinions of Grant, 324, 337, :347, 348, 357, 358, 443, 479, 543; at Gaylesburg, 326; probable expectations from the Tennessee campaign, 329; joint operations with Grant against Lee, 331 et seq., 337, :347, 348; possible movements against Mobile and Pensacola, 332; movement to Augusta, 332, 337, 338; loyalty, 334; Johnston's negotiations with and capitulation to, 335, 348-353, 355, 356, 360, 361; knowledge of Thomas's character, 336; credited by Grant with his plans and achievements, 337; Lee's army his objective, 337, 347, 348; loss of his mastery in Georgia, 338; failure of Hood and Forrest to damage his communications, 338; aims to destroy Georgia, 339; a master of logistics, 339; repulse at Kenesaw, 340; character of his campaign against Johnston, 342; claims credit for destruction of Hood. 343; plans junction with S. at Goldsboroa, 346; at Laurel Hill, 346; battle of Bentonville, 346; arrives at Goldsboroa, 346; visit to Grant at City Point, 347,

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