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Tecumseh,” iron-clad, sunk by a torpedo in the harbor of Mobile, 3.441.

Tennessee, the people of adverse to secession, i 199; the author's experiences in 1.348; progress of secession in under Gov. Harris, 1.386; military league formed by with the Confederate States, 1.387; fraud practiced on the people of, 1.388; military movements in, 2.197-2.205; Andrew Johnson appointed military governor of 2.285; Thomas's campaign in against Hood, 3.416-3.429.

Tennessee Iron Works, destruction of, 2.232.

Tennessee,” ram, capture of in Mobile harbor, 3.442.

Terry, Gen. A. H., his movement against James's Island, 3.201; his Fort Fisher expedition, 3.485.

Te<*>as, secession obstructed in by Gov. Houston, 1.62; respect for the Union in, 1.186; intrigues of the Knights of the Golden Circle in, 1.187; secession convention in, 1.188; surrender by Gen. Twiggs of forts, troops and stores in, 1.267; in the Confederacy, 1.273; sufferings of loyalists in, 2.536; massacre of a band of young Germans in, 2.537; Gen. Banks's operations in, 3.223.

Thomas, Gen George H., at the battle of Mill Spring, 2.194; movements of toward East Tennessee, 2.200; at the battle of Murfreesboroa, 2.545; at the battle of Chickamauga, 3.138; assigned to the command of the Army of the Cumberland, 3.144; at the battle on Missionaries' Ridge, 3.167; troops placed under the command of by Sherman, 3.399; campaign of against Hood in Tennessee, 3.416-3.429.

Thompson, Gen., Jeff. M., power exercised by in Missouri, 2.58.

Thompson, Jacob, implicated in the Indian Trust Fund robbery, 1.144.

Tolland, Col. John, his raid in West Virginia, 3.112.

Tompkins, Lieut. Charles H., his dash on Fairfax Court-House, 1.487.

Toombs, Robert, incendiary speeches of, 1.53; his efforts to promote secession in Georgia, 1.177; violent speech of in the Senate, 1.223; the humbug of the Confederacy (note), 2.471.

Torpedo, described (note), 1.528.

Torpedoes (note), 2.61; (note), 2.202; (note), 2.237; 3.194.

Travelers' Repose,” tavern, battle near, 2.100.

Tredegar Iron Works, heavy ordnance made at, 2.35.

Trent,” steamer, Mason and Slidell taken from by Captain Wilkes, 2.154; details in relation to the affair of the, 2.155-2.166.

Troops, President Lincoln's first call for, 1.386.

Tullahoma, flight of Bragg from, 3.123.

Tupelo, Beauregard at, 2.294; Forest driven out of by Gen. A. J. Smith, 3.248.

Twiggs, Gen., treasonable action of, 1.189; treasonable conduct of, 1.266; his surrender of forts, troops and stores in Texas, 1.267; general order issued by, 1.268; ignominious flight of from New Orleans, 2.341.

Tylee, Col. E. B., surprised at Cross Lanes, 2.93.

Tyler, John, chosen President of the Washington Peace Congress, 1.237; insincerity of, 1.244.


U.

UnionAssociation in Philadelphia, 1.577.

Union City, garrison of surrendered by Col. Hawkins, 3.243.

Unionists, indecision of in Georgia, 1.177; sufferings of Southern, 2.21; banishment of, 2.33, 35, 36.

Union Square meeting in New York, in 1861, 1.354.


V.

Vallandigham, Clement L. amendment to the Constitution proposed by, 1.88; speech of in Congress against the “coercion” policy, 1.571, 573; factious conduct of, 3.83; sent within the Confederate lines, 3.84; <*>atio Seymour on the arrest of, 3.85.

Van Dorn, Major EA<*>E, appears in Texas with a commission as colonel from Davis, 1.271; receives the surrender of Major Sibley, 1.272, and of Col. Reese, 1.273; in command of Confederate troops in Arkansas, 2.251; driven over the Duck River by Sheridau, 3.117; repulsed at Franklin, 3.118; death. <*>note), 3.118.

Vicksburg, <*>lockade of the Mississippi at 1.164; strongly fortined by the Confederates, 2.524; batteries at bombarded by Farragut, 2.527; operations of Grant and Sherman against, 2.572-2.582; slege of, 2.583-2.591; operations of Grant in the vicinity of, 2.603-2.613; investment of by Grant's forces, 2.614; assault on the works at by Sherman's troops, 2.616; unsuccessful general assault on the defenses of, 2.617; close investment of, 2.620, 621; caves and cave life in, 2.622; plans for the escape of the garrison of, 2.624; siege of, 2.615-2.627; surrender of, 2.628; terms of the surrender of, 2.628; visit of the author to in 1866, III 689.

Vienna, skirmish at 1.526.

Virginia, leaders of secession in, 1.42; special mission of Memminger to from south Carolina, 1.93; hesitation of the legislature of, 1.94; action of in relation to secession, 1.193; progress of the secession movement in, 1.375; reply of President Lincoln to commissioners from, 1.376; how the ordinance of secession was carried, 1.377; effect produced by the news of the secession of, 1.378; league formed by with the conspirators at Montgomery, 1.383; the blockade extended to the ports of, 1.451; plans of campaign in, in the spring of 1864, 3.293.

Virginia convention, election of delegates to, 1.195.

Virginia, Western, Union sentiment prevalent in the western portion of, 1.488; military operations in, 2.92-2.104; military operations in, 2.367; guerrilla movements in, 3.313.

Volunteers, character of the first Southern, 1.478.

Von Steinwehr, Gen. A., at the battle of Chancellorsville, 3.29.

Votes at the presidential election of 1860, 1.36.


W.

Wadsworth, Gen., James, placed in command of troops in Washington, 2.371; death of at the battle of the Wilderness, 3.302.

Walker, Robert J., speech of in New York, 1.357.

Wallace,G Gen. Lewis, employed to raise six regiments in Indiana, 1.455; his expedition against insurgents at Romney, 1.516; operations of in Northwestern Virginia, 1.528-1.530; important services of at the battle of Fort Donelson, 2.216; at the battle of Shiloh, 2.278; his measures for the defense of Cincinnati, 2.508; at the battle of the Monocacy, 3.343.

Wallace, Gen. W. H. L., mortally wounded at the battle of Shiloh, 2.275.

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