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Scales, Brig.-Gen., wounded at Gettysburg, 389.

Scammon, Col, Ohio, defeated near Bull Run, 181.

Scammon, Gen., captured in West Virginia, 599.

Schenck, Maj.-Gen. Robert C., joins Milroy at McDowell, Va., 133; at Cross-Keys, 138; at Gainesville, 183; wounded at second Bull Run, 189.

Schofield, Gen. John M., organizes Missouri militia, 35; 36; 37; succeeds Gen. Curtis, 447; in the Atlanta campaign, 626; fights Hood at Franklin, Tenn., 681-3; at Nashville, 685; captures Wilmington, 715.

Schurz, Gen. Carl, at Gainesville, 183; at Chancellorsville, 357; at Wauhatchie, 436.

Scott, Gen. Winfield, consulted by Pope, 172; Mr. Potter on his strategy, 256.

Scott, Col. J. S., routs Union cavalry, 213.

Secessionville, S. C., Gen. Wright repulsed in an attack on, 461.

Sedgwick, Gen. John, at Malvern Hill, 165; at Antietam, 207; thrice badly wounded, 307; carries Marye's Heights, and assails Lee's rear at Chancellorsville, 363: at Gettvsburg, 380-7; crosses the Rapidan, 566; killed in the Wilderness, 567-71.

Selma, Ala., captured by Gen. Wilson, 719.

Semmes, Gen., killed at Gettysburg, 389.

Semmes, Capt. Raphael, of the Alabama, 643.

seven days battles before Richmond, 153-69.

seven Pines (or Fair Oaks), battle of, 141 to 149; losses sustained at, 148.

Seward, Hon. William H., on the Slave-Trade, 237; murderously assaulted by Payne, 750.

Seymour, Gen. Truman, at Gaines's Mill, 156; succeeds Gen. McCall, 163; commands at South Mountain, 198; operates in Florida, 529; defeated at Olustee, 531; captured at the Wilderness, 569.

Seymour, Horatio, elected Gov. of New York, 254; on the crisis, 499-500; addresses New York rioters, 506; urges the President to suspend drafting, 507.

Shackleford, Gen., routed at Jonesboroa, Tenn., by W. E. Jones, 430.

Shaeffer, Col., killed at Stone River, 274.

Sharpsburg, near Antietam, fighting around, 208.

Shaw, Col. Robert G., 54th Mass., killed at Fort Wagner. 477.

Shelby, Gen., raids into Missouri, 453; is worsted by Carr near St. Charles, 554; captures most of the 54th Illinois, 555; pursues Ewing, 558.

Shelbyville (or Tullahoma), position of Bragg's army, 404; Rosecrans advances to, 410.

Shenandoah, Valley of the, scene of operations, 176; Sigel's movements in the, 179; enemy moving up the Valley of the, 180; Sheridan devastates, 611.

Shepherd, Col., badly cut up at Stone River, 276.

Shepherdstown, Va., a fight at, 393.

Shepley, Gen. G. F., Governor of Richmond, 738.

Sheridan, Gen. Philip H., at Perryville, 218; pushes the enemy to Nolensville, 271; at Stone River, 274; skirmishes with Forrest and Van Dorn, 284; at Chickamauga. 421; at Mission Ridge, 438-442; at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, 574; raids to Richmond, 574; succeeds Gen. Hunter, 707; defeats Early at the Opequan, 609; devastates the Valley, 611; defeats Early at Cedar Creek, 613-14; routs Early at Waynesboroa, 727; attacked by Lee at Five Forks. 731; relieves Warren from command, 733; routs Pickett at Five Forks. 733; heads off Lee's army, 743; at New Orleans, 758.

Sherman. Gen. T. W., issues a proclamation to the people of South Carolina, 240; has taken possession of Edisto Island, 460.

Sherman, Gen. Wm. T., 54; 58; at Pittsburg Landing, 61-69; assails the Yazoo Bluffs, near Vicksburg. 291; at the capture of Fort Hindman. 293; feints on Haines's Bluff, 3103; at the assault on Vicksburg, 310; drives Johnston out of Jackson, Miss., 817; reenforces Grant at Chattanooga, 437; his advance checked, 441; cooperates in driving Bragg from Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga Valley, and Mission Ridge, 413; assigned to the command of the Mississippi, Ohio, &c., 574; begins his Atlanta campaign, 625: drives Jo. Johnson from Dalton and Resaca, 626 to 627; from Dallas and Marietta, 628; is repulsed at Kenesaw Mountain, 629; lie repulses Hood's first attack near Decatur, 631 ; makes a flank movement on Atlanta, 635; compels Hood to abandon Atlanta, 637; orders the removal of the inhabitants from. 637-<*>: concentrates for his great march, 689; his march from, Atlanta to Savannah, 689 to 692 ; captures Fort McAllister, 693; Savannah, 695; remains a month at Savannah, 696; enters South Carolina, 697; his route from Savannah to Goldsboroa, 698; crosses the Edisto and Congaree, 699; fall of Columbia, Charleston, and Fort Sumter, 701; his order as to foraging, 703-4; advances to Fayetteville, N. C., 705; fights Hardee at Averysboroa, 706; Jo. Johnston at Bentonville, 707; reaches Goldsboroa, 708; advances against Johnston at Smithfield, 751; arrangement with Johnston at Smithfield, 752; requires and constrains a surrender, 753.

Sherrill, Col. Eliakim, 112th N. Y., wounded at Harper's Ferry, 200.

Shields, Gen. James. wounded, 114; on battle of Kernstown, 115; joins McDowell at Fredericksburg, 136; ordered back to the Valley, 1:;36; fails to intercept Jackson, 137.

Ship Island, occupied by Gen. Phelps, 82.

Shreveport, La., held by 25,000 men under Price, 538.

Sibley, Gen., his Indian campaign, 455.

Sibley, Gen. H. F., organizes brigade for conquest of New Mexico, 21; at Fort Bliss, 22; Valverde, 22-3; Santa Fe, 24; abandons New Mexico, 25.

Sickles, Gen. Daniel E., at Fredericksburg, 347; at Chancellorsville, 361; worsted by Longstreet, 381; at Gettysburg, 380-87.

Sieges of, Atlanta, 637; Beaufort, N. C., 73; 81; Charleston, 465-7 ; 529; Corinth, 226 to 231; Fort Darling, 141; Fort Donelson, 47-50; Fort Fisher, 711; 713; Fort Gaines, 651; Fort Henry, 45; Fort Hindman, 292; Fort McAllister, Ga., 693: Fort Macon, N. C., 79; Fort Morgan, 651; Fort Pillow, 56, 619; Pulaski, 457; Fort Sanders, 432; Fort Sumter, 467-9; Fort Wagner, 47781; Island Number10, 55; Knoxville, 431-2; Mobile, 649-50; Newbern, 77; Plymouth, N. C., 533; Port Hudson, 318; 331-37; Savannah, 695; Vicksburg, 286318; Yorktown, 120-2.

Sigel, Gen. Franz, retreats from Bentonville, Ark., 27-8; at Pea Ridge, 28-31; succeeds Gen. Fremont, 172; on the Rappahannock, 179: in the fight at Gainesville, 183 ; is defeated at Newmarket by Breckinridge, 599; is superseded by Hunter, 600.

Silliman, Col, killed at Bloody Bridge, 533.

Sill, Gen. J. W., killed at Stone River, 274.

Simmons, Col., 5th Pa., mortally wounded, 162.

Simmsport, La., Banks's army marches to, 551.

Simpson, Col., N. J., killed at Gaines's Mill, 157.

Sinclair, Col. Wm. T., wounded at Fredericksburg, 347.

Skiddaway, S. C., abandoned by the Rebels, 460.

slaughter, Gen. J. E., routs Col. Barrett at Brazos, on the Rio Grande, 757.

Slavery in War, 232; Patrick Henry, J. Q. Adams , Edmund Randolph, and others on, 233-6; Joshua R. Giddings and Gov. Seward on, 237; Mr. Lincoln on, 2:37; the West Point conception of, 237; Gens. McDowell and McClellan on, 237-8; Gen. Butler declares slaves contraband of war, 238; Gen. Cameron, Gen. Fremont, and President Lincoln on. 238-40; Gen. T. W. Sherman's assurance, 240; Gen. Wool's contraband order, 240; Gens. Dix and Halleck on. 241; Cameron and Lincoln on, 24:1,; Seward on, 243-4; Gen. Burnside's Roanoke Island proclamation, 244; Gens. McCook, Buell, and Doubleday on slave-hunting, 244-6; Gen. Thomas Williams expels all fugitives, 246; Col. Paine of Wisconsin thereon, 246; Lt.-Col. D. R. Anthony thereon, 246; Gen. Hunter's order on, annulled by the President, 246-7; Gen. McClellan on, 248-9; Mr. Greeley's letter to the President, and the response, 249; Mr. Lincoln to the Emancipationists, 251; his Proclamation of Freedom, 253-5; Emancipation in Congress, 256; army slave-catching prohibited, 257-8; Slavery excluded from the Territories, 261; Mr. Trumbull on, 263; Slave-Trade suppression, 267; Mr. Sumner

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