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of, 262; loss of documents concerning the battle, 262, 263; S.'s report of the battle, 266, 269, 270, 280 et seq.; military conference at, Dec. 14, 1864, 272; council at, Dec. 9, 1864, 296; Sherman's measures for the protection of, 304; possible siege of, 319, 321, 322; as base of supplies, 320; possible movement of Beauregard from Corinth against, 321
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, fear of Hood's gaining possession of the, 171, 195 et seq., 201, 203, 205, 206
National credit, the maintenance of, 529-534
National Guard, the, 522
Nature, the laws of, 532-534
Negroes, question of recruiting, in Missouri, 73; question of suffrage for, 373, 374, 376; status after emancipation, 367-376, 446
Negro suffrage, forced upon the South, 396 et seq.
Negro troops, enlistment of, 90, 92, 99
Neuse River, bridged by S., 346
New Hope Church, Ga., military operations near, 143
New Madrid, Mo., mutiny among troops ordered to, 84, 85, 87
New Market, Tenn., S. retires on, 115
New Mexico, obstruction of railroads in, 512
New Smyrna, Fla., S. at, 19
Newton, Maj.-Gen., John, battle of Resaca, 140
Newtonia, Mo., military movements at, 38
New York, a forbidden trip from West Point to, 7, 8; S. leaves for Liverpool, 385; Gen. Scott removes his headquarters from Washington to, 406, 469; Sherman's fondness for, 542
‘New York Herald,’ quoted, 386, 387
‘New York Times,’ cited, 293, 294
Nickajack, Cox secures position on, 144
Ninety-Fifth Ohio Infantry, in battle of Nashville, 268
Ninth Army Corps, at Knoxville, 113
Nolensville Turnpike, Tenn., military operations on, 267
North Carolina, Sherman's march through, 314, 330, 340, 346-348; capitulation of Johnston in, 335; S. ordered to, 345, 543; operations of the Twenty-third Corps in, 346; the end of the war in, 353; S. military governor of, 346, 351, 360, 367-377; the negro question in, 367-376; announcement of cessation of hostilities, 368, 369; restoration of order and trade in, 369, 370; reconstruction in, 370-376; the domestic relations in, 371, 372; restrictions of the Treasury on trade in, 373; question of the State Constitution, 373-376; provisional government, 376, 377; S. resigns command in, 377; appointment of Provisional Governor Holden, 377
North Dakota, obstruction of railroads in, 512
‘Northern Ohio Democrat,’ the (of Toledo), cited, 293-295
Northern Pacific Railroad, military protection on the line of the, 510-512
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Oahu, a trial to, 432
Ohio, possibilities of Hood's invading, 305
Ohio River, fears of Hood's reaching, 295, 300
Okeechobee, Lake, military operations at, 23-25
Olley's Creek, Cox forces the passage of, 441
Olney, Atty.-Gen. Richard, report of, cited, 493; approves S.'s order of May 25, 1894, 509
Omaha, military station at, 454; S. at, 509
Oneco, Wis., S. teaches school at, 2
One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, a young straggler from the, 155, 156 Opdycke, Maj.-Gen. Emerson, in battle of Franklin, 177-181, 229; the meed of praise due to, 179-181
Oregon, visit of Sherman and S. to, 430; the Modoc Indians in, 434-437 O'Reilley, Thomas, member of anti-Scho-field committee from St. Louis to Washington, 58, 59
Otis, Brig.-Gen., commanding Department of the Columbia, 510; orders to, concerning obstruction of Pacific rail-roads, 510, 511
Owens River, the earthquake of 1871 on the, 431
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Pacific Ocean, development of railroad communication between the Mississippi and the, 491, 492
Pacific railroads, the, riots on, 492 et seq.; the acts authorizing, 509, 510; military roads, 509-512
Palais Royal, Prince Napoleon's dinner at, 389
Palatka, Fla., S. at, 19
Palmer, Maj.-Gen. John M., movement before Atlanta, Aug. 4-5, 1864, 149; mistakes, 149, 150; his national services, 150; S.'s esteem for, 150, 151; Thomas's opinion of, 151
Palmetto Station, Ga., Hood's movement from, 316
Paola, Kan., Lane's scheme of retaliatory movement from, 81-84
Paper money, 532
Paris, France, S.'s mission to, 384-393; speech by S. at the American Thanksgiving dinner, 386, 387; courtesies to S. in, 392
Paris, Tenn., possible movement by Beauregard to, 311; Forrest at, 319
Paris, Comte de, on S.'s services in the southwest, 62
Parke, Maj.-Gen. John G., attempts to drive Longstreet from Tennessee, 114.
Parrott guns, 50
Parsons, Col. Lewis B., conducts transport arrangements for the Twenty-third Corps, 345
Partizanship, dangerous, 540, 543
Party politics, a detriment in the War Department, 407 et seq.
Patriotism, of the American soldier, 183; a valuable kind of, 360; true, 481; professional, 539, 540
Peabody Fund, Grant at meeting of trustees of, 413
Pearl River, examination of the harbor of, 432
Pennock, Rear-Adm., takes S. to Hawaii, 431
Pennsylvania, the Confederate invasion of, 234; delays in calling out her reserves, 525
Pensacola, Fla., possible movement by Sherman to, 312, 332
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