Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (193 page)

   goes to Shenandoah Valley,
758

   attacks Early at Winchester and Fisher's Hill,
777

   lays waste to Shenandoah Valley,
778
–79,
784
,
815

   battle of Cedar Creek,
779
–81,
858

   returns to Petersburg front,
844

   battle of Five Forks,
845

   pursues Lee,
847

   at Appomattox,
848

Sherman, John: and 1859 speakership fight,
200
–201

   senator,
329

   on growing emancipation sentiment,
496

   and war finance,
594

Sherman, William Tecumseh,
329
,
483
,
501
,
785

   and march to the sea,
198
,
325
,
806
,
808
–11,
815
,
816

   transfer from Kentucky,
305

   at 1st Bull Run,
341
,
344
and n

   at Shiloh,
408
–9,
412
–13

   Corinth campaign,
416
,
488

   on vulnerability of railroads,
575

   Vicksburg campaign,
577
–78,
586
–87

   Chickasaw Bluffs assault,
579

   denounces trade with enemy,
622

   1863 Vicksburg campaign,
627
–31,
635
,
637
–38

   goes to Chattanooga,
675

   fighting in Chattanooga,
677
–78

   commander of western theater armies,
718

   Atlanta campaign,
719
,
722
,
723
,
743
–56

   capture of Atlanta,
774
–75,
776

   philosophy of war,
786
,
809

   and soldier vote in Indiana,
804

   march through Carolinas,
825
–28,
838
,
844

   and the burning of Columbia,
829

   battle of Bentonville,
830

   Order No. 15 (land for freedmen),
841
–42

   army of, in Grand Review,
853

   qualities of generalship,
857

Shields, James,
457
–60

Shiloh, battle of,
405
–13,
471
,
478
,
483
,
580

   consequences of,
414
–15,
416
,
418

Shoup, Francis,
834

Sickles, Daniel E.: political general,
328

   at Chancellorsville,
641
,
644

   at Gettysburg,
657
–60

Sigel, Franz, named general,
328

   at Wilson's Creek,
351

   at Pea Ridge,
405

   at 2nd Bull Run,
642

   Shenandoah Valley campaign of,
722
–23,
734

   battle of New Market,
724

Sims, Thomas,
83
,
83
–84n

Slave trade, African: closing of,
37

   movement to reopen,
102
–3

   illegal trading,
103

Slavery: economics of,
6
–8,
33
,
39
,
96
–102

   as divisive sectional issue,
7
–8,
28
,
38
–41,
54

   and southern literacy,
20
,
40

   relation to caste and class in South,
199
–200

   correlation with secession,
242
,
255
,
283
–84

   as issue in Civil War,
311
–12

   North and,
354
–58

   McClellan on,
363
–64

   and North during 1862,
494
–500,
502
–10

   as stumbling block to British recognition of Confederacy,
552
–53

   and 20–Negro draft exemption in South,
611
–12

   as issue in Confederate debate over arming blacks,
831
–37.
See also
Emancipation

   Proslavery argument

Slavery in the territories: issue of,
4
,
8
,
41
,
46
,
51
–72

   and Compromise of 1850,
70
–77

   drive for annexation of new slave territory,
103
–16,
194
–95

   in Kansas,
116
,
144
–53,
162
–69

   and Kansas-Nebraska Act,
122
–26

   Lincoln on,
127
–30

   and 1856 election,
154
–62

   Dred Scott case,
171
,
175
–80

   as issue in Lincoln-Douglas debates,
182
–84,
186
–87

   and federal slave code controversy,
195
,
214

   and 1860 election,
227

   and secession,
241
,
253

Slidell, John: supports filibustering,
109
,
195

   and
Trent
affair,
367
,
389
–91,
444

   and French policy in Mexico,
553
–54

   expects French recognition,
555
,
650

Smalls, Robert,
564

Smith, Adam,
96

Smith, Caleb,
219
n,
260
,
270

Smith, Edmund Kirby: and invasion of Kentucky,
516
–20,
524
,
534
,
838

   and treatment of captured black soldiers,
566

   command of trans-Mississippi Department,
668

Smith, Gerrit,
86
,
204
,
207

Smith, Joseph,
43
–44

Smith, Truman,
125

Smith, William F.,
740

Sons of Liberty: and antiwar activities,
762
,
763

   exaggerated notions about,
764
–65

   arrests of,
781
,
782

   Lincoln on,
783

Soulé Pierre,
107
–8,
110
,
112
,
113

South: contrasts with North,
39
–41,
860

   antebellum political power of,
53
,
54
n

   and antebellum economic matters,
91
–102,
192
–93,
195
–96

   Cavalier thesis,
197

   Civil War wrenches to a new direction,
860
–61.
See also
Confederate States of America

   proslavery argument

   Secession

   Slavery

South Mountain, battle of,
537

Southern Commercial Conventions,
93
,
100

   support reopening of slave trade,
102
–3

   and annexation of new slave territory,
104
,
113
–14

Southern Literary Messenger:
on
Uncle Tom's Cabin
,
90

   Cavalier thesis,
197

   and Jefferson Davis,
428

Spaulding, Elbridge G.,
445
–46

Speed, Joshua,
353

Spotsylvania, battle of,
728
–33,
735
,
812

Stanton, Edwin M.,
506

   as Buchanan's attorney-general,
266

   Lincoln's war secretary,
324

   and General Stone,
363

   fears
C.S.S. Virginia
,
376

   creates Union ram fleet,
417

   relaxes internal security,
436

   suspends recruiting,
437

   and McClellan's Peninsula campaign,
464
,
468

   and new enlistments in 1862,
492
–93

   disgust with McClellan,
504

   and western strategy,
511

   and railroad logistics,
514

   McClellan attacks,
525

   and 2nd Bull Run,
532

   wants McClellan's removal,
533

   McClellan wants Stanton's removal,
569

   sends Dana west,
589

   prods Rosecrans,
669

   and transfer of troops to Chattanooga,
675

   and breakdown of p.o.w. exchange,
792
–93

   and southern prisons,
797

   reduces prisoner rations,
798