Ewell in; Stanton's interference; Sigel in; Hunter's retreat; Early in; Sheridan in; Opequan Creek; "Sheridan's Ride"; Cedar Creek; Federal victory Sheridan, General P. H., raid helps Lincoln's reëlection; Chattanooga; Stanton falsifies Grant's order to; as a general; Grant and; Todd's Tavern; Richmond raid; Cold Harbor; raid; Trevilian; Opequan Creek; "Sheridan's Ride"; in Washington; later operations; Five Forks Sherman, General W. T., colonel in Louisiana State Military Academy; leaves Louisiana; and Lyon; assists Scott; account of McDowell's march; as a leader; Port Royal expedition; age; attempt to take Vicksburg; Kentucky command; reported insane; diffident about rise; Shiloh; joins Grant; Chickasaw Bluffs; and Lincoln; Vicksburg campaign; commands Army of Tennessee; Chattanooga; Red River Expedition spoils strategy of; and Stanton; on relative forces in South; threatens Georgia; Dalton; fitness for command; advance; Resaca; New Hope Church; at Allatoona; at Kenesaw; maneuvers Johnston; battle of Atlanta; asks reinforcements; announces fall of Atlanta; Lincoln's reply to; campaign (1864); quoted; at Atlanta; Hood's attempt on Allatoona; preponderance of force; March to the Sea; presents Savannah to Lincoln; march through Carolinas; conference at City Point (Virginia); terms of surrender to Johnston; on Lincoln Shields, General James, Kernstown; at Catlett's Station; Port Republic Shiloh, Grant's army assembles near; Confederate preparations; Grant's position and force; battle; losses; outcome; result Shine, Elizabeth, mother of Farragut Ship Island, taken; Farragut at Sibley, General H. H., in New Mexico Sickles, General D. E., at Gettysburg Sigel, General Franz, Wilson's Creek; Second Bull Run; command in Shenandoah Valley; Hunter replaces Simpson, Grant's mother's name Slavery, Lee and; _see also_ Emancipation, Negroes Slemmer, Lieutenant, command at Pensacola; defends Fort Pickens Smith, General A. J., at Tupelo Smith, Captain C. F., Grant's admiration for; as a leader; Fort Donelson; ordered by Halleck to command expedition; Shiloh Smith, General G. W., and Jackson's plan Smith, Giles, Chattanooga Smith, General Kirby, Bull Run Smith, William, quartermaster on _Kearsarge_ Sons of Liberty South, seceding States of; war party in; population (1861); resources; transportation; sea-power; _see also_ Navy, Confederate; reason for fighting; advantages; raiders; situation (1864); losses (1864); cause lost; number of troops South Carolina, secedes; defeat at Port Royal; _see also_ Carolinas, Charleston South Mountain, Stuart at Spotsylvania (Virginia), battle Stanton, E. M., Secretary of War; and Lincoln; military interference; and Lee; Cameron succeeded by; Banks and; orders McClellan to Aquia; and Hooker; forbids use of cipher; and Grant's orders _Star of the West_, merchant vessel fired on at Charleston Staunton (Virginia), Jackson at; Hunter's success at