South Carolina, _see_ Charleston South Carolina College, 208 South Carolina Railroad Co., xx South Mountain, battle of, 94 _Southern Literary Messenger_, xxvii _Southern Review_, xxvii, 272 Southwest Territory, 451, 454 _Souvenirs of Travels_, Le Vert’s, 362 Spain, and War of 1742, 297; in the West Indies, 328; claims of, in United States, 334; acquires Florida, 347; acquires New Orleans, 423-427; in the Mississippi Valley, 433, 436; _see also_ Mobile, New Orleans, St. Augustine Spanish, destroy Port Royal Colony, 250; attack Charleston, 256-258; in Georgia, 302; at Mobile, 329, 330, 331, 336; at Pensacola, 332; at New Orleans, 346, 423-427; Burr’s flight to the, 353; _see also_ Spain Sparks, Jared, quoted, 34 Speed, John Gilmer, 525 Spencer, settles in Kentucky, 479 Spotswood, Governor, 196, 210 Spring Hill Redoubt, 294, 318 Stagg, Charles, 211 Stamp Act, 82, 83, 196, 199, 206, 238 Stanhope, 259 Stansberry, Mrs., 288 Stanton, E. M., 283 _Statesman_, the London, quoted, 136 Steele, in attack on Spanish Fort, 372 Steele, General, captures Little Rock, 553 Stephenson, George, 278 Stevenson, Dr. Henry, 12, 18 Stevenson, Dr. John, 12, 14 “Stevenson’s Folly,” 18 Stewart, Anthony, 63 Stewart, Doctor, 88 Stewart, George N., 362 Stewart, Peggy, house of, 64 Stiles, President Ezra, quoted, 201 Stone, Governor, 52, 59, 109 Stovall, P. A., on Savannah, 293-325 Strawbridge, Robert, establishes Methodism in Md., 82 Stuart, David, 122 Stuart, Gilbert, 274, 531 Sullivan’s Island, 256 _Sumter_, the, 366 Sunbury, Ga., 296, 312, 313 _Susan Constant_, the, 151 Susquehanna, the, and the national capital, 111 Susquehannoghs, the, 56, 76 “Swamp Angel,” the, 282 _Swan_, the, 366 Swan Tavern, Richmond, 174 T Tampico, 329 Taney, R. B., 60; at Frederick, 92 Tarleton, Colonel, 84 Taylor, Hannis, 377 Taylor, Zachary, 504, 530, 532 Tazewell, John, 201 Teach, 230, 231 Teasdale, John, 277 _Tecumseh_, the, 370 Tennessee, _see_ Knoxville and Nashville Tennessee Historical Society, 482 _Tennessee_, the, 369, 371 Tennessee, University of, 458, 459, 474 Tennyson, quoted, 507 Tensaws, the, 341 _Terra Mariæ_, 51, 75 Texas, xxvi, 207, 332, 335, 395 Thackeray, W. M., 78; quoted, 182 Theus, 274 Thomas, Gen., xxx, 497, 498 Thompson, John R., 168, 180 Thorington, Col. John H., 391 Thornton, Dr. Wm., and the Capitol at Washington, 121 Throckmorton, Major, and Charles Dickens, 522 Thruston, Gates P., on Nashville, 477-501 Ticknor, Captain, 395, 398 _Times_, the London, quoted, 468 Timrod, Henry, xxvii, 273, 274, 288 “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” campaign, 395 Tobacco, cultivation of, in the South, xvii Toleration Act of 1649 in Va., 51, 52 Tolstoy, xxx Tomochichi, 306-308 Tondee’s tavern, 319