Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction (112 page)

Ripley, George,
405

Ripley, James Wolfe,
251
,
315
,
316–17

Rise of Silas Lapham, The
(novel),
521

Roanoke Island, North Carolina,
159
,
328

Robinson, Frank,
244

Rock, John S.,
180
,
386

Rock Island Bridge Co.,
189

Rodes, Robert,
333

Rollins, James,
471

Romanticism,
26–27
,
33
,
234
,
327
,
372
,
405
,
407
,
413
,
416
,
534

Root, George Frederick,
529

Rosecrans, William Starke,
347
,
348–49
,
351
,
352
,
353
,
354
,
467

Ruffin, Edmund,
25

Runzer, John,
428

Russell, John (1st Earl Russell),
285
,
294
,
295–96

Russell, William Howard,
24
,
28
,
32
,
140
,
153
,
186
,
188
,
281

Rutledge, Ann,
104

San Francisco, California,
437

Sanborn, Franklin H.,
117

Sand Creek, Colorado,
388

Sanford, John,
90

Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de,
59–60
,
147

Sante Fe Trail,
389

Saulsbury, Willard,
228

Savannah, Georgia,
159
,
286
,
356
,
374
,
384
,
444
,
445
,
446
,
487

Savannah, Tennessee,
204–6

Savannah River,
302
,
374
,
445
,
448

Saylor’s Creek, Virginia, battle of (1865),
477

Schaff, Morris,
514

Schiebert, Justus,
244
,
257
,
335

Schofield, John M.,
440

Schurz, Carl,
491

Scientific American
,
518

Scotland,
238

Scott v. Sanford. See under
U.S. Supreme Court

Scott, Dred and Harriet,
90
,
92

Scott, Winfield,
62
,
72
,
83
,
147
,
150
,
151
,
153
,
154
,
156
,
157
,
160
,
165
,
223
,
190
,
246

and “Anaconda Plan,”
150
,
159
,
190

secession,
129–31
,
144
,
146
,
191
,
192
,
233
,
356
,
455
,
492

Second Bull Run, battle of (1862),
169

Seddon, James A.,
338
,
340
,
444

Sedgwick, John,
331

Sellers, Charles Grier,
100

Selma, Alabama,
321
,
346

Seminoles (tribe),
387

Semmes, Raphael,
309

Seneca Falls Convention (1848),
392
,
403

Sepoy Rebellion (1857),
254
,
296

Seven Days’ Battle (1862),
166–67

and Allen’s Farm,
166

and Gaines Mill,
166

and Glendale (Frayser’s Farm),
166

and Malvern Hill,
169
,
275

and Mechanicsville,
166

and Savage’s Station,
166

and White Oak Swamp,
168

See also
Peninsula Campaign

Seven Pines, battle of (1862),
164
,
275

Seward, William Henry,
68
,
83
,
84
,
122
,
124
,
133
,
452
,
462
,
463

as secretary of state,
284–86
,
288
,
375

Seymour, Horatio,
228
,
501

Seymour, William,
335–36

Sharpe, Granville,
43

Sharps, Christian,
250

Sharpsburg, Maryland,
170

Shaw, Robert Gould,
480
,
406
,
530

Shelby Iron Works,
318

Shelton Laurel, North Carolina,
368

Shenandoah Valley,
166
,
168
,
169
,
271
,
339
,
448
,
463
,
468

Shephardsville, Kentucky,
233

Shepperson, William,
411

Sheridan, Philip Henry,
348
,
468
,
476
,
477
,
478
,
500

Sherman, Ellen Ewing,
236

Sherman, John,
220
,
449
,
493

Sherman, William Tecumseh,
206
,
211
,
236
,
247–48
,
269
,
355
,
384
,
424–25
,
426
,
437–40
,
441–42
,
443–44
,
446–48
,
466
,
470
,
474
,
475
,
480
,
490
,
501

and Grant,
437
,
438–39
,
444–46

and March to the Sea,
445

and slavery,
437
,
439–40

and Special Field Orders #15,
487

Shewmake, Susan Cornwall,
32

Shields, James,
107

Shiloh, battle of (1862),
205–8
,
209
,
248
,
272
,
276
,
338
,
349
,
353
,
364
,
394
,
408
,
438

and “The Hornet’s Nest,”
206

Shorter, John Gill,
357

Simms, William Gilmore,
408

Singleton, William Henry,
35

Sioux (tribe),
387

slavery,
28–29
,
30–33
,
37–41
,
51–52
,
53
,
59
,
88
,
89
,
93
,
109
,
113–14
,
123
,
128
,
173–74
,
181
,
218
,
233
,
235
,
297
,
300
,
370
,
410
,
471
,
472–73
,
509
,
516–17

and natural law,
111–12

and slaveholders,
238
,
327

Slidell, John,
286–88
,
291
,
292

Slocum, Henry Warner,
331
,
332

Smith, Adam,
12
,
15

Smith, Gerrit,
117

Smith, Goldwin,
533

Smith, William “Extra Billy,”
370

Smith, Xanthus R.,
529

soldier life,
232–77

and alcohol,
275

and desertion,
274–75

and disease,
265

and food,
268–70

and medicine,
266–68
,
272–74
,
401–2

and training,
243–49

and uniforms,
242–43

Soldiers and Sailors Leagues (veterans’ organization),
523

“Sons of Liberty,”
226

South Carolina,
24
,
43
,
82
,
126
,
129
,
130
,
131
,
135–36
,
143
,
144
,
159
,
217
,
233
,
254
,
336
,
361
,
364
,
373
,
385
,
396
,
398
,
408
,
440
,
470
,
491
,
492
,
498
,
504
,
506
,
509
,
510
,
513

South Mountain, battle of (1862),
170

Southampton (Great Britain),
288

Southern Illustrated News
,
388

Southern Literary Messenger
,
408

Southern Loyalists Convention,
496

Southern Quarterly Review
,
408

Southern Review
,
408

“Southron’s Chaunt of Defiance, The” (song),
411

Spanish-American War (1898),
268

Speed, James,
483

Spencer, Christopher Miner,
250

Spencer, Eliphaz,
502

Spiegel, Marcus,
236

spies,
395

Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, battle of (1864),
431–32

Sprague, William,
449

Spratt, Leonidas,
40
,
85

Springfield, Illinois,
88
,
100
,
103
,
107
,
124
,
216
,
242

Springfield, Massachusetts,
317

St. Gaudens, Augustus,
530

St. George, Bermuda,
279

St. Louis
(gunboat),
198

St. Louis, Missouri,
70
,
187
,
191–92

Stanbery, Henry,
500

Standard Oil of Ohio,
521

Stanly, Edward,
455

Stanton, Edwin M.,
160
,
166
,
214
,
227
,
228
,
314–18
,
321–22
,
353–54
,
422
,
430
,
459
,
466
,
482
,
483
,
487
,
488
,
489
,
501
,
504
,
535

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
49
,
392
,
403

Star of the West
,
136

states’ rights,
28
,
327
,
358
,
359
,
368