Savannah, Georgia, occupied by Sherman, December 21 1864, 412

Schofield, J.M., brevet major-general, general-in-chief,
United States army, ordered to join Sherman, 414;
joins Sherman 417

Schurz, Carl, major-general United States Volunteers,
United States senator,
Secretary of the Interior, asks permission to take part
in presidential campaign, 444

Scott Dred, case of, 108, 109

Scott, Robert E., tendered cabinet appointment 164

Scott, Winfield, lieutenant-general United States army,
warning to Lincoln about plot in Baltimore, 172;
charged with safety of Washington, 172;
attempt to reinforce Anderson, 178;
advises evacuation of Sumter, 183;
orders Washington prepared for a siege, 194;
report to President Lincoln, 194, 195;
offers Lee command of seventy-five regiments, 196;
orders Lyon to St. Louis, 202;
loyalty of, 208;
occupies Cairo, Illinois, 210;
military problem before, 210;
plan of campaign 215, 216, 231, 232;
refuses to credit news of defeat at Bull Run, 228, 229;
welcomes McClellan to Washington, 250;
quarrel with McClellan, 251, 252;
retirement of, 251-253;
rank as lieutenant-general, 393;
attends Lincoln's funeral in New York, 547

Seaton, William W., mayor of Washington approves
Lincoln's bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia, 87

Secession, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas join the movement, 175, 176;
action of central cabal, 177;
sentiment in Maryland, 193, 194;
Virginia passes ordinance of, 194;
Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas join the movement, 200;
sentiment in Delaware, 201;
in Kentucky, 201;
in Missouri, 201-204;
numerical strength of, 204. See Confederate States of America

Seddon, James A., member of Congress, Confederate
Secretary of War, resignation of, 501

Sedgwick, John, major-general United States Volunteers,
crosses Rappahannock and takes Fredericksburg, 368, 369

Seven Days' Battles, 302, 306, 307

Seward, Augustus H., brevet colonel United States army,
stabbed by Powell, alias Payne, 541

Seward, Frederick W., Assistant Secretary of State,
visits Lincoln in Philadelphia, 172;
wounded by Powell, alias, Payne, 540, 541

Seward, William H., United States senator, Secretary of State,
desires reëlection of Douglas to United States Senate, 125;
candidate for presidential nomination 1860, 144;
votes for, in Chicago convention, 149-151;
accepts cabinet appointment, 163;
transmits offers of cabinet appointments, 164;
suggestions to Lincoln about journey to Washington, 168;
warning to Lincoln about plot in Baltimore, 172, 173;
meets Lincoln at railway station in Washington, 174;
appointed Secretary of State, 182;
reply to Confederate commissioners, 183;
reply to Judge Campbell, 183;
memorandum of April 1 1861, 184-187;
opinion of Lincoln, 187;
despatch of May 21, 211;
friendship for Lord Lyons, 247;
despatch in Trent affair, 249;
at gathering of officials to discuss news of Monitor
and Merrimac, 296;
goes to New York with President's letter, 307;
Lincoln tells him of coming emancipation proclamation, 332;
suggests postponement of emancipation proclamation, 332;
attitude toward the French in Mexico, 451, 452;
agrees with President against making proffers of peace to Davis, 463;
proclaims ratification of Thirteenth Amendment, 475;
goes to Hampton Roads, 483;
relations with Montgomery Blair, 488;
plot to murder, 535;
attacked by Powell, alias Payne, 540, 541

Seymour, Horatio, governor of New York, opposition to the draft, 355-357;
correspondence with Lincoln, 356;
notifies McClellan of his nomination, 468

Shepley, G.F., brigadier-general United States Volunteers,
military governor of Louisiana, orders election
for members of Congress, 422;
orders registration of loyal voters, 422, 423

Sheridan, Philip H., lieutenant-general, general-in-chief,
United States army, operations in Shenandoah valley, 403, 404;
succeeds McClellan, 470;
in Shenandoah valley, 502;
reaches City Point, 506;
advance to Five Forks, 507;
reports situation to Grant, 507;
battle of Five Forks, 508;
ordered to get on Lee's line of retreat, 509, 510;
despatch to Grant, 511;
captures Appomattox Station, 512;
despatch to Grant, 512

Sherman, John, member of Congress, Secretary of the Treasury,
United States senator,
candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, 141

Sherman, William Tecumseh, lieutenant-general,
general-in-chief United States army, sent to Nashville, 254;
succeeds Anderson, 254;
interview with Cameron, 255;
asks to be relieved, 255;
in operations about Vicksburg, 381, 382;
reaches Chattanooga, 389;
in battle of Chattanooga, 390, 391;
conference with Grant, 395;
master in the West, 395;
Meridian campaign, 405, 406;
concentrates troops at Chattanooga, 406;
march on Atlanta, 408, 468;
truce with Hood, 408;
divides his army, 409;
march to the sea, 410-412;
telegram to President Lincoln, 412;
proposes to march through the Carolinas, 414;
from Savannah to Goldsboro, 414-417;
visit to Grant, 417;
march northward, 502;
visit to Lincoln and Grant, 506;
admiration for Grant and respect for Lee, 520;
enters Raleigh, 521;
receives communication from Johnston, 521;
meetings with Johnston, 521, 522;
agreement between them, 522;
agreement disapproved at Washington, 523;
report to Grant, 523, 524;
receives Johnston's surrender, 524;
effect of his march through the South, 524;
sent against E. Kirby Smith, 526;
soldiers of, in grand review, 528

Shields, James, United States senator, brigadier-general
United States Volunteers, at Springfield, Illinois, 52;
auditor of Illinois, 65;
challenges Lincoln to a duel, 66-68;
ordered to form junction with McDowell and Frémont, 306

Short, James, buys Lincoln's surveying instruments
and restores them to him, 36

Simpson, M., Bishop of the Methodist Church,
oration at Lincoln's funeral, 548

Slavery, agitation in Illinois, 45, 46;
Lincoln-Stone protest, 47;
Lincoln's bill to abolish, in District of Columbia, 85-87;
repeal of Missouri Compromise, 94, 95;
Peoria debate of Lincoln and Douglas, 96-98;
Lincoln's Chicago banquet speech, 106, 107;
Dred Scott case, 108-112;
pro-slavery reaction, 113;
slavery agitation in Kansas, 113-117;
Lincoln's "House divided against itself" speech, 119, 120, 127, 128;
Lincoln-Douglas joint debate, 121-125;
John Brown raid, 134, 135;
Lincoln's speeches in Kansas and the East, 136-140;
pro-slavery demands of Democratic leaders, 141, 142;
attitude of political parties upon, in 1860, 152, 153;
"corner-stone" theory of the Confederate States, 179;
dream of the conspirators, 197, 204;
dread of slave insurrections in the South, 220, 221;
action of Union commanders about, 220-223;
Frémont's proclamation, 236-238;
Lincoln to Browning about Frémont's proclamation, 238-240;
President's interview with border State delegations, 257, 258, 324, 325;
references to, in Cameron's report, 320;
in Lincoln's message of December 3 1861, 321, 322;
Delaware offered compensated abolishment, 322, 323;
Lincoln's special message to Congress, March 6 1862, 323, 324;
President's letter to McDougall, 324;
Congress passes bill for compensated emancipation
in District of Columbia, 325, 326;
bill in Congress to aid emancipation in Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, 326;
Lincoln revokes Hunter's order, 327, 328;
measures relating to, in Congress 1862, 329;
President's second interview with border State delegations, 329-331;
Lincoln reads first draft of emancipation proclamation to cabinet, 331, 332;
President's interview with Chicago clergymen, 337-339;
President issues preliminary emancipation proclamation, 339-341;
annual message of December 1 1862, on, 341, 342;
President issues final emancipation proclamation, 342-346;
President's views on, 346, 347;
arming of negro soldiers, 348-350;
instructions from War Department about slaves, 349;
contest over slavery clause in new Louisiana constitution, 423;
slavery abolished in Louisiana, 426;
abolished in Arkansas, 427;
abolished in Tennessee, 429;
abolished in Missouri, 434;
abolished in Maryland, 435, 436;
attitude of Democratic party on, 437, 438;
Republican national platform favors constitutional
amendment abolishing, 446;
fugitive-slave law repealed, 457;
constitutional amendment prohibiting, in United States, 471-476;
public opinion on, in certain States, 473;
two constitutional amendments offered during Lincoln's term, 475, 476;
Lincoln's draft of joint resolution offering South $400,000,000, 493;
decline in value of slave property in the South, 501;
effect on Lincoln's character, 551.
See Emancipation and Negro soldiers

Slidell, John, minister to Mexico, United States senator,
Confederate commissioner to Europe, capture of, 246-249;
last instructions from Confederate Secretary of State to, 501, 502

Smith, Caleb B., member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,
judge United States District Court,
appointed Secretary of the Interior, 182;
signs cabinet protest, 311, 312

Smith, E. Kirby, Confederate general,
commands forces west of the Mississippi, 525;
surrender of, 526, 527

Smith, Melancton, rear-admiral United States navy,
at gathering of officials to discuss fight between Monitor
and Merrimac, 296

Smith, William F., brevet major-general United States army,
service at Chattanooga 389

Spain, joint expedition to Mexico, 451

Spangler, Edward, imprisoned for complicity in Booth's plot, 544

Speed, James, Attorney-General, appointed Attorney-General, 491

Speed, Joshua F., intimacy with Lincoln, 53;
Lincoln's letters to, 64, 65, 68;
marriage, 65

Spottsylvania, Virginia, battle of, May 8-19 1864, 398, 399

Springfield, Illinois, its ambition, 26;
first newspaper, 26;
becomes capital of Illinois, 45, 52;
in 1837-39, 53;
revival of business in, 61;
society in, 62;
Lincoln's speech of farewell at, 169;
funeral honors to Lincoln in, 547, 548

Stanley, Edward, member of Congress, appointed military
governor of North Carolina, 420

Stanton, Edwin M., Attorney-General, Secretary of War,
succeeds Cameron as Secretary of War, 289;
his efficiency, 289, 290;
interview with the President, 293, 294;
at gathering of officials to discuss news of Monitor
and Merrimac, 296;
conveys President's reply to McClellan's plan of campaign, 298;
indignation at McClellan, 311;
draws up and signs memorandum of protest against continuing
McClellan in command, 311;
instruction about slaves, 349;
faith in Hooker, 370;
anxiety for Lincoln during Early's raid, 403;
order regulating raising of colored troops, 435;
orders suppression of two New York newspapers and arrest
of their editors, 453, 454;
agrees with President against making proffers of peace to Davis, 463;
sends Halleck's letter to President, 488;
shows Lincoln Grant's despatch transmitting Lee's overtures, 503;
disapproves Sherman's agreement with Johnston, 523;
at Lincoln's death-bed, 540

Star of the West, merchant vessel, unsuccessful attempt
to reinforce Fort Sumter, 178

Steele, Frederick, brevet major-general United States army,
marches from Helena to Little Rock, Arkansas, 427;
assists reconstruction in Arkansas, 427

Stephens, Alexander H.; member of Congress,
Confederate Vice-President, correspondence with Lincoln, 165, 166;
elected Vice-President Confederate States of America, 179;
"corner-stone" theory, 179;
signs military league, 197;
appointed peace commissioner, 482;
at Hampton Roads conference, 482-485

Stevens, Thaddeus, member of Congress, criticism of joint
resolution offering compensated emancipation, 325

St. Lawrence, the, in fight between Monitor
and Merrimac, 280

Stone, Charles P., brigadier-general United States Volunteers,
report about danger to Lincoln in Baltimore, 172, 173

Stone, Dan, member of Illinois legislature,
protest with Lincoln against resolutions on slavery, 47

Stone, Dr. Robert K., at Lincoln's death-bed, 539, 540

Stringham, Silas H., rear-admiral United States navy,
commands Hatteras expedition, 245

Stuart, John T., major Illinois Volunteers, member of Congress,
reënlists as private in Black Hawk War, 33;
elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34;
reëlected in 1834, 43;
encourages Lincoln to study law, 44;
at Springfield, Illinois, 52;
elected to Congress, 69, 70

Surratt, John H., in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;
deposits arms in tavern at Surrattsville, 536;
escape to Canada, subsequent capture and trial, 544

Surratt, Mrs. Mary E., in conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 534;
visits tavern at Surrattsville, 536;
fate of, 541, 542, 544

Swaney, teacher of President Lincoln, 12

Swett, Leonard, favors Holt for Vice-President, 448


Taney, Roger B., chief justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, opinion in Dred Scott case, 109;
action in Merryman case, 199, 200;
death of, 490

Taylor, E.D., elected to Illinois legislature in 1832, 34

Taylor, Richard, Confederate lieutenant-general,
surrenders to Canby, 525, 527

Taylor, Zachary, twelfth President of the United States,
nominated for President, 80, 81;
elected President, 87

Tennessee, the, Confederate ram, in battle of Mobile Bay, 525

Tennessee, State of, joins Confederacy, 200, 204;
military governor appointed for, 419;
secession usurpation in, 420;
delay of reconstruction in, 428;
organization of State government and abolishment of slavery, 429;
public opinion in, regarding slavery, 473;
ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

Terry, Alfred H., brevet major-general United States army,
communicates with Sherman, 416

Texas, State of, ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 475

Thatcher, Henry K., rear-admiral United States navy,
receives surrender of Farrand, 525

Thirteenth Amendment, joint resolution proposing, 471-475;
ratification of, 475

Thomas, George H., major-general United States army,
ordered to oppose Zollicoffer, 254;
victory over Zollicoffer, 265;
at battle of Chickamauga, 387;
succeeds Rosecrans at Chattanooga, 389;
in battle of Chattanooga, 390, 391;
sent by Sherman to defend Tennessee, 409;
Franklin and Nashville, 410;
threatens Confederate communications from Tennessee, 502

Thompson, Jacob, member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,
agent of Confederate government in Canada, 361;
his visionary plans, 361, 362;
account at Montreal Bank, 544

Thompson, Samuel, colonel Illinois Volunteers,
commands regiment in Black Hawk War, 32

Tod, David, minister to Brazil, governor of Ohio,
declines nomination for Secretary of the Treasury, 457

Todd, Mary, see Lincoln, Mary Todd

Totten, Joseph G., brevet major-general United States army,
at gathering of officials to discuss news of fight of Monitor
and Merrimac, 296

Treat, Samuel H., United States district judge,
at Springfield, Illinois, 52

Trent Brothers, buy store of Lincoln and Berry, 36

Trent, the, British mail-steamer, overhauled
by the San Jacinto, 246

Trumbull, Lyman, member of Congress, United States senator,
at Springfield, Illinois, 52;
elected to United States Senate, 1855, 100

Turnham, David, lends Lincoln "Revised Statutes of Indiana," 14


Usher, John P., Secretary of the Treasury, resigns from cabinet, 492


Vallandigham, Clement L., member of Congress,
interview with John Brown, 134;
arrest and banishment of, 358;
head of Knights of Golden Circle, etc., 360, 361;
at Democratic national convention, 467, 468

Van Bergen, sues Lincoln for debt, 36, 41

Vandalia, Illinois, removal of State capital from,
to Springfield, 45, 52

Van Dorn, Earl, Confederate major-general, defeat at Pea Ridge, 271

Varuna, the, sunk in expedition against New Orleans, 285

Vicksburg, Mississippi, fortifications of, 287;