Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (192 page)

   on loss of Atlanta,
775

   opposes arming of slaves,
835

   on Lee's endorsement of arming slaves,
837

Richmond Whig
: and 1848 election,
63

   on 1st Manassas,
347

   on British recognition,
388

   criticism of Davis,
428

   criticism of martial law,
434

   on R. E. Lee,
490

   on fight to last ditch,
824

   opposes arming and freeing of slaves,
834

Rifle, development of, and Civil War tactics,
474
–77

Riots: against blacks in North in 1862,
507

   New York draft riots,
609
–11,
686
,
687

   bread riots in Confederacy,
617
–19

Roanoke Island, battle of,
372
–73

Rock, John,
841

Roebuck, John,
651

Roman Catholics,
see
Catholics

Rosecrans, William S.,
813

   in western Virginia,
299
–303

   in Corinth campaign,
416

   battles of Iuka and Corinth,
522
–23

   battle of Stones River,
577
,
579
–83,
645

   Tulla-homa campaign,
646
,
667
–68,
669

   captures Chattanooga,
670

   at Chickamauga,
671
–74

   besieged by Bragg,
675

   relieved of command,
676

Ruffin, Edmund,
208
,
273
,
347
,
665

Russell, Lord John: and question of British recognition of Confederacy,
384
,
388
,
389
,
552

   on blockade,
385

   mediation moves in 1862,
555
–56

   and Laird rams,
682

Sabine Crossroads, battle of,
723

St. Albans (Vt.), raid by rebel agents,
764

St. John, Isaac M.,
320
and n

Saltonstall, Leverett,
265

Sanborn, Franklin B.,
204
,
207

Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de,
3
,
50
,
108

Saunders, Romulus M.,
104

Savage's Station, battle of,
468

Saxton, Rufus,
710
,
842

Sayler's Creek, battle of,
848

Schofield, John M.: in Georgia campaign,
744
,
752
,
754

   and battle of Franklin,
811
–12

Schurz, Carl,
223
,
328

Scott, Dred,
170
,
171
,
174
,
175
,
176
,
202
.
See also Dred Scott v. Sandford

Scott, Thomas,
324

Scott, Winfield: and Mexican War,
3
–4

   presidential candidate,
4
,
59
,
117
–19,
131

   as general in chief, in secession crisis,
249
–50,
266

   and Fort Sumter,
267
–70

   urges Lee to remain loyal,
281

   organizes defense of capital,
285
–86

   and western Virginia,
299

   disabilities of,
313

   opposes dispersal of regulars among volunteer regiments,
327
–28

   "Anaconda Plan" of,
333
–34,
335
,
818

   relations with McClellan,
359
–60

Secession: southern threats of before 1861,
67
–70,
85
,
86
–87,
158
,
165
–67,
178
,
212
,
229
–31

   threat of fulfilled,
234
–35

   as revolution,
237
–41

   weakness of southern unionism,
239
,
255

   correlation of, with slaveholding,
242
,
255
,
283
–84

   and nonslaveholders,
242
–44

   as pre-emptive counterrevolution,
245
–46,
861

   northern response to,
246
–50

   compromise proposals,
250
–54

   upper South rejects,
255

   and upper South states after Sumter,
276
–84

Second Great Awakening,
43

   and abolitionism,
8
,
35
,
88

Seddon, James A.,
646
,
647

   on treatment of captured black soldiers,
566
,
795

   resigns,
821

Sedgwick, John,
542
,
644

Semmes, Raphael,
5
,
314
,
316
,
547

Seneca Falls woman's rights convention,
36

Seven Days' battles,
464
–71,
475
,
477
,
478
,
812

   consequences of,
490
–91,
499
–500,
524
,
655

Seven Pines, battle of,
461
–62,
464
,
477
,
576

Seward, William H.: on education,
29

   indicts slavery,
39

   and 1848 election,
63

   influence with Taylor,
67

   on Compromise of 1850,
70
,
74

   Higher Law speech,
72
–73

   and 1852 election,
117
–18

   and 1854 elections,
126

   and nativism,
131
,
137

   on slavery in Kansas,
145

   in 1856 election,
155
,
160

   on Dred Scott case,
178
–79

   irrepressible conflict speech,
198

   and John Brown,
211
–12

   and 1860 election,
216
–21,
227

   on threats of secession,
230

   on Buchanan and coercion,
248

   on secession,
252
,
253

   and conciliation,
255
–56,
272

   named sec. of state,
260

   and Lincoln's inaugural address,
261
–63

   on Fort Sumter,
268

   April fool's memo,
270
–71

   and McClellan,
364

   warns Britain against recognizing Confederacy,
384
,
388
–89

   and
Trent
crisis,
390
–91

   on internal security,
436

   and the call for troops in 1862,
491

   on the Emancipation Proclamation,
504
,
505

   and European mediation moves,
555

   cabinet crisis of Dec. 1862,
574
–75

   on capture of Atlanta,
775

   at Hampton Roads peace conference,
822
–23

   lobbies for 13th Amendment,
839

Seymour, Horatio,
685

   opposes emancipation,
560
,
592

   opposes conscription,
602
,
609

   and 1864 election,
771

Seymour, Thomas,
771

Shadrach (fugitive slave),
82
–83

Shannon, Wilson,
147
,
148
,
161

Sharpsburg, battle of,
see
Antietam

Shaw, Lemuel,
207

Shaw, Robert Gould,
686
–87

Shenandoah Valley: Jackson's campaign,
425
,
454
–60,
466

   Sigel's campaign,
722
,
724

   Hunter's campaign,
737
–39

   Sheridan's campaign,
777
,
858

   destruction of resources in,
778
,
784
,
848

   battle of Cedar Creek,
779
–81

Shepley, George F.,
703
–4

Sheridan, Philip H.: in Corinth campaign,
416

   battle of Perryville,
519
–20

   at Stones River,
580

   comes east as cavalry commander,
718

   battle of Yellow Tavern,
728
,
731

   at Cold Harbor,
733

   Trevilian Station raid,
737
,
739