Saxton, Rufus, at Port Royal, S.C., 48 Schenkel, Daniel, 211 Schools, in Russia, 116 Sedan, The debacle at, 159 Seward, William H., his Plymouth oration, 13; his too careless cigar, 14; the Alaska purchase, 15 Sheridan, Philip H., 28 Sherman, T.W., at Port Royal, S.C., 50 Sherman, W.T., in private life, 30; at dinner with, 31; and John Fiske, 32; his funeral, 34 Slocum, Henry W., and Samuel J. May, 45 Smith, Goldwin, at Niagara, 191; his memorial stone at Cornell, 192 Stamford, the Earl of, encountered on the Mississippi, 296; as a household guest, 301; a high-born philanthropist, 304 Stevens, Isaac I., 52 Sumner, Charles, his fine presence, 18; as a youth, 19; a conversation with, 21; and John A. Andrew, 24; his strength and weakness, 26 Switzerland, in 1870, 150

  T

  Taft, W.H., in boyhood, 34
  Thoreau, Henry D., in his early time, 235
  “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” 2
  Treitschke, von, at Heidelberg, 205

  U

  Uhlan, the young, of Erfurt, 145
  Union, value of its triumph in the Civil War, 327
  Universities, of Germany, in 1870, 119

  V

  Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia, 139

  W

Webster, Daniel, his last speech in Faneuil Hall, 10; his “big way,” 11; his “Liberty and Union, now and forever,” 12 Weimar, the young grenadier of, 145 West Pointers and civilians in the Civil War, 33 Whitman, Walt, and Emerson, 250 Wilhelm der Grosse, Kaiser, 138 Wilhelm II., Kaiser, 139 Wilson, James H., 49 Winsor, Justin, as youth and man, 167 Winthrop, Robert C., his ability and conservatism, 17; as master of the feast, 18 Wright, H.G., 57