Seymour, Horatio:  381, 383-5, 413.

Sigel, General:  394.

Shakespeare:  103, 108, 423, 448.

Shaw, Robert Gould:  330.

Shenandoah Valley; 225, 247, 296, 394, 395-6, 424, 437-8.

Sheridan, Philip, General:  220, 343, 395-6, 424, 437-8, 444.

Sherman, John, Senator:  235, 380.

Sherman, William Tecumseh, General; 52, 220, 224, 249; character and relations with Grant, 348; failure in first attempt on Vicksburg, 350; under McClernand, takes Post of Arkansas, 351; with Grant in rest of Vicksburg campaigns, 353-5; at Chattanooga, 360; at Meridian, 388; parting with Grant, his fears for him, their concerted plans, 389; Atlanta campaign, 394-5, 424; detaches Thomas against Hood, 397-8; from Atlanta to the sea, 397-9; campaigns in the Carolinas, 435-6; meets Lincoln at City Point, 444-5; Lincoln’s dream about him, 449; Johnston’s surrender to him, 452.

Shields, Colonel:  85.

Slave Trade:  how treated by Constitution of U.S.A., 24; prohibition of it in American colonies vetoed, 36; prohibited by several American States, by United Kingdom, and by Union, 38; movement to revive it in Southern States, 145, 150; prohibited by Confederate Constitution and inadequate Bill against it vetoed by J. Davis, 200; treaty between United Kingdom and U.S.A., for its more effectual prevention, and first actual execution of a slave-trader in U.S.A., 317.

Slavery:  compromise about it in Constitution, 25; opinion and action of the “Fathers” in regard to it, 35-9; becomes more firmly rooted in South, 39; disputes as to it temporarily settled by Missouri Compromise, 39-40; its real character in America, 52-5; its political and social effect on the South, 43-5, 55-9; Abolition movement, see Abolition; its increasing influence on Southern policy; see South; repeal of Missouri Compromise, and dicta of Supreme Court in favour of slavery, 109-15; Lincoln’s attitude from first in regard to it, 14, 76, 94; his principles as to it, 121-131, 144; slavery the sole cause of Secession, 178-9; the progress of actual Emancipation, 313-37; already coming to an end in the South before the end of the war, 429, 431. See also Negroes.

Slidell:  263.

Smith, Baldwin, General:  308.

Smith, Caleb:  167, 202, 405.

Smith, Kirby, General:  339-42, 453.

South:  original difference of character and interest between Northern and Southern States becoming more marked concurrently with growth of Union, 17-8, 36, 39-40, 43-5; slavery and Southern society, 52-9; growing power of a Southern policy for slavery to which the North generally is subservient, 91-2, 98-100, 117, 138-41; rise of resistance to this, see Republican Party; causes of Secession and prevailing feeling in South about it, 170-88; history of Secession and War, see Confederacy and War; Southern spirit in the war, 216, 218-20; heroism of struggle, 397; memory of the war a common inheritance to North and South, 455.