The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Sabine Pass, Texas, Battle of, 372, 414
Sage, Bernard J.: L from, 114; mentioned, 389
St. John, Isaac, 394
St. Johns River, Fla., 34
St. Martin, Jules (sketch, 379), 378
St. Roman, Henri de (ident., 330), 329, 332
St. Roman, Marie S. (ident., 330)
Sale, John B. (sketch, 8:547), 53, 73
Salisbury, N.C., 85, 124
salt: price, 238; saltworks, 48, 173, 254, 369, 370, 389, 400; supply, 5, 26, 46, 113, 344, 361, 384, 387, 396
Saltville, Va., 369, 370, 389, 400
Sanders, ----, 18
Sanders, Anna R.: Davis and, xlii; L to, 214
Sanders, George N., 214, 409, 417
Sanders, John C. C., 336
Sanders, William P. (sketch, 5:132): L to, 417
Satellite, CSS, 354
Savannah, CSS, 18
Savannah, Ga.: defenses, 47, 52, 66, 90, 91, 112, 124-25, 240, 356-57, 360; threatened, 51, 91, 304, 319
Savannah Republican, 147
Saxton, Rufus, 146
Scales, James P., 402
Scales, Joseph W., 117
Schenck, Robert C. (sketch, 2:570), 181
Schroder, J. Henry, & Co., 330
Schroder, Johann H. (ident., 331)
Schroder, John H. W. (ident., 331), 330
Schurz, Carl (sketch, 7:120), 81, 88
Scott, Powhatan G.: L from, 140
Scott, Samuel S., 48
Scott, Sutton S.: E to, 347
Scott, Winfield (sketch, 1:107), 109
secession: Davis on, 418; Toombs and, 401
secret service, 156, 158
Seddon, James A. (sketch, 7:115): annual report, 6-7; appointed secretary of war, 26; bread riot, 146; criticized, 72, 105, 229; Davis reprimands, 63; Johnston and, ix, 61, 88, 189, 218, 226, 232, 239, 249, 252-53, 269; Lee and, 156, 171, 179, 202, 215, 251, 362; on artillery organization, 116, blockade-runners, 179, H. von Borcke, 336, congressional relations, 140, 149, conscription, 6-7, 189, cotton sales, 161, E. Tenn., 368, exemptions, 189, 363, Ga. home guard, 191, I. G. Harris, 322, impressed slaves, 149, provost marshals, 85, slave laborers, 42, 341, strategy, xi, Trans-Miss. affairs, 223, 311, 413; railroads, 310; Raleigh riot, 388; replies for Davis, 26, 66, 293, 298, 323, 348, 355, 372; Richmond defenses, 255, 259; Vicksburg reinforcements, 179; Es to, 42, 92, 136, 159, 179, 191, 215, 322, 336, 340, 355, 375, 397, 402, 403; Es by, 27, 191, 322, 336, 403; Ls to, 3, 63, 139, 160, 181, 255, 362, 383; Ls from, 6-7, 19, 34, 51, 53, 54, 61, 62, 63, 65, 70, 71, 73-74, 85, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96, 100, 103, 112, 114, 116, 120, 134, 139, 140, 149, 150, 158, 159, 161, 204, 215, 218, 232, 239, 246, 255, 259, 264, 268, 349, 369, 394; mentioned, 166, 274, 282, 392. See also War Department
Sedgwick, John, 165, 210
Selma, Ala., shipyard, 74
Selma Dispatch, 393
Selma Reporter, 397
Seminole: L from battalion, 207
Seminole wars (Fla.), 296
Semmes, Thomas J.: Davis and, 419
Senario, Julian, 205
Senate: Davis on, 196; resolutions on cotton sales, 136, 150, 161, furloughed soldiers, 139, Russia, 147, telegraph, 122, trade, 149; secret sessions, 136, 149, 150, 161; Shoup's promotion, 278; veto, 160-61; Ls to, 26, 41, 71, 73, 102, 120, 150, 160-61
Sequestration Act, 62, 73
Sessums, W. C., 111
Settle, John A., 288
Seven Pines, Va., Battle of, 56, 72, 374
Seward, William H. (sketch, 4:46), 284, 347, 370
Sexton, Franklin B.: Davis and, xli; L from, 51
Sharkey, William L. (sketch, 2:157), 364
Sharp, Thomas R., 39
Sharps rifles, 151
Shelby, Joseph O., 45
Shenandoah Valley, Va., 24, 39, 209, 219, 268
Shepherd, Jesse G.: L from, 281
Shepherd, William S., 388
Sheridan, Philip, 84
Sherman, William T. (sketch, 6): and Davis' papers, 302, 381-82; operations, 4, 78, 168, 200, 271, 289, 292, 304, 309, 412
Shewmake, John T., 346
Shiloh, Tenn., Battle of, 136
Ship Island, Miss., 350
Shirley, James, 365
Shorter, Eli S., xli, 38
Shorter, John Gill (sketch, 8:545): Bragg and, 273, 274; on conscription, 368; praised, 416; Ls to, 41, 188; Ls from, 20, 166, 333; mentioned, 38, 362, 367
Shoup, Francis A. (sketch, 8:364): Davis and, 277, 278
Shreveport, La.: manufacturing, 173, 221, 381; Trans-Miss. headquarters, 221
Sibley, Henry H. (sketch, 8:84): L from, 205
Sickles, Daniel E., 325
Sigel, Franz (sketch, 81), 79, 87, 125
Signal Corps, 149, 156, 211
Sill, Joshua W., 3
Sims, Frederick W., 293
slavery: abolition sentiment, 144; Biblical defense, 369; Davis on, 21; war and, 319
slaves: Ala., 359; arming, 340, 407; army use as cooks, 395, drivers, 275, laborers, xii, 55, 58, 105, 114, 283, 339-40, 349, 364, (Va.), 34, 41-42, 47, 52, 54, 61, 73-74, 89, 90, 100, 103, 105, 349, nurses, 315, 393, 395, soldiers, 293, 304, 312-13, 333, 340, 374; Fla., 20, 65, 143-44, 189, 320, 364; Ga., 97; impressed, vi, 35, 100-101, 149, 158, 340; insurrection rumors, 65, 186, (Davis), 13, 108, 199, 317; Ky., 48; La., 231; medical care (Davis'), 188, 198; Miss., 55, 58, 196, 198, 205, 206-7, 217, 241, 293, 320, 340, 344, 345, 347, 354, 384, 395; runaways, vi, 20, 55, 100-101, 105, 149, 359, 364; U.S. Army and, 146, 198, 200, 205, 207, 217, 231, 263, 300, 304, 320, 344, 364. See also blacks; Davis, Jefferson--servants and slaves
Slidell, John (sketch, 5:7): as commissioner, viii, 102, 153, 258, 321, 371; Erlanger loan, 18, 331; family, 330, 332; Napoleon III and, 332, 333
Slocum, Henry W. (sketch, 81), 79, 410, 411
Small, Nathaniel W.: Ls from, 263, 268
Smedes, William C. (sketch, 5:71), 26
Smith, Andrew J. (sketch, 6:113), 162
Smith, Anna Davis (sister) (sketch, 1:329), 233, 241, 347
Smith, Cotesworth P. (sketch, 135), 135
Smith, Edmund Kirby (sketch, 8:31): assignments, viii, 22, 32, 44, 75, 87, 91, 115, 117, 130, 213, 222, 333, 382; criticized, 229; Davis on, 34, 277, 281, 311, 361; health, 382; Ky. campaign, 29; McCown and, 158; on assignment, 222, generals, 413, Holmes, 221, U.S. operations, 159, 412; powers (Davis), 289, 309; praised, 6, 187, 324, 366; recommended, 40, 47; staff, 95, 134, 224; Trans-Miss. finances, 78, 413, headquarters, 173, 221, operations, 205, 223, 233, 246, 295, 412, organization, 221-22, 260, 288; Vicksburg, 223, 254, 276, 354; Ls to, 103, 171-72, 254, 279-80; Ls from, 213, 220-23, 371-72, 382, 412-13; mentioned, 17, 64, 97, 148, 229, 239. See also Trans-Mississippi Department
Smith, Gustavus W. (sketch, 7:306): confers with Randolph (1862), 57; Davis and, xli, 27, 55-56, 58, 72-73, 85, 366; health, 40, 56, 72; N.C. operations, 20, 24, 27, 47; rank, 27, 55- 56, 72; resigns, 58; L from, 72-73
Smith, James A., 368
Smith, James P. (sketch, 135), 64, 135
Smith, Joseph Davis (nephew), 241
Smith, Larkin, 232
Smith, Leon, 70
Smith, Martin L. (sketch, 7:363): L to, 69; L from, 71; mentioned, 17, 42
Smith, William, 336, 362
Smith, William F., 81
Snapp, Phillip B.: L from, 238-39
Solitude plantation, 242
Solomon, Charley (slave), 345
Soule, Pierre (sketch, 4:125), 408
South Carolina: and captured black soldiers, 355; conscription, 52, 53, 125, 286, 394, (Davis), 297; crops, 70; deserters, 319; disaffection (Davis), 389; slaves as laborers, 283; U.S. troops in, 266
South Carolina and Georgia, Department of. See Beauregard, P. G. T.
South Carolina troops: 1st Infantry, 120; 3d Infantry, 153; 5th Infantry, 250; 1st Reserve Corps, 52, 54, 70, 71; 4th Reserve Corps, 70, 71; 10th Reserve Corps, 70, 71; artillery company, 349; consolidation, 125; militia, 53, 54, 70, 71, 73, 74, 263, 270, 285, 297, 338; L from officers, 85
Southern Historical Society, 5, 209
Southern Railroad (Miss.), 26, 99
Spain, 99, 284, 330
Sparrow, Edward: army bill, 109; Davis and, 419; report by, 35; Ls to, 34, 51
Spaulding, George H., 302
Spear, Samuel P. (sketch, 296), 251, 295
speculators/extortioners: Ala., 121-22, 183; Calif., 103; criticized, 91, 141, 333, 348, 378, 393; Davis on, 42-43, 136, 184, 395; Fla., 130, 142-45; Ga., 376; La., 98; Miss., 5, 113, 306-7; Richmond, 415-16; S.C., 283; Texas, 184; Trans-Miss., 34, 42-43, 45, 222, 412; Va., 92, 355
Spence, E. B., 418
Spence, James M. (sketch, 8:582), 330
Spencer, H. L.: L from, 35
spies, 24, 141, 156, 211, 219, 261, 285-86, (U.S.), 211, 312, 391
Spilman, Edward M.: L from, 74
Stafford County, Va., 23
Stamps, Isaac Davis (nephew) (sketch, 5:135): Davis and, 346; death, 235; mentioned, 162
Stamps, Mary Humphreys (niece-in-law) (sketch, 5:135): travels to Richmond, 233; L from, 346
Stamps, William (brother-in-law) (sketch, 1:275), 233, 241, 324
Stanton, Edwin M. (sketch, 8:311), 84, 261
Starke, Peter B. (sketch, 2:198): Ls from, 171, 180
State Department estimates, 122. See also Benjamin, Judah P.
state rights: Davis on, 161, 418; Stephens on, 215
Steele, Frederick (sketch, 413), 372, 412
Steele, William (sketch, 132), 131, 221, 371
Steele's Bayou, Miss., 68
Stephens, Alexander H. (sketch, 4:50): criticized, 284; Davis and, xlii, xliii; missions to Washington (1861), 215, (1863), 244-45, 254, 268; travels to Richmond, 150, 229, 232; Ls to, 229, 254, 362, 395; Ls from, 41, 150, 184, 215, 232-33, 268, 373; mentioned, 250, 414
Stevens, Clement H., 61
Stevenson, Carter L. (sketch, 8:333): assignments, 18, 138, 313; Miss. operations, 30, 99, 105, 112, 113, 116, 196, 200, 286
Stevenson, John D., 162
Stewart, Alexander P., 148-49, 158, 196
Stockdale, Thomas R., 320
Stockton, Philip, 199
Stoess, Margaret Howell (sister-in-law) (sketch, 2:248), 115
Stoneman, George (sketch, 156): operations, 105, 155, 159, 168, 170-71, 191; troop strength, 150
Stones River, Tenn., Battle of: Bragg's reports, 3, 9, 33, 72, 73; casualties, 18, 30; Davis on, 8, 12; Johnston on, 59; Polk's report, 119; retreat, 9, 28
Stono River, S.C., 139, 140
Streight, Abel D., 176, 191, 273
Stringer, Levi N.: L from, 98
Stringfellow, Charles S. (sketch, 399), 398, 403
Stuart, J. E. B. (sketch, 7:243): Chancellorsville, 164; criticized, 213; Gettysburg campaign, 261, 263; W. E. Jones and, 157-58; Lee and, 53, 403; on U.S. operations, 147, 155; operations, 148, 159, 161, 169, 230, 232, 238, 384; troop strength, 150, 384, 386; E by, 27; L from, 336; mentioned, 82, 83, 193, 316
Stuart, Richard, 149
Stump, George W. (sketch, 84), 79
Sturdivant, Matthew, 20
Sturdivant, Willis: L from, 20
subsistence. See Commissary Department
Suffolk, Va.: threatened, 62, 85, 295, 308; U.S. evacuates, 232, 245, 263
Sumner, Edwin V. (sketch, 1:294), 81
supreme court, 3, 219
Susquehanna River, 261
Swan, William G.: Ls from, 52, 54
Sykes, William A. (sketch, 175): L to, 173-75

Taliaferro, William B., 112, 242
Tallahatchie River, Miss., 67, 96, 110, 112
Tansill, Robert, 369
Tappan, James C. (sketch, 7:402), 42, 44, 223
Tate, George W.: L from, 252
taxes: CSA, vii, 114, 184, 222, 380, 397; Davis on, 21, 96; state, 78, 324; suggested, 16, 91, 353; tax in kind, 183, 232
Taylor, J. M.: L from, 333
Taylor, J. W. S.: L to, 342-43
Taylor, Nannie, 343
Taylor, Octavia P.: L from, 73
Taylor, Richard (sketch, 1:408): Davis on, 270, 389; La. operations, 173, 222, 265, 268, 270, 315, 414; New Orleans plan, 68; on clothing bureau, 224, J. M. Hawes, 360; reports by, 45, 96, 270; troop strength, 371, 412; mentioned, ix, 35, 354, 408
Taylor, Sereno: L from, 99
Taylor, Thomas B.: L from, 212
Taylor, Thomas H.: Ls from, 65, 415; mentioned, 199, 304, 306
Taylor, Walter H., 338
Taylor, William H. S.: L from, 359
Taylor, Zachary (sketch, 1:250): L from, 417; mentioned, 302
telegraph: censorship, 30; construction, 122; deciphering, 106, 185, 186-87, 289, 294, 311, 361, 409, 415, (Davis), 411; estimate, 122, 159; ownership of, 72, 73
Tennessee: conscription, 27, 33, 60, 89-90, 199, 273, 276, 335; operations, ix-x, xii, 3, 16, 17, 18, 28-30, 37-38, 114, 137-38, 273, 305-6, 326, 352, 369, 370, 375, 376, 396, 404-5, 410, (Davis), 8, 9, 12, 18, 37, 247, 397-99, 410-11, 415; railroads, 286, 288, 303, 312, 376, 400, 410, 414; strategy, 33, 72, 86, 116, 141, 187, 188, 246, 272-73, 335, 336, 396, 401, 414, (Davis), 26, 30, 101, 106, 116, 129, 130, 226, 231, 240, 282, 367, 369, 374, 375, 380, 383-84, 390-91, 394; U.S. operations, 3, 17, 18, 27, 28-29, 59, 113, 116, 130, 137, 216, 219, 243, 350, 369, 373, 375, 380, 390-91, 393-94, 401, 402, 403, 407, 409, 410, 411, 414; Ls from citizens, 199, congressmen, 151. See also Army of Tennessee; East Tennessee
Tennessee, Department of. See Bragg, Braxton
Tennessee troops: 1st Cavalry, 400; 12th Cavalry, 349; 1st Infantry, 296; 2d Infantry, 356, 368; 7th Infantry, 38, 296; 14th Infantry, 296; 21st Infantry, 356, 368; 38th Infantry, 358; 40th Infantry, 133; 154th Senior Infantry, 335; consolidation, 356, 368; deserters, 349; furloughed, 310; militia, 373; organization (Davis), 359; recruiting, 349, (Davis), 202, 295
Tennessee troops (U.S.): 6th Cavalry, 335
Tensas River, La., 71, 76
Texas: cattle trade, 184-85; clothing manufacture, 69; conscription, 22, 94, 275; defenses, 16, 138, 184; disaffection, 46, 93-94; finances, 153, 279; food supplies, 184, 275; Indian incursions, 115; martial law, 93; munitions, 173, 275, 372; politics, 93; threatened, 412; trade, vii
Texas troops: 1st Cavalry, 51; 7th Cavalry, 132, 5th Infantry, 139, 194; Texas Rangers, 115; commanders, 51; Hispanic, 95; militia, 275; strength, 172; L from officers, 51
Texas troops (U.S.), 95
Thayer, Eli, 145
Thomas, Edward L., 316
Thomas, William H. (ident., 224), 222
Thomas Freeborn, USS, 83
Thompson, David H., 415
Thompson, Waddy (sketch, 2:402): L to, 417
Thorburn, Charles E., 263
tobacco: production, 97, 136, 145, 184; trade, 144, 179
Tochman, Gaspar: L from, 397
Todd, Robert S.: L from, 17
Tombigbee River defenses, 74
Toombs, Robert (sketch, 4:236): criticized, 362; Davis and, 380, 401; mentioned, 346
torpedoes, 70, 75, 190, 205, 399
Tower muskets, 373
Tracy, Edward D., 161
Trans-Mississippi Department: administration, 221-22; clothing supplies, 69, 222, 289; commander, viii-ix, 94, 324, (Davis), 75; communications, 171, 213, 220, 221, 288-89, 311, 360; conditions, 36, 42, 46, 47, 70, 131, 220, 275, 278, 280, (Davis), 76, 279; conscription, 222; cotton trade, 149, 253; Davis on, 115, 125, 172, 276, 281, 309; disaffection, 279, 281, (Davis), 309; finances, 76, 412-13; food supplies, 91, 131, 211, 222, 275; governors' conference, 311; headquarters, 221; home guard, 372; Indians, 279; inspector, 403; manufacturing (Davis), 276-77; morale, 372, 412, (army), 280, 324; mules, 89; munitions, 131-32, 148, 221, 290, 371-72, 412, (Davis), 172, 276; organization (Davis), 75, 333, (Smith), 288, 382; recruiting, 45, 220; reinforcements to Miss., 43, 172, 354; strategy, 229, 246, (Davis), 279-80, 389, criticized, 342; and Treasury, 78, 222, 382, 412-13, (Davis), 289; troop strength, 173, 221, 371, 412; U.S. operations, 371, 412. See also specific states; Holmes, Theophilus H.; Smith, Edmund Kirby
Treasury Department: agent abroad, 330; bonds, 91, 253, 279, 370; claims, 58, 85; clerks, 254, 336; cotton purchases and trade, 98, 253; counterfeiting, 38, 50, 219, 275, 320; currency, 7, 114, 253, 306, 322, 362, 370, 389; estimates, 154; female employees, 73; office schedule, 336, space, 154; and Post Office, 253, 268, 305, 322-23, 352; Trans-Miss., 78, 222, 382, 412-13, (Davis), 289. See also Memminger, Christopher G.
Trent affair, 257
Trimble, Isaac R., 165, 171, 260
Tucker, John R., 304, 321
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley (sketch, 8:110): L from, 282
Tullahoma, Tenn., 98, 141, 169, 273, 274, 288
Tupper, Tullius C. (sketch, 8:354): L from, 103; mentioned, 95
Turley, E. W.: L from, 176
Turner, Washington: L from, 17
Tyler, John (sketch, 2:133), 35
Tyler, Robert, 73

unionism. See disaffection; reconstruction (reunion)
United Confederate Veterans, 278
United States: call for troops, 6, 82, 243; claim for vessel, 99; conscription, 79, 389, 396; cotton trade, 160, 165, 329, 339, 402, (Davis), 177-78; Davis on, 8, 11, 12, 13, 21, 277, 317; Democrats, 15, 220; election of 1862, 15; patronage, 246; peace sentiment, 10, 213, 243; plots against, 285-86, 347; religious persecution, 348; spies, 211, 312, 391. See also Lincoln, Abraham
United States Army: 5th Colored Heavy Artillery, 234; 49th Colored Infantry, 234; 51st Colored Infantry, 234; 63d Colored Infantry, 234; I Corps, 81; II Corps, 81; III Corps, 81; V Corps, 81; VI Corps, 81; IX Corps, 63, 81, 82, 116, 122, 126, 219, 352; XI Corps, 81, 88, 352, 354, 385, 410, 411, 416; XII Corps, 81, 354, 410, 411, 416; XIII Corps, 414; XIX Corps, 81, 414; XXIII Corps, 219; Depts. of the East, 297, Fla., 84, the Gulf, 172, 210, N.C., 84, the Ohio, 82, 84, 125, the South, 84, Va., 297, Washington, 245; artillery, 16, 30, 77, 147, 160, 171, 189, 198, 203, 205, 208, 211, 219, 230, 271, 272, 280, 283, 292, 295, 298, 307, 348, 350, 385, 398; black troops, 112, 152, 233, 237, 293, 304, 307, 322, 355, 397, praised, 289; casualties at Gettysburg, 260, Stones River, 33; cavalry, 16, 27, 32, 39, 45, 81, 126, 147, 150, 155, 156-57, 159, 160, 162, 166-67, 168, 170, 179, 196, 197, 209, 234, 245, 248, 251, 254, 263, 268, 280, 295, 302, 324, 346, 369, 375, 380, 384, 385, 397, 410; censorship, 23; deserters and stragglers, 74, 111, 117, 126, 139; flags of truce, 32; Grand Divisions, 81-82; "mud march," 24; munitions for, 236, 238, 272, 376; mutiny, 99; prosthetics, 325; recruiting abroad, 315, 348, 414; and slaves, 146, 231, 263, 300, 304, 320, 364, (Davis'), 198, 200, 205, 207, 217, 344; strength in Ark., 412, at Ark. Post, 45, Baton Rouge, 38, 99, 148, Chancellorsville, 167, Charleston, 139, Culpeper, 384, in E. Tenn., 400, at Fredericksburg, 24, 211, in La., 38, 79, 148, 414, Miss., 99, 161, 188, 196, N.C., 17, 25, at Stones River, 30, in Tenn., 88, Trans-Miss., 371, 412, at Vicksburg, 12, 190, in Va., 148, 155, 170, 209, 232, 245, 250, 268, 313, 415; substitutes, 82. See also specific commanders and locales
United States Ford, Va., 79
United States Military Academy: alumni, 5, 6, 30, 81, 82, 83, 84, 128, 132, 133, 156, 157, 209, 210, 223, 238, 262, 297, 302, 323, 386, 400, 413; Davis and, 380, 401; Davis' report on (1860), 216
United States Navy: Ark. Post, 45; Charleston, 139; coastal operations, 236; Davis on, 110; ironclads, 91, 100; Miss. River, 99, 100, 101, 104, 105, 148, 149, 167
Upshur, Annie A.: L from, 39
Urquhart, David (sketch, 31), 18, 28
Urquhart, Thomas H.: Ls from, 41-42, 52

Vallandigham, Clement L., 204, 211, 244, 253
Van Benthuysen, Joseph D. (sketch, 8:160), 377
Van Benthuysen, Mary, 395
Van Benthuysen, Thomas P.: L from, 263
Van Buren, Ark., raid, 132
Vance, Robert B., 84
Vance, Zebulon B. (sketch, 8:477): and conscription, 8, 121, 193, 255, 269-70; Davis and, xliii, 8, 288, 312, 351; and N.C. politics, 281, 306; on appointments, 263, Raleigh riot, 381, 382, 388; and Raleigh Standard, 306, 351; Ls to, 22, 187, 199, 255, 271, 280, 288, 304, 312, 348, 351, 359, 381, 388; Ls from, 48, 92, 121, 139, 186, 255, 263, 269-70, 306, 360, 381, 382, 389; mentioned, 17, 369, 376, 389
Van Dorn, Earl (sketch, 7:306): assignments, 33, 46, 59, (Davis), 174; court of inquiry, 148; Davis on, 148, 167; death, 171, 180; operations, 4, 137, 167; rank (Davis), 55; staff, 5, 133; L to, 26; Ls from, 25-26, 148; mentioned, 6, 35, 169, 274
Van Pelt, Andrew J.: L from, 92
Vaughn, John C. (sketch, 7:209): L from, 359; mentioned, 5
Venable, Charles S., 338
Vermont cavalry, 126
Vicksburg, Miss.: artillery, 10, 47, 63, 90, 96, 99, 101, 104, 105, 149, 174, 185, 298; canals, 59-60, 69, 78, 88, 99, 100; casualties, 197, 198, 275, 284; court of inquiry, 312, 334, 341, 347, 353, 357-58, 378; Davis on capture of, 264, 269, 270, 281, 290-91, 308, 311, 357-58, importance of, 43-44, 67-68, 125, 166, 168, 169, 187-88, 200, 231, 239, 247, 304-5; defenses, 71, 117, 141, 148, 155, 165, 197, 207, 216, 233, 240-41, 244, 354, (Davis), viii, x-xi, 10, 47, 67- 68, 96, 101, 104, 150-51, 172, 174, 183, 186, 189, 192, 200, 203, 205, 239, 240, 254, 265, 354, (Johnston), xi, 4-5, 59-60, 68, 88, 187, 188, 189-90, 203, 209, 216, 224, 226, 228, 234, 239, 240, 242, 247, 264-65, 268, 269, 275, 280, 314, 325, (Pemberton), 10, 63, 99-100, 101, 104, 105, 112, 115, 116, 130, 138, 149, 158, 161, 162-63, 164, 181-82, 185; effects of capture, 241, 320-21, 331, 365, 396; garrison morale, 116-17, 217, strength, 101, 196, 204; invested, 186, 188, 189, 196; Pemberton's report, 168, 306, 312, 313-14; prisoners, 269, 270, 275, 284, 307, 324, 336, 341, 351, 359, 380, (Davis), 269, 271, 279, 283, 288, 293, 307, 341, 342, 349; provisions, 4, 222, 233, 284, 297, 325, 380, (Davis), 123, 292; reinforcements for, ix, 4, 63, 104, 130, 179, 180, 181-82, 185, 188, 197, 203, 205, 209, 216, 222, 230, 235, 240, 246, (Davis), 43-44, 161, 166, 168-69, 174, 181, 185, 186, 187-88, 189, 197, 198-99, 206, 215-16, 231, 239, 240, 247, 254, 354, 374; U.S. garrison, 311-12, 346-47, 410, reinforcements, 205, 216, 219, 232, 245
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad raid (1862), 45
Victoria, Queen, 257
Villepigue, John B. (sketch, 8:514), 274
"Vindicus" article, 306, 314, 342
Virginia: conditions, 48, 179, 184, 197; conscription, 88, 398; court system, 114; crops, 88, 179, 184; Davis praises, 11, 14; disaffection, 48; martial law, 114; military dept., 47-48, 69; prices, 91, 238, 355, 389-90; railroad control, 113; slaves as laborers, 34, 41-42, 47, 52, 54, 61, 73-74, 89, 90, 100, 103, 105, 349; U.S. operations, 62, 99, 141, 179, 184, 207, 211, 232, 263, 268, (Davis), 12, 17, 160, 166-67, 192, 207, 230, 232, 295, (Lee), 23-24, 35-36, 39, 63, 79-80, 105, 126, 147, 159-60, 161, 162, 163, 165, 171, 208-9, 210-11, 212, 219, 230-31, 232, 313, 316, 317, 382, 385, 396, strategy, 52, 74, 229, 312, (Davis), 36-37, 63, 68, 112, 248-49, 318, 397-98, (Lee), 35-36, 66, 78-80, 125, 147-48, 155, 180, 199, 208-9, 212, 219, 231, 236-37, 238, 243-44, 245, 266, 284, 304, 352, 354, 385-86, 394, 396, 397, 410, 416; Ls from citizens, 88, 179, 355, 389-90
Virginia, CSS, 156, 418
Virginia and North Carolina, Department of. See Hill, Daniel H.; Longstreet, James
Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, 240, 312, 410
Virginia Central Railroad, 34, 105, 170, 248
Virginia Military Institute: alumnus, 242; Davis on, 216
Virginia Resolutions (1798): Davis on, 11-12
Virginia troops: Black Horse Cavalry, 82; 1st Cavalry, 83, 157; 2d Cavalry, 83; 3d Cavalry, 83; 4th Cavalry, 82; 7th Cavalry, 157; 18th Cavalry, 83, 84; 7th Infantry, 262; 17th Infantry, 250; 54th Infantry, 85; 57th Infantry, 262; McNeill's Rangers, 83-84; 62d Mounted Infantry, 83, 84; deserters, 347; militia, 238-39, 285, 317, 347, 392, 398; L from officers, 85
Vizetelly, Frank, 284
Vose, Israel G.: recommended, 347; L from, 47

Wade, William B. (sketch, 3:43), 121, 154
Wadley, William M.: on railroads, 114; mentioned, 105, 113
Walker, ----, Col., 255
Walker, David: Davis and, xlii, 108; mentioned, 70
Walker, James D. (sketch, 108), 106
Walker, John G.: report by, 359-60; Vicksburg, 222, 354
Walker, Lucius M. (sketch, 133), 131, 133, 280
Walker, Tandy: L from, 239
Walker, William (sketch, 5:65), 360
Walker, William H. T.: promoted, 188, 196, 199; recommended, 186, 188; mentioned, 51, 367, 376
Walker, William S., 112
Wall, Frances S.: L from, 306-7
Wall, Henry H.: L from, 165
Wallace, Alexander M., 109
Wallace, Campbell: L from, 286
Wallace, James, 53
Waller, William: L from, 35
Walthall, Edward C., 89, 90
Walthall, Leonidas N. (sketch, 341): L from, 339-40
Walton, James B., 92, 101
Ward, Charley (slave), 345
War Department: annual report, 6-7; claims, 140, 397; criticized, 297, 348-49, 414; estimates and expenses, 19, 139, 159; New Orleans inquiry, 65, 97. See also army; Seddon, James A.
Ware's Point, Va., skirmish, 83
Waring, Joseph F., 6
Wartburg, Tenn., 265
Washburn, James, 84
Washington, D.C.: defenses (Davis), 248, 259, (Lee), 147, 236, 243, 266; and Gettysburg campaign, 259, 261, 267
Washington, George: Davis compared to, 356; mentioned, 203
Washington, James B. (ident., 128), 128
Washington, Thornton A., 69
Washington & New Orleans Telegraph Co., 73
Washington Union: Davis and, 417-18
Watie, Stand (sketch, 133), 131
Watkins, George C. (sketch, 278), 230, 276
Watterson, Henry (sketch, 33), 32
Watts, Thomas H. (sketch, 8:313): annual report, 3; Davis on, 395; opinions on appeal, 219, appointments, 134, 225, Cairo claim, 312, citizenship, 89-90, impressed slaves, 100-101, Post Office funds, 268, volunteer navy, 389; L to, 395; Ls from, 3, 62, 89-90, 100-101, 134, 219, 225, 264, 268, 312, 389; mentioned, 73
Wayne, Henry C. (sketch, 6:95), 51, 61
Weir, John, 136
Weldon, N.C.: defenses (Davis), 308, 399; threatened, 297, 310, 397
Welles, Gideon, 108
Welsh, Israel V.: Ls from, 136, 396-97
West. See Trans-Mississippi Department
West, Absolom M.: L from, 321-22
West, Department of the. See Johnston, Joseph E.
Western & Atlantic Railroad: Bragg and, 101-2, 105, 106, 126, 185; defenses, 190-91, 253; rates, 253, 293
West Point, Va., 192, 201
West Virginia, 83-84, 254, 354, 389
West Virginia troops, 245
Wharton, C. R., 335
Wharton, Gabriel C., 311, 336
Wharton, John A., 375, 384, 411
Wharton, Thomas J. (sketch, 6:137), 197-98, 204
Wheeler, John H. (sketch, 8:237): Davises and, xlii, xliii
Wheeler, John M., 264, 275
Wheeler, Joseph (sketch, 30): Chickamauga, 407; Stones River, 3, 28; Tenn. operations, 38, 274
Whig Party, 292
White, Edward B.: L from, 316
White, Elijah V., 232
White, Elizabeth Bradford (niece): L to, 418
White, George W., 184
White, Maunsel, 418
White, Pleasant W., 361
White House, Va., 248
White River, Ark., defenses (Davis), 75, 389
Whitfield, James (sketch, 175): Davis and, 173, 286; E by, 384; L to, 173-75; L from, 336; mentioned, 154, 159
Whitfield, John F., 364
Whitfield, John W., 51
Whitfield, Lea C.: L to, 364
Whiting, W. H. C. (sketch, 7:58): assignment (Davis), 192; Charleston defenses, 62, 271, 310, (Davis), 50; Lee on, 80; on blockade-runners, 160, 206, 239; Wilmington defenses, 25, 80, 139, 235, 271, 320, 357, 369, 383, (Davis), 308, 390; Ls from, 160, 235; mentioned, 177
Whittle, Lewis N.: L from, 125
Whitworth rifled guns, 348
Wickham, William F. (sketch, 251), 248
Wickham, Williams C. (sketch, 82): recommended, 316-17; L from, 27; mentioned, 79, 251
Wigfall, Louis T. (sketch, 6:342): Davises and, xli, 418; on Davis, 311; L to, 418
Wilcox, Cadmus M.: rank, 365; recommended, 186, 188, 197, 316
Wilcox County, Ala.: L from citizens, 359
Wiley, Calvin H.: L to, 151
Williams, Charles S., 365
Williams, J. Preston: L from, 365-66
Williams, John S.: E. Tenn., 369, 376, 384; on his career, 109; L from, 109
Williams, Joseph R.: L from, 360
Williamsport, Md., 260, 263-64, 267, 268, 269, 270
Wilmington, N.C.: artillery (Davis), 47, 85, 235, 390; blockade-running, 160, 204, 206, 239, 284, 320, (Davis), 177-78; defenses, 62, 304, 348, 362, 369, (Davis), 37, 85, 139, 295, 308, 317, 357, 359, 383, (Lee), 16, 24, 52, 80, 170; shirkers in, 320
Wilmington & Weldon Railroad defenses, 397, 399, (Davis), 247, 308, 359
Wilson, Henry (sketch, 6:14), 82
Winchester, Va.: Battle of, 219; skirmishes, 81; mentioned, 261, 269, 312
Winder, John H. (sketch, 1:94): recommended, 151; mentioned, 108, 250
Wingfield, James H., 252
Wisdom, Dew M.: report by, 335
Wise, Henry A. (sketch, 6:55): assignments (Davis), 207, 381, (Lee), 204-5, 379, 381, 382; operations, 192, (Davis), 248; staff, 242
Withers, Jones M. (sketch, 7:372), 31, 50
Withers, William T., 42
Wofford, William T.: assignment, 361, 383; Lee on, 382, 403, 410
women: apply for work, 73; Davis praises, 12-13, 14, 15, 343, 358; envelope-makers, 182; food riots, viii, 146; on army, 213, 306-7, 374, home front, 46-47, 179, 198, 229, 231, 306- 7, 324, 376, 396; Ls to, 162, 176-77, 191, 214, 286-87, 303-4, 354, 365; Ls from, 26, 39, 46-47, 73, 97, 115-16, 121-22, 127-28, 179, 198, 213, 231, 283-84, 284-85, 289, 306-7, 320, 322, 346, 374, 376, 396
Wood, Fernando, 244
Wood, John Taylor (sketch, 8:190): appointed aide, 41; assignment, 53-54; Davis and, 10, 354; naval operations, 354, 391; L to, 53-53; Ls from, 62, 70, 74, 354
Wood, Lola M. (sketch, 8:190): L to, 354
Woodbury, Daniel P., 24
Woodville, Miss., raids, 347
Work, George (sketch, 2:111), 233
Wren, G. H., 26
Wren, William: L from, 341
Wright, Augustus R.: assignments, 274, 382; L to, 151; Ls from, 150, 343
Wright, David M., 322, 363
Wright, J.: L from, 362
Wright, Moses H., 274
Wyatt, S.: L from, 362

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