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Best Little Stories from the Civil War: More than 100 true stories

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by C. Brian Kelly


  Spotsylvania, Battle of, 24, 110, 169, 174, 178, 218, 224, 310

  Sprague, Kate Chase.

  See Chase, Kate

  Sprague, William, 129–130

  Springfield, Illinois, 17, 59, 254, 284, 285, 287, 290, 291, 308

  Spring Hill, Tennessee, 197

  St. John’s Island, 180

  St. Louis, Missouri, 59, 63, 80, 190, 233, 287

  Stahel, Julius, 128, 151

  Stanley, David S., 201

  Stanton, Edwin, 121, 122, 125, 134, 148, 176

  Star of the West, 10–11, 24

  Statistics, 62–64, 122, 164–165, 186–187, 252

  Stephens, Alexander H., 9, 17, 21, 40, 41, 194

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 246

  Stiles, Robert, 226–227

  Stoddard, William, 299

  Stokes, Frank, 159

  Stoneman, George, 69, 173

  Stones River, Battle of, 113–114, 116–120, 198

  Stonewall Brigade, 252

  Stowe, Frederick, 158

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 158

  Stragglers, 75, 152

  Stratford Hall, 141

  Stratton, Charles Sherwood, 305

  Stuart, Flora, 217

  Stuart, J. E. B., 36, 77, 94, 144, 166, 208, 216–217, 237, 310

  Stuart, John Todd, 286, 289

  Submarines, 131

  Sudley Springs, Virginia, 51

  Suffrage, women’s, 301

  Sullivan’s Island, 9

  Sumner, Charles, 6

  Swift, Delia, 146–147

  Switzerland, USS, 127

  T

  Taft, Bud, 303

  Taft, William Howard, 140, 259

  Taliaferro, 236

  Taney, Roger B., 26, 153, 296

  Taneytown, Maryland, 153

  Taylor, Sarah Knox, 238, 267, 268

  Taylor, Zachary, 19, 127, 238, 267, 268, 290

  Tecumseh, 282

  Teel, Travonian, 99

  Tennessee, 62

  Tennessee campaign, 24

  Tennessee River, 73, 80

  Terryville, Connecticut, 247

  Texas, 63

  Texas Brigade, 195

  Third Winchester, 205

  Thirteenth Amendment, 181

  Thomas, George H., 121, 197

  Thompson, Franklin, 147–148

  Tilden, Samuel J., 222

  Todd, Alexander, 239

  Todd, Ann, 280

  Todd, Betsey Humphreys, 280, 288.

  See also Humphreys, Elizabeth

  Todd, David, 239

  Todd, Eliza, 238, 280

  Todd, Elizabeth, 280

  Todd, Elodie, 27

  Todd, Frances, 280, 284, 285

  Todd, George, 239, 279

  Todd, John, 280, 282

  Todd, Levi, 279, 280, 281, 282

  Todd, Robert, 279, 280, 283–284, 289, 291

  Todd, Robert Smith, 238, 280, 282

  Todd, Sam, 239

  Tomb of the Unknowns, 259

  Tompkins, Sally, 135

  “Tom Thumb,” 305

  Toombs, Robert, 29, 30

  Torpedoes, 85, 131

  Townes, Nathaniel W., 68

  Transylvania, 282, 283

  Traveller, 201, 254, 255, 256

  Tubman, Harriet, 149

  Tucker, George, 217, 218

  Tullahoma, Battle of, 173

  Turchin, John Basil, 151

  Turchin, Mrs. John Basil, 151

  Turchininoff, Ivan Vasilosvitch, 151

  Tyler, John, 17, 27, 158

  Tyler, Letitia, 27

  U

  “Uncle Jack,” 108–109

  “Uncle Jim,” 257–259

  “Uncle Jimmy,” 61, 62

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 183

  “Uncle Toney,” 245

  University of Virginia, 105–108, 214–216

  U.S. Sanitary Commission, 86, 87

  V

  Valley City, USS, 133

  Valley Forge, 282

  Valverde, Battle of, 98–100, 309

  Van Lew, Elizabeth, 212

  Verdery, Mary, 69

  Vermont, 63

  Vicksburg, CSA, 126

  Vicksburg, Mississippi, 267

  Vicksburg, siege of, 24, 114, 120, 121, 125, 126, 157, 169, 180, 190, 214, 250, 306, 309, 310

  Vicksburg Wartime Military Park, 192

  Villard, Henry, 48, 53

  Vincennes, USS, 56, 58

  Virginia, 39–42, 62, 252, 260, 261, 290

  Virginia, CSA, 85, 125, 309

  Virginia Central Railroad, 166

  Virginia Convention, 40, 42

  Virginia House of Delegates, 94

  Virginia Military Institute, 40, 114, 140, 310

  Virginia Mourning Her Dead, 140

  Volk, Leonard, 263

  Von Borcke, Heros, 144, 150

  W

  Waite, Morrison R., 223

  Walker, Mary Edwards, 149–150

  Wallace, Frances, 284, 285

  Wallace, Lew, 212

  Wallace, William, 73, 284

  Warm Springs, Virginia, 166, 167

  War of 1812, 282

  Warren, Lavinia, 306

  Warrenton, Virginia, 180

  Warrenton Turnpike, 43, 45, 47

  Washington, Booker T., 235–236

  Washington, D.C., 49, 50, 52, 66–68, 84, 86, 87, 110, 127, 168, 175, 177, 180, 211, 257, 260, 261, 262, 288, 289, 290, 293, 294, 295, 299, 307

  Washington, George, 20, 33, 237, 257, 261, 267, 282

  Washington, Martha Custis, 33, 85

  Washington College, 256

  Washington Monument, 297

  Water Witch, USS, 58

  Watson, Walter, 227

  Watterson, Henry, 26

  Weitzel, Godfrey, 224, 226

  West Point, 33, 37, 38, 58, 173, 195, 205, 214, 218, 237, 238, 268

  West Point, Virginia, 89, 166

  West Virginia, 62

  West Woods, 196

  Wheeling, Ohio, 125

  Whig Party, 170, 283, 289

  White, Luther, 159

  White House, 77, 122, 127, 128, 139, 176, 237, 251, 255, 261, 279, 297–298, 300

  White House Landing, 84, 89

  White Oak Swamp, Battle of, 39, 88

  White’s Station, Virginia, 181

  Wilderness, Battle of the, 110, 174, 175, 176, 218, 224, 310

  Willard’s Hotel, 26, 87, 128, 240, 241, 242, 243, 295

  William P. Clyde, 275

  Williams, Catherine, 230, 231, 232

  Williams, Mrs. Joseph, 231

  Williams, Nancy, 61–62

  Williamsburg, Battle of, 169

  Willis, Nathaniel, 301

  Wilson, James, 173

  Wilson’s Creek (Missouri), 213

  Winchester, George, 267

  Winchester, Virginia, 211, 222, 252

  Wing, Harry E., 175–176

  Wingate, W. H., 103

  Winston County, Alabama, 75–77

  Wirz, Henry, 181, 212, 247

  Wise, Henry A., 84

  Wise, John, 212

  Wise, O. Jennings, 212

  Wise’s Legion, 213

  Withers, A. C., 231–232

  Witherspoon, Betsey, 102

  Witherspoon, John, 102

  Wolf, Victor, 191

  Wolford, Daniel, 218

  Wollstonecraft, Mary, 284

  Women, 146–151, 284

  Wooapple, Charles A., 98

  Wood, Harriet, 233

  Wood, William S., 300

  Woolfolk, Pichegru, 122

  Wright, David Minton, 104

  Wright, Horatio, 177

  Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 157, 158

  Wythe, George, 20

  Y

  Yates, Richard, 59

  Yellow Tavern, Virginia, 216, 310

  Yorktown, Battle of, 134

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  T. Michael Knasel

  C. BRIAN KELLY, A PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST, is first, the editor and
longtime columnist for Military History magazine. He is also a lecturer in newswriting at the University of Virginia. As a reporter for The Washington Star, he was named 1976 Conservation Communicator of the Year by the National Wildlife Federation; he was also cited for his political reporting by the American Political Science Association and for local reporting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.

  Ingrid Smyer has been a freelance writer and editor, ballet teacher, and civic and political activist. She is a member of the Charlottesville (Va.) Historical Resources Committee and former member of the board for the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

 

 


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