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IKDEX OF CONTEXTS. 



in May, 80 ; result of the December call, 80 ; payment 

 of bounties, 81 ; aggregate quotas charged against the 

 several States, 81 ; number of troops furnished by States, 

 81 ; do. under different calls, 81 ; reCnlistments, 81 ; col- 

 ored troops, 82 ; number In the service, 82 ; applicants 

 for commissions in these organizations, 32 ; order sus- 

 pending drafting and recruiting, 82 ; order reducing ex- 

 penses, 82; proceedings, 88; rapidity of disbanding the 

 army, 88; subsequent organization of the army, 84; 

 another project, 84 ; forces in the service at the close of 

 the year, 84; operations of the Paymaster's Department, 

 85; disbursements, 85; losses, 85; operations of the 

 Quartermaster's Bureau, 35 ; supplies furnished during 

 the year, 85; cavalry horses, 85; record of persons 

 buried, 85; hospitals, 85; sea-coast defences, 86; Ord- 

 nance Department, 86 ; signal corps, 86 ; officers re- 

 tained in the regular army, 86 ; do. volunteer officers, 8T. 

 Army Operations. Continued operations through the win- 

 ter, 88 ; movements of Hood, 88 ; do. of Thomas, 88 ; 

 Bchofleld sent to the Atlantic coast, 88 ; Thomas defends 

 the- country around Atlanta, 88 ; rcconnoissance from 

 Eastport toward Corinth, 88 ; captures, 88 ; deserters, 38 ; 

 Hood's forces march across Georgia to oppose Sher- 

 man, 88. 



No important movement by the Army of the Poto- 

 mac meanwhile, 88 ; call for troops, 88 ; attack on the 

 Federal fleet in the James, 38 ; report, 88 ; marching or" 

 ders issued to the army before Petersburg, 88 ; move- 

 ment by the left, 89 ; cavalry reach Dinwiddie, 89 ; the 

 enemy driven beyond Hatcher's Run, 89 ; rally of the 

 enemy, 89 ; contest which ensued, 40 ; Lee's report, 40 ; 

 losses, 40 ; the advantage finally gained, 40. 



Small expeditions in the Shenandoah valley, 40 ; cap- 

 ture of Gens. Crook and Kelly, 4L 



The present field of decisive operations, 41 ; three 

 States, 41 ; Sherman begins his march through the Caro- 

 linas, 41 ; movements of Gen. Hatch against the Charles- 

 ton and Savannah Railroad, 41 ; movements of Gen. Slo- 

 cum, 41 ; Sherman's instructions to officers, 41 ; advance 

 of his army, 43 ; opposition of Wheeler, 43 ; his letter to 

 Howard, 48 ; reply of Sherman, 44 ; retreat of the ene- 

 my, 44 ; movement on Orangeburg, 44 ; Edisto crossed, 

 44; march upon Colombia, 8. C., 44; bridge opposite 

 Columbia reached, 45 ; Columbia surrenders, 45 ; report 

 of Sherman, 45 ; burning of cotton by Hampton, 45 ; 

 burning of the city, 45 ; troops which first entered the 

 city, 46; consequences of Sherman's movements, 46; 

 Hardee evacuates Charleston, 46 ; movement of Gen. 

 Hatch, 46 ; surrender of the city, 46 ; report, 46 ; proper- 

 ty captured, 46; report on the first entrance to the city, 

 47 ; movements of Hardee, 47 ; Sherman continues his 

 march, 48 ; Winnsboro 1 occupied, 48 ; Rocky Mount, 48 ; 

 feint against Charlotte, 48 ; destruction of the railroad, 

 48 ; Sherman's letter to Hampton, 48 ; Hampton's reply, 

 48 ; repulse of Capt. Duncan, 49 ; Cheraw, 49 ; Chester- 

 field occupied, 49 ; property captured, 49 ; Fayetteville, 

 N. C., 49 ; march upon, 49 ; its occupation, 49 ; retreat 

 of Hardee, 49 ; report of Sherman on his position, 49 ; 

 concentration of Confederate forces under Johnston, 49 ; 

 messengers of Sherman, 50 ; success, 50 ; movements of 

 Schofleld, 50 ; advance upon Wilmington, 50 ; retreat of 

 the enemy, 60 ; occupation of the city, 61 ; Schofleld 

 operates from Newbern against Goldsboro', 51 ; its cap- 

 ture, 51 ; further advance of Sherman, 51 ; movements 

 of Howard, 51 ; do. of Kilpatrick, 51 ; do. of Slocum, 

 61 ; position of Hardee, 52 ; attack, 62 ; Averysboro', 62 ; 

 advance of Slocum, 62; statement of Sherman, 52; or- 

 ders to Schofleld, 52; attack by Johnston, 68; loss at 

 Bentonsville, 68; Sherman reaches Goldsboro', 68; his 

 plans, 58. 



Grant's preparations for final conflict, 53 ; movement 

 of Sheridan to join Grant, 54 ; advance up the Shenan- 

 doah, 54 ; Staunton occupied, 54 ; escape of Early, 54 ; 

 expedition to Scottsville, 54 ; burning of bridges, 54 ; de- 

 struction of the canal, 65 ; Sheridan arrives at City 

 Point,. 55; takes a position on the left of Grant's army, 

 55. 



The line of Grant's army, 55 ; attack by the enemy on 

 Fort Steadman, 55 ; repulse, 55 ; loss, 55 ; Meade's con- 

 gratulatory order, 55; indications of the weakness of Lee, 

 66 ; marching orders given to the army, 56 ; movement 

 of the cavalry, 56; do. of the infantry, 56; cannonade at 

 Petersburg, 56; operations beyond Hatcher's Run, 58; 

 repulse of Warren's division, 6S ; reenforced and the 

 ground recovered, 58 ; battle of Five Forks, 59 ; repulse 

 of the enemy, 59 ; report of President Lincoln, 60 ; Lee 

 orders the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, 60 ; 

 surrender of Petersburg, 60 ; occupation of Richmond, 

 60 ; fire, 60 ; military governor appointed, 61 ; orders, 

 61 ; first entrance of the army into the city, 61, 62 ; fur- 

 ther operations against Gen. Lee's army, 62 ; letters cap- 

 tured, 62; the pursuit urged, 63; correspondence be- 

 tween Grant and Lee, 64 ; surrender of Lee's army, 64 ; 

 paroles of the officers and men, 65 ; numbers surren- 

 dered, 65 ; salutes ordered by the War Department, 65. 



Stoneman's march from East Tennessee to North 

 Carolina, 66; destruction, 66; Sherman advances from 

 Goldsboro', 66 ; hears the news of Lee's surrender. 66 ; 

 hurries forward against Johnston, 66 ; letter from John- 

 ston, 66; Sherman's reply, 67; interview between Sher- 

 man and Johnston, 67 ; Sherman's report, 67 ; terms of 

 surrender agreed upon, 68 ; rejected by the War Depart- 

 ment, 68 ; reasons, 68 ; Sherman's report of his proceed- 

 ings, 69 ; correspondence with Johnston, 69, 70 ; surren- 

 der of Johnston, 70 ; farewell to his army, 70. 



Expedition of Wilson into Alabama, 71 ; battle at 

 Plantersville, 71 ; Wilson moves eastward, 71 ; capture* 

 Selma, 71 ; Montgomery, 71 ; and Macon, Ga., 71 ; his re 

 port, 71. 



Movements against Mobile by the army and navy, 71 ; 

 capture of Spanish Fort, 72 ; retreat of Taylor, 72 ; ad- 

 vance of Steele from Pensacola, 72 ; occupation of Mo- 

 bile, 72; surrender of Taylor's army, 72; surrender of 

 naval vessels and officers, 78. 



Order of Kirby Smith in Texas, 78; the last battle of 

 the war, 78 ; surrender of Kirby Smith's army, 78. 



Military occupation of the insurrectionary States by 

 the Federal forces complete, 74 ; review of Grant's and 

 Sherman's armies at Washington, 74; disbandmcnt, 74; 

 Sherman's farewell to his army, 74 ; Grant's farewell to 

 the armies, 75; Prebidential order relative to commercial 

 intercourse, 75; prisoners of war, 75; disbandment of 

 sanitary and Union organizations, 76 ; destruction of the 

 gunboat Webb, 76 ; retreat of Mr. Davis, 77 ; his procla- 

 mation, 77; capture and imprisonment, 77; numbers 

 surrendered in the Southern armies, 77 ; Federal forco 

 in the field, 77 ; how distributed, 78 ; suspension of draft- 

 ing, 78 ; progress in mustering out troops, 78 ; rapidity, 

 79 ; military organization adopted, 79 ; departments and 

 sub-departments, 80 ; list of battles and skirmishes of 

 the war, 81-84 ; difficulty of knowing the number 

 killed and wounded, 84; organization of the War De- 

 partment, 85 ; general officers of the regular army, 85 ; 

 do. of the volunteer army on January 1, 1805, 86-89; 

 organization of the Navy Department, 90 ; rear-ad- 

 mirals of the navy, 90; list of commodores in the 

 navy, 90, 91. 



ASHLEY, JAMES M. Representative from Ohio, 205 ; on recon- 

 sidering the vote on the joint resolution amending th 

 Constitution, 206; on reconstruction, 246, 265-257. 



