Splaine, Henry, colonel 17th Massachusetts,
commanding brigade in Carter's division at battle of Kinston, North Carolina.
Sprague, Wm., Governor of R. I.,
on McClellan's favoritism for Porter.
Staff Officers,
services hidden from view, chances for promotion less than those of line officers;
qualifications and appointment of.
Stafford, Leroy A., colonel 9th La.,
commanding brigade at Antietam.
Stager, Anson, colonel,
suerintendent of military telegraphs at Washington.
Stahel, Julius,
appointed major general United States Volunteers.
Stanley, David S.,
appointed major general United States Volunteers.
Stanley, Timothy R., colonel 18th Ohio,
at Chattanooga;
in Ohio Senate at outbreak of war.
Stanton, Edwin M., Secretary of War,
first meeting with;
disapproves of restoring McClellan to command;
pleasant leavetaking;
maintains right of President to appoint additional major and brigadier generals;
reports six major generals at home with no assignments to duty;
informs himself about conditions of things in Rosecrans' army;
dismisses telegraph operator for revealing cipher to Grant's engineer;
adopts new cipher known only to operators;
this system criticised;
asks Sherman to detail certain officers to stump northern States;
impatience with Thomas before battle of Nashville;
cordial manner with General Cox;
petulance about Schofield's use of hospital steamer for headquarters;
inquires about Sherman's treatment of the negro;
approves his allotment of sea-island lands to the freedmen;
dispatch to Dix, reflecting on Sherman;
false implications of;
refutation;
nine criticisms of Sherman-Johnston Convention considered;
objections, really to Lincoln's policy;
position against amnesty not sustained by the people;
orders Sherman's subordinates not to obey his orders;
ignores capitulation, while paroles were being issued;
suppressio veri;
mutilates Grant's dispatch for publication;
constitutional inability to admit that he was in the wrong;
publishes Halleck's "plunder" dispatch in garbled form;
evident purpose to humiliate Sherman;
makes no public explanation;
tells Howard that Sherman had put administration on the defensive;
regarded Sherman's convention and dispatch as acts of vanity to be put down.
Starke, Wm. E., brigadier general Confederate States Army,
at Harper's Ferry;
killed at Antietam.