"River Defense Fleet," [70], [97]
River War (1862), [116] et seq.; (1863), [260] et seq., [327]
Roanoke Island captured, [93]
"Rock of Chickamauga," nickname for General Thomas, [280], [370]
Rodgers, Commander John, and first flotilla on Mississippi, [118]
Roe, Commander of the Sassacus, [319]
Rosecrans, General W. S., succeeds McClellan, [30]; Army of Mississippi under, [160]; holds Memphis-Corinth rails, [161]; replaces Buell, [162]; victory at Corinth, [163]; commands Army of Cumberland, [164]; Stone's River, [164-65]; maneuvers Bragg south, [279]; Thomas supersedes, [280]; Confederate plan to crush, [287]; Chattanooga, [305]
Sabine Cross Roads (Louisiana), Banks's defeat at, [330]
Sabine Pass (Texas), in Confederate hands, [115], [310]
Sable Island, Butler's troops at, [104]