Smith, Giles, Chattanooga, [282]
Smith, General Kirby, Bull Run, [53]
Smith, William, quartermaster on Kearsarge, [316]
Sons of Liberty, [59]
South, seceding States of, [56]; war party in, [57]; population (1861), [60-61]; resources, [62-64]; transportation, [64-66]; sea-power, [66-68]; see also Navy, Confederate; reason for fighting, [75]; advantages, [75-77]; raiders, [311]; situation (1864), [335]; losses (1864), [367]; cause lost, [379]; number of troops, [380]
South Carolina, secedes, [1]; defeat at Port Royal, [92]; see also Carolinas, Charleston
South Mountain, Stuart at, [245]
Spotsylvania (Virginia), battle, [342-48]
Stanton, E. M., Secretary of War, [179]; and Lincoln, [179]; military interference, [181], [207], [290], [291], [338]; and Lee, [182]; Cameron succeeded by, [195]; Banks and, [211]; orders McClellan to Aquia, [228]; and Hooker, [252], [290]; forbids use of cipher, [330-81]; and Grant's orders, [332-333], [363]
Star of the West, merchant vessel fired on at Charleston, [3], [4]