Vicksburg, Farragut's expedition, [105-06], [107]; importance of position, [110]; Sherman's attempt, [114], [260]; see also Chickasaw Bluffs; Grant's operations preceding, [156]; Grant's objective, [160], [163]; Holly Springs, [163-64]; Confederates hold, [167]; Grant's position, [260-261]; generals at, [261-62]; Navy at, [262-63], [265-67]; Grant's maneuvers, [263-64]; Federal force, [267-68]; Confederate force, [268]; scene of action, [268]; army rations at, [269-70]; siege, [271-77]; surrender, [277-78]; significance of victory, [286]; effect of victory, [305], [310]
"Vicksburg Oak," Grant meets Pemberton under, [277]
Vinton. Major, Union officer at San Antonio, [9], [10]
Virginia, Lee's loyalty to, [11]; blockade, [16]; secedes, [17], [56]; Lee given chief command in, [19]; West Virginia part of, [23]; issues call for volunteers, [25]; West Virginia separates from, [29]; mountain folk Unionists, [56]; Federals hold western part of, [57]; Farragut from, [95]; Pope transferred to, [159]; Burnside's invasion of, [247-51]; Grant transferred to, [334]; campaign (1864), [334-36], [340-46], [348-56], [362], [365]; Wilderness, [341-44]; Todd's Tavern, [342]; Spotsylvania, [342-43]; Sheridan's raid, [344], [345-46]; Cold Harbor, [349-54]; losses, [355]; campaign (1865), [380], [384], [386-88]; Petersburg, [384], [386]; Five Forks, [386]; Sailor's Creek, [387]; Lee's surrender, [388-93]; see also Peninsula campaign
Virginia, Merrimac renamed, [86]
Virginia Military Institute, Jackson at, [20]; cadets join Jackson, [208]
Walke, Henry, commands Carondelet, [133], [134]
Walker, Fort, [92]
Wallace, General Lew, as a leader, [135-36]; at Fort Donelson, [138]; Shiloh, [148], [151], [154]; and Early, [356]
Wallace, General W. H. L., killed, [152]