Shakespeare, quoted, 36, 118, 119

Shakespeare"s _Hamlet_, 85, 140

shelter, lack of at Salisbury, 53, 55, 136

Shenandoah river and valley, 1, 2

Sheridan"s devastation, 1, 2, 3

Sherman, Gen. W. T., quoted, 1

"shot twice into inch pieces," 24

Simpson, Lieut. J. B.; his sly trick, 77

singing at evening at Danville, 104, 141

Sixth Corps, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13

"skirmishing" a misnomer, 102, 103

slavery doomed in any event, 149

"Slim Jim," 101

Small, Major Adner A., 142

Smith, Robert C., Confed. commandant, 81, 82

Smith, Col. Robert C., Yale man, kind, 82, +

Smith, Sergt. W. F., clerk, 129

"snack?" or snake? 49

sorghum syrup issued, 94

soup, so called (or broth), 44, 94, 102

spittoon mystery, solved? 78

spoon, carving of, 83, 141 (note)

"spoon fashion," lying in, 105

"_Spoon_"! significance of, 105

Sprague, Bvt. Col. H. B., _pa.s.sim_, and 143 (note)

stampede, Yankee, 11, 12; Confederate, 18, 23

Stanton, E. M., War Secretary, 147, 148

State, allegiance to, 39

Staunton, Va., march to, 2, 28

Staunton, arrival and breakfast at, 32, 33

Staunton, Morgan"s guerrilla kind at, 33, 34

stealing rations from guards, haversacks, 77

Stephens, Hon. Alexander H., 146, 147

"Storming Column" at Port Hudson, 7

"Stove Brigade," at Danville, 79

stoves in prison at Danville, 79, 95

Strasburg, Va., 20

Strickland, undertaker, 129

Stuart, Dr. Moses, on slavery, 29

subjugation policy, Lincoln"s, 151

sunrise on the Blue Ridge, 36

sutler, Confederate, 84

swearing, copious, of two kinds, 14, 15, 39

sweeping the floors, 87, 100

Swepson, George W., very kind, 49, 50

T

table-knife saw, Lieut. t.i.tus"s, 97, 111

Tarbell, Capt. Doctor, a.s.sistant commissary, 54, 100

Taylor, Bayard, quoted, 80

_tertium quid_, solution of mystery, 78