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