Van Buren, President, i. 109
Vansittart, William, ii. 187, 193 note
Vicksburg, capture of,
  ii. 143, 165, 176 note[2], 178, 228 note[3], 296;
  Southern defence of, 164, 165, 178;
  importance of, in the military situation, 165
Victoria, Queen, i. 76, 96, 168, 190 note[2]; ii. 40, 190, 262;
  pro-German influence of, 203 note[3];
  writes personal letter of sympathy to Mrs. Lincoln, 262
Vignaud, Henry, ii. 154 note[1]
Virginia, State of, i. 121, 122, 172, 245
Vogt, A., ii. 301 note[3]

Wales, Prince of, visit to United States in 1860, ... i. 80
Walker, Mr., and employment of ex-slaves in British Guiana, ii. 100
Wallbridge, General Hiram, ii. 123 and note[2]
Warburton, George Hochelaga:  i. 29
Washington, President, i. 11
Watts, Cotton, Famine, ii. 6 note[2]
Weed, Thurlow, i. 114 and notes, 129, 227, 231; ii. 130 note[2]
Welles, United States Secretary of the Navy, ii. 199;
  in Trent affair, congratulates Wilkes, i. 220;
  attitude to the “Privateering Bill,” ii. 123 note[2], 128, 137;
  mentioned, 84, 96
West Indian Colonies, i. 3;
  American trade with, 17, 19, 20, 21;
  slavery in, 31
Westbury, Lord, i. 262-3; ii. 64
Westminster Review, The, i. 48, 70 and note[1], 71
Wharncliffe, Lord, ii. 187, 193 note
Wheat and cotton in the Civil War, ii. 13 note[2]
Whig sympathy for American political principles, i. 26, 28
White, Andrew D., “A Letter to W.H.  Russell,”
  etc. cited, ii. 229 note[1]
Whittier, J.G., i. 29, 47
Wilberforce, Samuel, i. 31
Williams, Commander, R.N., i. 204
Wilkes, Captain, of the San Jacinto, intercepts the Trent,
  i. 204, 216, 219-20;
  American national approbation of, 219-20;
  Seward on, 233;
  his action officially stated to be unauthorized, 226, 254
Wilmington, N.C., i. 253 note[1]; ii. 247
Wilson, President, i. 90 note
Wodehouse, Lord, i. 84

Yancey, Southern Commissioner, i. 63, 82 and note, 85, 86, 264;
  ii. 4 note[3], 223 note[1]
Yeomans, cited, i. 38