War, Civil, in U.S.A.:  general conditions and strategic aspects of the war, 214-27, 273-8; preliminary struggles in border States, 228-45; first Battle of Bull Run, 245-50; blockade of South and naval operations generally, 251-3; war in West to occupation of Corinth and taking of New Orleans, 279-84; Merrimac and Monitor, 292-3; beginning of Peninsula campaign, 290-5; “Stonewall” Jackson’s Valley campaign, 295-7; end of Peninsula campaign, 298-302; second Battle of Bull Run, 303-4; Lee’s invasion of Maryland and Antietam, 304-7; Fredericksburg, 309; Chancellorsville, 311; Buell’s operations in autumn of 1863, Confederate invasion of Kentucky, and Murfreesborough, 338-43; Vicksburg campaigns and completion of, conquest of Mississippi, 348-55; Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, and Meade’s campaign in Virginia, 355-8; campaigns of Chickamauga, Eastern Tennessee, and Chattanooga, 358-64; certain minor operations, 386-8; military situation at beginning of 1864 and Grant’s plans, 386, 389; Grant’s campaign against Lee to beginning of siege of Petersburg, 390-2; Early’s Shenandoah campaign, 394; Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, 394-5; Farragut at Mobile, 395; Sheridan in Lower Shenandoah Valley, 395-6; Sherman’s plans, 396; Hood’s invasion of Tennessee, 396-7; Sherman’s march to Savannah, 397-8; Petersburg siege continues, 398; effect of Sherman’s operations, 431; Sherman’s advance northward from Savannah, 435; Porter and Terry take Fort Fisher, 435-6; Petersburg siege progresses, 436; Sherman in North Carolina, 436-7; Sheridan in Upper Shenandoah Valley, 437-8; fall of Petersburg and Richmond, and surrender of Lee, 445-8; surrender of other Confederate forces, 452-3.

Ward, Artemus:  208, 231, 324.

Washington City:  its importance and dangers in the war, 225, 239-42, 248, 293-4, 295-7, 302, 304, 355-6, 376, 392-3; its political society, 418.

Washington, George:  10, 21, 37, 76, 203-4, 388.

Watson, William:  460.

Webster, Daniel:  his career and services, 41-2; his great speech, 45-6, 173; value of his support to Whigs, 68; Lincoln meets him, 91; his support of compromise of 1850 and his death, 99-100.

Weed, Thurlow, 193-4, 414, 443.

Weems’ Life of Washington:  10.

Welles, Gideon:  202, 252-3, 263, 271, 406.

Wellington:  377.

Wesley, Samuel:  35.

West, the:  7-9, 27-8, 46, 61, 91, 93, 155, 224, 226, 303, 305. And see War.

West Indies, British:  29, 52.

West Point:  223, 390.

West Virginia:  225, 229, 243, 296, 334, 400.

Whig Party:  48, 66-8, 91-3, 95, 100, 111, 117, 159, 433.

Whites, Poor or Mean:  55, 178.

Whitman, Walt:  61, 237, 238, 418-9.

Whitney, Eli:  39.

Wilmington:  251, 435-6.

Wilmot, David and Wilmot Proviso:  96, 99, 117.

Wilson, President:  45, 54.

Wisconsin:  38, 172.