Subject Index

Virginia, importance, 7; and Fort Sumter, 10; secession, 20, 24; joins Confederacy, 24.

See also Appomattox; Border States; Bull Run; Chancellorsville; Fredericksburg; Peninsular; Petersburg; Shenandoah Valley; Wilderness.

Wade, B. F., and McClellan’s inactivity, 60; and Cabinet crisis, 188; and Meade, 210.

Walker, F. A., on removal of McClellan, 181; on Wilderness campaign, 310.

Walker, L. P., as Secretary of War, 33; on loss of New Orleans, 123.

Wallace, Lew, Fort Donelson, 88–91; Shiloh, 97, 103, 105.

War, not a phase of American genius, 364.

War governors, 361–363.

War powers, and Emancipation Proclamation, 172.

Ward, Artemus, Lincoln’s fondness for, 173.

Warren, G. K., Gettysburg, 236 n.; as corps commander, 430.

Washburne, E. B., and Frémont, 55; and Grant after Shiloh, 107.

Washington, D. C., isolated, 19–23; alarm over Jackson’s valley operations, 129, 130; after Second Bull Run, McClellan commands, 160–163; Early’s raid, 326–328.

Wayne, H. C., on prolongation of the war, 259 n.

Weed, Thurlow, on grave conditions (1864), 360.

Weitzel, Godfrey, occupies Richmond, 433.

Welles, Gideon, and Trent affair, 71; as Secretary of Navy, 110; and Monitor, 111, 114; and Merrimac, 113, 117; plans against New Orleans, 118; and Emancipation Proclamation, 152; on Halleck, 163; on Lee’s invasion (1862), 168; on McClellan after Antietam, 179; and Cabinet crisis, 191; and Hooker, 208; on Chancellorsville, 221; on Lincoln and Hooker, 231; on Lincoln and Meade, 291; on Wilderness campaign, 320; on political campaign (1864), 321; on Grant and Early’s raid, 327.

Whitman, Walt, on assassination of Lincoln, 437, 438.

Wilderness campaign, strategy, 306; battle of Wilderness, 306–308; Wilderness terrain, 306 n.; losses, 308, 311–313; Federal forward movement, 308; Spottsylvania, Grant’s policy of attrition, 309, 310; Cold Harbor, 311; crossing of the James, 312, 322; effect on morale, 312, 323; comparison with earlier Virginia campaigns, 312–314; and political campaign, Lincoln and, 320; effect on Grant, 325; disappointment in North, 329–331.

Wildman, Miss, acknowledgment to, vi.

Wilkes, Charles, Trent affair, 70.

Wilmington, N. C., blockade-running, 379, 380; closed, 414.

Wilson, J. H., acknowledgments to, v, 96 n.; on Grant at Shiloh, 108 n.; at Vicksburg, 254 n., 257.

Winchester, Va., Jackson’s capture, 129.

Women, in Northern agriculture, 347; Lincoln’s tribute, 357; Southern, 389–391.

Worden, J. L., Monitor-Merrimac fight, 114–116.

Wright, H. G., and Early’s raid, 327; as corps commander, 430.

Wyman, Miss, acknowledgment to, vi.

York, Pa., Confederate occupation, 227.

Yorktown, Va., McClellan’s operations, 125, 126.

This Index was made for me by David M. Matteson.

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