surrender of, July 4 1863, [376], [383];
situation of [381];
operations against, [381-383]
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,
proclamation of neutrality, [211];
kindly feelings toward United States, [247]
Vienna Station, ambush at, [214]
Virginia, State of, passes ordinance of secession, [194];
in the Confederacy, [204];
ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, [475]
Wade, Benjamin F., United States senator,
signs Wade-Davis manifesto, [456]
Walker, Leroy Pope, Confederate Secretary of War
and brigadier-general, speech at Montgomery, [197]
Walker, Robert J., United States senator Secretary
of the Treasury, appointed governor of Kansas, [114];
letter to Buchanan [114], [115];
resigns, [117]
Warren, Gouverneur K., brevet major-general United
States army, attacked by Lee, [507]
Washburne, Elihu B., member of Congress,
minister to France, meets Lincoln at railway station in Washington, [174]
Washington City, cutoff from the North, [194-197];
communication restored, [197];
fortifications of, [208], [209];
threatened by Early, [403];
grand review of Union army in, [527-529]
Washington, George, first President of the United States,
rank of lieutenant-general, [393];
size of his armies compared with Lee's, [524];
his place in United States history, [555]
Weitzel, Godfrey, brevet major-general United States army,
receives surrender of Richmond, [510];
sets about work of relief, [516]
Welles, Gideon, Secretary of the Navy,
appointed Secretary of the Navy, [182];
approves course of Captain Wilkes, [246];
at gathering of officials to discuss news of fight
between Monitor and Merrimac, [296];
refuses to sign cabinet protest, [311], [312];
Lincoln tells him of coming emancipation proclamation, [332]
West Virginia, State of, formation of, [200], [201];
true to the Union, [204];
effect on, of McClellan's campaign, [225];
admission to the Union, [418];
slavery in throttled by public opinion, [473]
Whig Party, first national convention of, [28];
nominates Henry Clay, [28];
convention of 1860, [143], [144]
White, Albert S., member of Congress, United States senator,
judge of District Court of Indiana,
reports bill to aid emancipation in Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, [326]
Whitesides, Samuel, general Illinois Volunteers,
reënlists as private in Black Hawk War, [33]
Wide Awakes, origin and campaign work of, [155], [156]
Wilderness, Virginia, battle of, May 5, 6 1864, [398]
Wilkes, Charles, rear-admiral United States navy,
capture of the Trent, [246-249]
Wilmington, North Carolina, occupation of, February 22 1865, [525]
Wilson, James H., brevet major-general United States army,
cavalry raid, and defeat of Forrest, [524], [525]
Wilson's Creek, Missouri, battle of, August 10 1861, [235]
Wise, Henry A., minister to Brazil;
governor of Virginia, Confederate brigadier-general desires
Douglas's reëlection to United States Senate, [126];
interview with John Brown, [134]
Worden, John L., rear-admiral United States navy,
commands the Monitor, [282]
Wright, Horatio G., brevet major-general United States army,
sent to Washington 403;
in recapture of Fort Stedman, [505], [506];
in assault at Petersburg, [508], [509]
Yates, Richard, member of Congress, governor of Illinois,
United States senator Lincoln advocates his reëlection, [96];
commissions Grant, [265];
appoints J.F. Jaquess colonel of volunteer regiment, [461]
Yorktown, Virginia, siege of, April 5 to May 3 1862, [301]
Zollicoffer, Felix K., member of Congress,
Confederate brigadier-general, in eastern Kentucky, [254];
defeated by Thomas, [265]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] By the law of primogeniture, which at that date was still unrepealed in Virginia, the family estate went to Mordecai, the eldest son.
[2] Franklin points out how much this resource of the early Americans contributed to their spirit of independence by saying:
"I can retire cheerfully with my little family into the boundless woods of America, which are sure to afford freedom and subsistence to any man who can bait a hook or pull a trigger."
(See "The Century Magazine," "Franklin as a Diplomatist," October, 1899, p. 888.)
[3] The following children were born of this marriage:
Robert Todd, August 1, 1843; Edward Baker, March 10, 1846; William Wallace, December 21, 1850; Thomas, April 4, 1853.
Edward died in infancy; William in the White House, February 20, 1862; Thomas in Chicago, July 15, 1871; and the mother, Mary Lincoln, in Springfield, July 16, 1882.