W
Waddell, Hugh, 238, 239
Wagner, massacre of, 284
Wakefield, Ala., 353
Walker, Percy, 361
Wallace, Gen. Lew, defends Washington, 141
Walnut Hills, Vicksburg, 433, 438
Walter's Flora Caroliniana, 272
War of 1812, Southern cities in, see individual cities
War, the Civil, see individual cities
War Office, U. S., 126
Warrenton, Mississippi, 433
Washburn, Rev. Cephas, 544
Washington, City of, xxix;
F. A. Vanderlip on, 101-150;
prediction of, 103-106;
selection of site, 106-115;
Washington's influence, 115-119;
Act of 1790, 116;
planning of, 119;
naming of, 120;
the Capitol, 121;
the White House, 125;
seat of government removed to, 126;
agitation for removal of capital, 130;
War of 1812, 131-136;
rebuilding, 137;
ante-bellum days, 138-141;
the Civil War, 141;
the reforms of Shepherd, 142-146
Washington, George, 85, 87, 101, 150, 168, 303, 340, 492;
in Baltimore, 24;
at Annapolis, 59, 72;
at Frederick, 96;
in French and Indian War, 78-80, 85;
quoted, 80, 148;
nominated to command of Continental armies, 87;
and the genesis of Washington City, 103-119;
lays cornerstone of Capitol, 122;
retirement of, 125;
Houdon's statue of, 165;
Crawford's statue of, 166, 167;
in Richmond, 173;
at Yorktown, 187;
at Williamsburg, 196, 214;
in Charleston, 286;
in Savannah, 299, 320, 325;
and William Blount, 452, 453
Washington, Wm. A., 84
Washington College, Pa., 208
Washington Monument, the, 36, 44
Watauga, settlement of, 450, 479, 480, 484, 486
Watters's Battery, 364
Watterson, Henry, 506, 534
Watkins, George C., 548
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, at Savannah, 318
Weatherford, 355
Webster, Daniel, xxiii, 140, 141, 464;
quoted, 117
Weehawken, the, 324
Wegg, Atty.-Gen. E. R., 343
Weld's Travels, 214
Wellington, xxx, 132;
in Spain, 357
Wells, W. C., Theory of Dew, 272
Wesley, John, in Georgia, 298, 308-310
Wesley Monumental Church, Savannah, 310
West, Benjamin, 274
West, Joseph, 252
West Florida, 344, 346, 352
Westminster Abbey, 271
Whetstone Point, Md., 6, 11,
22
White and the national capital, 115
White House, the, 125, 126, 482;
of the Confederacy, 178, 179
White, Hugh L., 463-465
White, James, founds Knoxville, 449, 451, 452
Whitefield, George, in Georgia, 287, 298, 308, 310, 311
"White's Fort," 451
Whitney and the cotton-gin, 298, 306
Whittier, 98
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