=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,
  reenlists 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 reelection 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