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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