=, 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.
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