on, 267-269;
called the war for the Negro, 269;
President Lincoln's second emancipation proclamation, 272;
employment of Negroes as soldiers, 276-309;
President Lincoln's call for more troops, 287;
order for the enlistment of Negro troops, 290;
number of Negroes in the army, 297, 299-301;
expedition of the First S. C. Volunteers, Negro Regiment,
into Ga. and Fla., 314;
battle of Port Hudson, 320-323;
Milliken's Bend, 326, 327;
memorable events of July, 1863, 328;
attack on Fort Wagner, 329;
battles fought by Negroes, in the Army of the Potomac, 335;
their services at the siege of Petersburg, Va., 336-342;
number of, engaged in the battles around Nashville, Tenn., 342;
capture and treatment of Negro soldiers, 350-376;
the Fort Pillow massacre, 360-376;
reconstruction of the Confederate States, 377-383;
end of the war, 377;
provisional military government established, bureau for the
relief of freedmen and refugees, 379.

Ward, Rev. Samuel Ringgold, his book, "Autobiography of a Fugitive
Negro," 59;
mentioned, 79;
anti-slavery orator, 434.

Ward, T. M. D., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.

Washington, D. C., first Colored school established, 1807;
population of free persons, 182;
Colored schools, 182-213;
the Snow riot, 188;
Colored church organized, 190.

Washington, Annie E., school for the education of Colored people, 209.

Washington, George, emancipates his slaves, 43; called the
illustrious Southerner, 105.

Waugh, Nannie, establishes school for Colored children, destroyed
by mob, 192.

Wayman, A. W., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.

Wears, I. C., delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth
amendment, 422.

Webb, Capt., Thomas, one of the founders of the M. E. Church in
New York, 465, 466.

Webster, Daniel, author of memorial against the increase of
slavery, 16.

Webster, Thomas, representative of Phila. in the first conference
of the African M. E. Church, 452.

Welch, Jonathan A., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of
Prudence Crandall, 156.

Wells, Nelson, establishes school for free children of color, 161.

Wesley, John, founder of Methodism, 465, 466;
opposed to slavery, 467.

Wesleyan Seminary, Washington, D. C., 194.

West Virginia, number of Negro tro