idential candidate Scott, 98;
nominates Webster for Presidency, 99;
break in, by Southern members, 100;
Toombs' defection from, 105;
rupture over Scott's nomination, 121;
absorption into Republican party, 140

Wilde, Gen., attempts the capture of Toombs, 286

Wilkes County, land-grant to Major Robert Toombs in, 2;
partition of lands in, 3;
birth-place of Gen. Toombs, 4;
legal practice in, 15, 16, 22, 23;
factions in, 29, 30;
politics of, 32;
defeat of Whigs in, 37;
assigned to Eighth Congressional District, 44

Wilkinson County, escape through, 296

Willington, S. C., speech at, 45

Wilmot, David, member of Twenty-ninth Congress, 56

Wilmot Proviso, Ohio's position in regard to, 60;
menace to the South, 70, 79;
abandoned, 79, 87;
Webster's attitude on, 99, 100;
how characterized by Toombs, 149

Wingfield, J. T., 288

Winthrop, Robert C., member of Twenty-ninth Congress, 56;
defeated for Speakership, 69

Wisconsin, debate on counting Electoral vote, 193, 194

Wolseley, Gen., on Sherman's invasion of Georgia, 281

Worth, Fort, meeting with squatters at, 153, 154

Wright, A. R., deputy to Provisional Congress, 215

Yancey, William L., member of Twenty-ninth Congress, 56;
leads seceders from Charleston convention, 177;
letter to Slaughter, 177, 178;
speech in Charleston, 178;
commissioner to Europe, 229

Yorktown, Toombs' operations at, 244, 245

"Young Alice," 300

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as
possible, including obsolete and variant spellings. Obvious
typographical errors in punctuation (misplaced quotes and the like) have
been fixed. Corrections [in brackets] in the text are noted below:

page 39: typo corrected

and declared the resolutions adopted. Mr. Toombe[Toombs]
fired up at this unusual decision. He threw himself before

page 122: possible typo

he did run for Congress and scored[should be scorned?] the
secret order on every stump in the district.

page 171: quote added in likely place

Mr. Toombs contended that this was no new principle
introduced into our Constitution. ["]It was inserted in
the ordinance of 1787. The New

page 237: typo corrected

When General Toombs joined the Army his staff was made up as
follows; D. M. Dubose[DuBose], Adjutant General;