lanta campaign;
capture of Mobile;
Sheridan's Valley campaign;
Sherman's march to the sea;
Thomas's destruction of Hood's army;
sinking of the Alabama and of the Albemarle;
decay of Confederate army in 1865;
siege of Petersburg;
march of Sherman through Carolinas;
Bentonsville;
attempts of Lee to escape;
Five Forks;
abandonment of Petersburg and Richmond;
flight of Lee to Southwest;
Appomattox;
surrender of Lee;
surrender of Johnston.

Washburne, Elihu B.,
letters of Lincoln to, on senatorial election of 1855, see vol. i.;
on compromise in 1861;
meets Lincoln at Washington;
in House in 1861.

Washington, George,
futility of attempt to compare Lincoln with, see vol. ii.

Webb, General A.S.,
on effects of politics in Virginia campaigns, see vol. i.;
on the consequences of Lincoln's relation to McClellan, see vol. ii.;
on McClellan's change of base.

Webster, Daniel,
his 7th of March speech, see vol. i.

Weed, Thurlow,
advocates revision of Constitution in 1860, see vol. i.

Weitzel, General Godfrey,
enters Richmond, see vol. ii.

Welles, Gideon,
secretary of navy, see vol. i.;
opposes relieving Sumter;
changes opinion;
not told by Lincoln of plan to relieve Pensacola;
learns that Lincoln has spoiled his plan to relieve Sumter;
wishes Lincoln to close Southern ports by proclamation;
disapproves of Lincoln's scheme of amnesty, see vol. ii.

West,
social characteristics of frontier life in, see vol. i.;
democracy in;
vagrants in;
violence and barbarity of;
manners and customs;
grows in civilization;
economic conditions of;
frontier law and politics;
popular eloquence in;
its ignorance of foreign countries.

West Virginia,
origin of, see vol. i.;
campaign of McClellan in;
forms a state Constitution, see vol. ii.;
question of its admission;
its vote counted in 1864.

Whigs,
character of, in Illinois, see vol. i.;
support Lincoln for speaker;
fail to carry Illinois in 1840;
and in 1844;
elect Lincoln to Congress;
oppose Mexican war;
elect Taylor;
defeated in 1852;
join Know-Nothings in 1856.

White, Hugh L.,
supported by Lincoln in 1836, see vol. i.

Whiteside, General Samuel,
in Black Hawk war, see vol. i.

Wigfall, Lewis T.,
jeers at North in 1860, see vol. i.

Wilderness,
battle of, see vol. ii.

Wilkes, Captain Charles,
seizes Mason and Slidell,