The American Civil War - This Mighty Scourge of War

328 The American Civil War

Virginia
campaigns (1863-65) 166
secession from the Union 31, 239
Virginia, CSS 46
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad 212
Virginia Military Institute 36, 212
Vizetelly, Frank 43
volunteers 32, 36, 106, 147

Waddell, Lieutenant James I. 236
Wade-Davis Bill 274
Walker, General James A. 196
Walker, Leroy P. 118
Wallace, General Lew 148, 148 , 213-14
war bonds 90
Ward, William 284, 290
Warren, General Gouverneur K. 186, 208, 208 ,
211,223
Warrenton 55, 181
Warrenton Turnpike (Manassas) 39, 40, 55
Washington, Ella Bassett 231-5, 231
Washington, George 232, 234, 310
Washington, Lieutenant James Barroll 232,
233, 235
Washington, Colonel Lewis 231-2
Washington DC 214-15,274
Waud, Alfred A. 70, 79
Waynesboro, battle of (2 March 1865) 220
weapons 15
Weitzel, Major-General Godfrey 290
Weldon Railroad 204, 208, 209
Welles, Gideon 63
Wellington, Duke of 38
West Point, graduates 35, 36
Western & Atlantic Railroad 265, 267 , 268
Western Theater 105, 129, 160-1
Wheatficld (Gettysburg) 177

Wheeler, Major-General Joseph 275, 276

Whig Party 12, 13, 14

Widow Lapp Farm (Wilderness) 187

Wiggins, John 300

Wilder, Colonel, John T. 130

Wilderness of Spotsylvania 74

Wilderness, battle of the (5-6 May 1864)

186-91, 186, 188-9, 190, 227

battlefield 183

campaign 185

Wilkes, Captain Charles 45

Wilmington, North Carolina 290

Wilmot Proviso (1846) 13

Wilson, Major-General James Harrison 279,

281, 284

Wilson's Creek, battle of (10 August 1861)

109-10, 250

Winchester

first battle of (25 May 1862) 47

second battle of (14-15 June 1863) 172

third battle of (19 September 1864) 216,

216-17

Winder, General Charles S. 224

Wirz, Major Henry 313

women 89-90, 96, 302

wounded 83

Wright, General Horatio G. 219-20, 223

Yancy, William L. 26-7

Yazoo Delta 132

Yazoo Pass 139

Yellow Tavern 197

Younger, Cole and Jim 250

Zoan Church (Chancellorsville) 75

Zollicoffer, Brigadier-General Felix 104 , 112, 114

Zouave uniforms 147-8, 224