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in American Revolution, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1

election of, 1.1, 1.2

King on, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

as president, 1.1, 6.1

slavery and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 9.1, nts.1

statue of, 5.1, 7.1

Washington, John T., 8.1

Washington, Martha, 9.1, nts.1

Washington’s Birthday, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1

Weaverville, Calif., 6.1

Weber, Max, 8.1, 8.2

Webster, Daniel, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1

Weigel, Josephine, 6.1

Weller, John B., 6.1

Welles, Gideon, 4.1, 4.2

Wellington, Lord, 5.1, 5.2

West, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, bm1.1

telegraph in, 5.1, 6.1, nts.1

Western Anti-Slavery Society, 3.1

Western Reserve, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, nts.1

Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later known as Hiram College), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, bm1.1, nts.1, nts.2

Western Union Telegraph Company, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Westliche Post, 6.1, 6.2

West Point, U.S. Military Academy at, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, nts.1

Wheeling, Va., 3.1, bm1.1

Whigs, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1

White House, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, bm1.1, nts.1

Alexandria Confederate flag and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Ellsworth at, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1

White Mountains, 6.1, 6.2

Whitman, Walt, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, nts.1

poetry of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, bm1.1, nts.1

Whittier, John Greenleaf, nts.1

Whittier, Matthew (Ethan Spike), nts.1

Wide Awakes, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, nts.1

in St. Louis, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

Wigfall, Louis T., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, bm1.1

at Sumter, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1, nts.2

Willard Hotel, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1

Willard’s Hall, 2.1, nts.1

William IV, King of England, 1.1

Williams College, 3.1

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 9.1

Willis (slave), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, nts.1

Wilson, Henry, 7.1

Winser, Henry J., 7.1

Winthrop, Theodore, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Wisconsin, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1

Wise, Henry A., 8.1

women

as abolitionists, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, nts.1

Crittenden’s petition from, 2.1

Disciples and, 3.1

German, 6.1

as Ohio free blacks, 3.1

political campaigns and, 6.1

in Wide Awakes, 1.1

women’s rights, 3.1, 3.2

Wood, Fernando, 2.1

World War II, prl.1

Young, Brigham, 6.1

Young, William Gourdin, nts.1

“Young American, The” (Emerson), 5.1

Young Men’s Christian Association, 4.1

youth, ascendance of, 5.1, nts.1

Yulee, David Levy, 2.1

Zouaves

Duryee’s, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

French, 5.1

see also First New York Fire Zouaves; U.S. Zouave Cadets

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

fm.1: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

fm.2: Department of Interior, National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection, Harpers Ferry Center

1.1: Farnham: Massachusetts Historical Society; Wide Awake: Courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

2.2: Architect of the U.S. Capitol

3.1: Garfield: Ohio Historical Society; Lecture Notes: James A. Garfield Papers, Library of Congress

3.2: National Archives

5.1: Collection of The New-York Historical Society

5.2: Author’s collection

7.1: Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress

8.1: Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress

8.2: Author’s collection

9.1: Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress

bm.1: Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adam Goodheart is a historian, journalist, and travel writer. He writes a regular online column on the Civil War for The New York Times. He has written for National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine, among others, and has worked as an editor of the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. He is a book reviewer for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the New York Observer. He lives in Washington, D.C., and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where he is the Hodson Trust–Griswold Director of Washington College