by Ron Chernow
White Man’s Party, 788
white supremacist groups, 760, 789
see also Ku Klux Klan; White League
Whitlow, John Henry, 640
Whitman, Walt, ix, 124, 359, 385, 542, 617, 650, 654, 773, 863, 955–56
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 829
Wilcox, Cadmus M., 62
Wilderness, battle of the, 375–85, 390, 393, 400, 404, 431, 637
casualties of, 384, 385
Grant’s article on, 929
Wilentz, Sean, xxii
Wilhelm I, emperor of Germany, 876
Willard Hotel, 71, 162, 340, 343, 454, 456, 519, 524, 528, 546
Williams, Abram, 843
Williams, George H., 607, 711, 761, 762, 765–66, 767, 781, 786–87, 792
Williams, Kenneth P., 237
Williams, Seth, 500, 509
Wilmington, N.C., 460, 470, 472, 473, 522
Wilmot, David, 59
Wilmot Proviso, 59
Wilson, Bluford, 798, 802, 804, 805, 807
Wilson, Henry, 283, 338, 720, 741, 743, 747, 753, 754, 779, 782, 785, 837
Wilson, James H., 86–87, 149, 210, 237, 247–48, 255, 312, 318, 362, 386, 398, 399, 439, 462, 617, 625, 626, 632, 669, 670–71, 678, 798
McClernand fired by, 272
Wilson, Woodrow, 686, 837, 854
Wilson’s Creek, battle of, 143–44
Wing, Henry, 384
Wisconsin, 100, 109, 117, 121–22
Wise, Isaac Mayer, 643
Wish-ton-wish, 93, 94
Wittenmyer, Annie, 299–300
Wolf, Simon, 620, 642, 643, 659, 837
Wood, Charles, 925
Wood, Thomas, 322
Woodhull, Victoria, 749–50
Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, 771–72
Woodward, C. Vann, xxii
Wool, John E., 64
World War I, 387
World War II, 516
Wormley Conference, 849
Worth, William J., 51, 55
Wright, Henry Clay, 93–94, 101, 389, 402, 491, 500
in battle of Cold Harbor, 404
Wright, Horatio, 420
Wyoming Territory, 819
Yates, Richard, 129–32, 135
on capture of Fort Donelson, 184
Grant appointed colonel by, 136
Yazoo Pass, 247–48, 255, 268, 272, 273, 277
Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company, 874
Yellow Tavern, 388
York (horse), 27
Yosemite Valley, 739
Young, John Russell, 23, 629, 734, 848, 863–64, 869, 871, 874, 878–79, 882–83, 891–92, 893, 899, 912
Young’s Point, La., 245–46, 250
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of six previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the American History Book Prize. A past president of PEN America, Chernow has been the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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