Reveille in Washington

by Margaret Leech

  disease in, 8, 254–256, 307, 350

  exodus from, 74–75

  fire hazards, 14

  freedom of ladies in, 17

  geography of, 68

  hotels, 9–11, 135

  impatience in, 110, 111, 145, 151, 159–160, 250

  isolation of, 74–80, 419

  life in, 16–21, 77–78, 88–89, 92–94, 103–104, 111, 131, 150–151, 225–228, 320–333, 349–351

  Lincoln’s arrival in, 43–44

  military district of, 207

  military efficiency in, 136

  order in, 32, 92–93, 135, 309

  plan of, 6–13

  police, 13, 106, 135, 150, 168, 293, 300, 304–305, 311, 323–327, 329–330, 338, 340

  prisons, 324, 438; see also Old Capitol prison and Carroll Prison

  proposed as capital of Confederacy, 27

  prostitution in, 321–331

  restrictions, 135, 142

  sanitary conditions, 95

  seasonal character of, 14–15

  secessionist sympathy in, 4, 22–39, 57, 60, 62, 77, 117–119, 121, 130, 164–173, 176–177, 179–180, 184–187, 209, 248, 255–256, 273, 296, 301–302, 328, 340, 351, 353, 370–371, 420

  seige of, 417–423

  slavery in, 11, 207, 291–296

  abolition of, 297–310

  society, 17–20, 22–24, 42, 56–58, 60–61, 158–159, 287–288, 346–351, 353, 365–366, 381

  suspicion in, 177–179

  as a symbol of government, 6, 68

  treason in, 59

  water supply, 14, 226

  Washington Artillery of Pottsville, 71–72

  Washington Daily Chronicle, 332, 387, 398, 403, 404, 420, 463, 468, 472, 491, 499

  Washington Evening Star, 34, 45, 51, 53, 58, 67, 84, 90, 93, 95, 104, 105, 106, 116, 122, 130, 131, 134, 157, 179, 217, 219, 223, 225, 234, 249, 255, 273, 274, 292, 298, 299, 301, 309, 313, 314, 317, 322, 323, 324, 327, 328, 332, 335, 339, 340, 346, 371, 377, 396, 399, 408, 435, 440, 441, 442, 445, 451, 457, 464, 465, 474, 491, 499, 500

  Washington, Fort, 16, 32, 144

  Washington, George, 2, 16, 24, 252

  Greenough statue of, 7

  Mills statue of, 8

  Washington Light Infantry, 33, 65

  Washington Monument, 8, 87, 102, 289

  Washington National Intelligencer, 42, 52, 76, 92, 105, 202, 305, 333, 426, 463, 481

  Washington National Republican, 92, 170, 295, 301, 303, 332, 441, 464

  Washington Rifles, 66

  Washington Sunday Morning Chronicle (later Daily Chronicle), 200, 339, 340, 342, 343, 395, 445, 451

  Washington Territory, 284

  Washington Theatre, 14, 61, 131, 342–343, 445, 462

  Watson, Peter H., 180, 183, 340

  Watt, John, 349, 368–371

  Ways and Means, Committee on, 109

  Webb, James Watson, 144, 170, 323, 325

  Weed, Thurlow, 30–31, 44, 54–55, 126, 544

  Weichmann, Louis, 449, 460, 463, 473, 476, 491, 506, 554–555

  Welles, Edgar, 247

  Welles, Gideon, 48, 66, 73, 89, 96, 162, 163, 164, 212, 216, 218, 221, 243, 247, 248, 274, 286, 289–290, 306, 311, 318, 338, 347, 349, 375, 376, 386, 391, 415, 452, 454, 487, 488, 490, 496, 498, 555

  Welsh, Mary, 335

  West, Department of, 112

  West Point, 2, 25, 35, 50, 58, 84, 110, 115, 116, 159, 205, 222, 229, 243, 384, 414

  West Virginia, Department of, 407

  Whig Party, 3

  White House, 6–8, 14, 88, 100, 150, 159, 162, 201, 247, 279–280, 289, 308, 350, 352, 356, 406–407, 433, 437

  depredations on, 441, 456–457

  guarded against attack, 71

  renovation of, 356, 362–364

  White House Landing, 212, 216, 403

  White, Mrs. Clement, 57, 380

  White Oak Swamp, 217

  Whitman, Walt, 132, 281–283, 394, 555

  Wide Awakes, 24

  Wigfall, Senator, 25, 29, 54, 59

  Wikoff, Henry, 358–359, 368–369, 371

  Wilkes, Captain, 151

  Willard’s Hotel, 5, 10–11, 36, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 71, 72, 77, 90, 91, 99, 120, 126, 132, 135, 142, 150, 159, 216, 219, 227, 235, 236, 245, 275, 335, 351, 376, 385, 388, 394, 451, 473, 474, 481, 487, 512

  Williamsburg, 212, 213, 253

  Willis, N. P., 357

  Wilmington, 440, 464

  Wilson, Henry, 23, 25, 108, 117, 124, 127, 140, 170, 172, 210, 401, 531, 555–556

  Winchester, 111, 160, 206, 251, 432

  Federals routed at, 215

  Federals victorious at, 430

  Winder’s Building, 6, 15, 154, 387

  Winthrop, Theodore, 81–82, 85, 89, 100, 102–103, 106–107

  Women

  discrimination against, in wages, 339

  emergence of, 265–266

  freedom of, in Washington, 17

  in hospital service, 260–262

  Wood, Fernando, 347, 382

  Wood, Robert C., 59

  Wood, William P., 166, 180–183, 187, 191–194, 467, 556

  detective system of, 182

  Wood, W. S., 352, 364, 370

  Wool, John E., 3, 51, 54, 70, 114, 248, 546, 556

  Worcester Spy, 270

  Wormley, 1, 158, 216, 274, 436

  Wounded, care of, 128, 132, 234, 239, 244, 255–259, 262–271, 275–278, 397–402

  Wright, Horatio, 417–418, 422–423, 426, 493

  Yorktown, 106, 206, 208, 210, 211, 224

  Confederate evacuation of, 212

  Young Men’s Christian Association, 15, 88, 257, 269, 295, 474

  Zouaves; see Chicago Zouaves and Fire Zouaves