Union armies, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, bm1.1, bm1.2
blacks in, 8.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
uniforms of, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, nts.1
see also Army, U.S.; specific units
“Union Drama, Anderson and Patriots at Sumter in ’61,” 4.1
U.S. National Observatory, 9.1
U.S. Zouave Cadets, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Utah, 6.1, 6.2
Vallandigham, Clement, 3.1
Van Buren, Martin, 2.1, nts.1
Verdi, Giuseppe, 4.1
Vermont, 8.1
Victoria, Queen of England, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
Virginia, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, nts.1
fugitives in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7
legislature of, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2
secession of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, nts.1
“Virginia Union Volunteers,” 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
“Voices of the Contrabands” (Winthrop), 8.1, 8.2
volunteers, 5.1
Lincoln’s calls for, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
see also specific regiments
voting rights, of blacks, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, bm1.1, nts.1
Wade, Benjamin, 2.1, 7.1
Walden (Thoreau)
Walker, William, 6.1
Walter, Thomas U.
War Department, U.S., prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2
Fortress Monroe and, 8.1
Sumter and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
War of 1812, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
“Washers of the Shroud, The” (Lowell), 2.1
Washington, D.C., prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1
defense of, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1
feeling of siege in, 7.1, 7.2
fire in, 7.1
foreign visitors in, 2.1, 2.2, nts.1
Great Comet in, 9.1
hotels in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
Independence Day in, 9.1
Lincoln’s inauguration in, 3.1
Lincoln’s undignified entry into, 3.1
militia units in, 2.1, 3.1
National Eating House in, 2.1, 2.2, nts.1
New York Fire Zouaves in, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Old Gentlemen in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
Peace Conference in (1861), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, nts.1
slavery in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1
Washington, George, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
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’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
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