Webster, Daniel, xix, 13, 94, 470
Webster, Mrs. Daniel, 130
Webster, Noah, xvii
Weed, Thurlow, xxiii, 213, 256, 290, 314, 411, 424, 481, 529, 532, 546
autobiography of, 562
Bates promoted for cabinet position by, 268
Bennett’s support for war confirmed by, 304
Bigelow patronage request of, 274
death of, 562
at 1860 Republican Convention, 227, 228
Fort Lafayette inspected by, 350–51
Greeley given exclusive news by, 137
Greeley offered congressional seat by, 103
Greeley recruited by, 51–52
Greeley rumor spread by, 235
on Greeley’s ambition for spoils, 53
Greeley’s Senate bid opposed by, 277–79
Greeley’s severing of relationship with, 153–56
Herald’s anti-English diatribes and, 364
Lincoln encouraged to stay in public house before inauguration by, 287
Lincoln notified of nomination by, 234
Lincoln’s letter on secession to, 267
on Lincoln’s letter to Greeley, 402
Lincoln’s New York breakfast with, 285
Lincoln visited in Springfield by, 268
Log Cabin applauded by, 53
newspaper started by, 132–33
patronage requests of, 501–2
Raymond praised by, 145
Seward promoted for cabinet by, 267, 268
Seward’s campaign supported by, 225
spiritualism mocked by, 59
Welton’s release sought by, 484
Weekly Anglo African, 414
Weekly Tribune, 159, 206
Welles, Gideon, 492, 501, 508, 513, 527, 531–32, 536, 658
at Greeley’s lecture, 378
made secretary of the navy, 274
on peace conference, 514, 516, 517
Raymond’s fundraising disdained by, 523–24
Welles, Mary Jane, 477
Welling, James C., 307, 401, 407, 428, 487, 541, 564
Welton, Louis A., 484
Wentworth, “Long” John, 115, 143, 510
West, Department of the, 332
West, John T., 10
West, U.S.:
Douglas’s antiwar tour of, 306
extension of slavery into, 224, 264–65
newspapers in, xix, 41
reports on Civil War from, 325
see also Kansas-Nebraska Act; Popular Sovereignty
Western Press Association, 473
“What Is It?,” 253, 254
Wheeling Democrat, 273
Whig National Convention, 1848, 98
Whig Party, Illinois, Lincoln replaced by, 84–85
Whig Party, New York, 51
Whig Party, U.S., xxi, xxxi, 154
abolitionism and, 41
Bennett’s rejection of, xxvi
coining of name, 132
crumbling of, 150, 162
in election of 1840, 27
European reform supported by, 141
newspapers of, xix, 79, 106, 112–13, 116–18, 122
veto power of, 95
Whig State Central Committee, Illinois, 44
White, Horace, 179–80, 203, 309, 488, 496, 560, 644
at First Bull Run Battle, 316
on Lincoln’s relationship with Greeley, 196
White, Hugh L., 37, 582
White, James W., 391, 464, 634
White, Martha Todd, 485, 652
white people, rights of, 197
white supremacist press, xxvii
Whiting, William, 421–22
Whitman, Walt, 31, 299
Whitney, Henry Clay, 183, 603
Whitney, John Hay, 565
Wide-Awake clubs, 240, 290, 308
Wikoff, Henry, 369–71, 370
Wilcox, Orlando, 338
Wilderness, Battle of the, 474, 520
Wilkes, Charles, 362–63
Wilkes, George, 355
Wilkeson, Samuel, 325, 333, 367, 372, 389, 433–34
Wilkie, Franc Bangs, 325
Willard’s Hotel, 287–89, 289, 361, 487, 488
Williams, George Forrester, 324, 474
Williamsburg, Battle of, 386
Williamson, David Brainerd, 521
Willis, Nathaniel, 91
Wills, David, 450
Wilmer, Lambert A., 156
Wilmer, Larry A., 200
Wilmot, David, 79
Wilmot Proviso, 79, 104–5
Wilson, Charles L., 171–72
Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, 620
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of, 325, 332
Winamac, Ind., 423
Winchell, James M., 437, 471–72
Winchester, Jonas, 50
Winder, William H., 350
Windle, Mary J., 238, 610
Wing, Henry E., 474
Wisconsin State Journal, 265
Wise, Henry A., 209
Wood, Benjamin, xxiv, 345, 346–48, 350, 367, 419–20, 441, 445, 507
Wood, Fernando, xxiv, 147, 391, 481, 488, 541
New York secession advocated by, 303
reception for Lincoln held by, 285
request for respect of private property by, 303
Wood, William, 6
Worl, James N., 496
Wright, Edwin, 391
Wyoming, 72
Yates, Richard, 490, 529
YMCA, 423
Young, John Russell, xxvii, 131, 309, 327–28, 358, 413, 486, 646
at First Bull Run Battle, 316
at Gettysburg dedication, 451, 452
Young America movement, 142
Young Men’s Central Republican Union, 215
Young Men’s Lyceum, 37, 44
Zacharie, Dr. Isachar, 482
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Lincoln and the power of the press : the war for public opinion / Harold Holzer. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Relations with journalists. 2. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Journalists. 3. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Press coverage. 4. Press and politics—United States—History—19th century. 5. United States—Politics and government—1861–1865. I. Title.
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