by Philip Leigh
USS Housatonic, 82
USS Monitor, 93
USS Peterhoff, 57–58
US Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase and, 24
USS Vanderbilt, 57
Van Dorn, Earl, 62
Vicksburg, xv, 56, 58, 63, 65, 74, 76–77, 79, 84, 101–102, 106, 111–112, 115
Vidaurri, Santiago, 47
Walker, Norman S., 86–87
War Department, 32, 35, 73, 78, 87, 107, 113, 119
War of 1812, 7
Washburn, Cadwallader, 64–65, 129
Washburne, Elihu, 129, 134
Washington Chronicle, acquisition of cotton in Northern states and, 21
Washington, George, 3, 128
Watterson, Harvey, 138
Weed, Thurlow, 88, 94, 130–131, 146
Weldon, William, 146
Welles, Gideon, 57, 90, 95–97, 128, 131
West Point, 101
Whigs, 9, 11–12
Whitney, Eli, 3–4
Wilkes, Charles, 57–58
Wilson, Henry, 69
Wilson, James, 106
Wisconsin State Journal, paying bribes and, 78
Wise, Stephen R., 91
Wood, Fernando, 4–5
yellow fever, 85