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
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