Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction (114 page)

Vermont,
461

Vesey, Denmark,
36

Vest, George,
363

Vicksburg, Mississippi,
211–13
,
345
,
346
,
346
,
353–54
,
356
,
424
,
434
,
438

Virginia,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
11
,
16
,
20
,
22
,
23
,
25
,
29
,
32
,
34
,
36
,
39
,
41
,
43
,
46–47
,
50
,
120
,
131
,
144
,
146
,
161
,
163
,
171
,
194
,
317
,
323
,
301
,
335–36
,
338
,
339
,
340
,
342
,
345
,
363
,
364
,
366
,
370
,
381
,
393
,
400
,
410
,
412
,
421
,
423
,
463
,
467
,
469
,
474
,
491
,
492
,
498

Virginia Military Institute,
166
,
364

vivandiére
,
394

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet),
13
,
14

Volunteers,
143
,
148
,
202
,
255–56
,
261

Volunteers: and Confederate regiments

21st Alabama,
253
,
272

24th Alabama

1st Arkansas,
233

2nd Florida,
428

3rd Georgia,
152
,
334

19th Louisiana,
152
,
207
,
270
,
441

16th North Carolina,
275
,
479

18th North Carolina,
393

23rd North Carolina,
396

37th North Carolina,
334

1st South Carolina Rifles,
233

2nd South Carolina,
238

3rd Virginia,
240

28th Virginia,
239

33rd Virginia,
275

Volunteers: and Union regiments

5th Connecticut,
248

29th Connecticut,
184

21st Kentucky,
273

14th Illinois,
248

8th Iowa,
272

5th Maine,
410

8th Maine,
502

17th Maine,
240

20th Maine,
344
,
479

6th Massachusetts,
144

11th Massachusetts,
276

13th Massachusetts,
242

19th Massachusetts,
239
,
252

20th Massachusetts,
235
,
237
,
535

44th Massachusetts,
234

54th Massachusetts,
184
,
420
,
530
(attack on Battery Wagner [1863],
380–81
,
389
,
406
)

55th Massachusetts,
184
,
419

1st Michigan,
267

3rd Michigan,
395

24th Michigan,
235
,
240
,
246

125th Michigan,
394

1st Minnesota,
266

2nd New Hampshire,
266

9th New Hampshire,
273

9th New York,
247

19th New York,
234

39th New York (“Garibaldi Guard”),
242

51st New York,
253
,
263

64th New York,
394

79th New York,
143

121st New York,
241

132nd New York,
384

154th New York,
262
,
267

7th Ohio,
261

11th Ohio,
239

23rd Ohio,
239

45th Pennsylvania
248

72nd Pennsylvania,
143

83rd Pennsylvania,
171
,
237
,
240
,
271

114th Pennsylvania,
394

116th Pennsylvania,
261

143rd Pennsylvania,
266

1st Rhode Island,
328
,
394–395

2nd Vermont,
233

9th Vermont,
273

6th Wisconsin,
237
,
276

14th Wisconsin,
235
,
237

von Moltke, Helmuth,
201

Wade, Benjamin F.,
78
,
84
,
216
,
451
,
452
,
453
,
454
,
456
,
488–89
,
490
,
493
,
498
,
499
,
505–6

and Wade-Davis Bill,
456–457

and Wade-Davis Manifesto,
457

Wadley, William R.,
323

Wainwright, Charles S.,
244
,
245

Wainwright, Rev’d Jonathan,
42

Walker, David,
47

Walker, James,
33

Walker, Leroy Pope,
232
,
323
,
361

Walker, Mary,
401

Walker, Quok,
44

Walker, Robert J.,
114

Wallace, W. H. L.,
206

Walton, Claiborne,
273

Wanamaker, John,
523

War of 1812,
18–20
,
240
,
266

Warneford, Robert,
311

Warner, Charles Dudley,
521

Warren, Gouveneur K.,
514

Washburne, Elihu,
215–16
,
506

Washington, Booker Taliaferro,
385–86

Washington, D.C.,
267
,
305
,
307
,
313
,
342
,
343
,
351
,
382
,
383
,
397
,
421
,
422
,
426
,
430
,
432
,
433
,
437
,
448
,
451
,
449
,
483
,
488
,
492
,
499
,
501
,
531

Washington, George,
149
,
165
,
422
,
438

Washington College,
527

Washington Morning Chronicle
,
177

Waterloo, battle of (1815),
258
,
263

Wayland, Francis,
10

weapons,
248–61
,
353

and bayonet,
249
,
254–55

and “Brown Bess” musket,
249
,
254

and Colt Patent Firearms Co.,
250
,
317

and Enfield rifle,
250
,
254
,
311

and Henry repeating rifle,
251

and Lorenz rifle,
250

and Model 1861 U.S. Rifle Musket “Springfield”),
249–50

and New Haven Arms Co.,
251
,
317

and Remington,
317

and Sharps rifle,
250

and Smith & Wesson,
317

and Spencer breechloader,
250–51
,
260

See also
artillery

Webster, Daniel,
21
,
61
,
69
,
70
,
71
,
83
,
92
,
389
,
408
,
533

Weed, Thurlow,
462

Weekly Anglo–African
,
183
,
376

Welles, Gideon,
148
,
287
,
300
,
301
,
303
,
306

West Point,
23
,
63
,
146
,
148
,
151
,
160
,
165
,
194
,
197
,
200
,
206
,
256
,
328
,
347
,
360
,
437

West Virginia,
367

Wheaton College (Illinois),
523

Wheeler, Joseph,
443

“When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (song),
529

Whig Party,
18–20
,
51
,
60
,
65
,
67
,
70
,
83
,
84
,
85
,
86
,
99
,
100
,
105
,
106–7
,
113
,
122
,
187
,
216
,
218
,
231
,
284
,
413
,
451
,
455
,
471
,
503
,
518

and “internal improvements,”
84
,
187
,
231

White Boys in Blue (veterans’ organization),
523

White House, Virginia,
166

White League,
510

White, Edward Douglass,
535

Whitman, George Washington,
253
,
263
,
330
,
400
,
423

Whitman, Walt,
155
,
234
,
405
,
522
,
529
,
536

and
Democratic Vistas
,
522

and
Drum Taps
,
529

Whitney, Eli,
24

Whitney, Henry Clay,
102

Whittier, John Greenleaf,
528

Wickham, Charlotte,
340

Wickliffe, Charles,
178

Wightman, Edward King,
235
,
262
,
267
,
275
,
416

Wilcox, Cadmus,
254

Wilder, John T.,
251

Wilderness, the,
332
,
333
,
426
,
431
,
433
,
440

and battle of (1864),
428–29
,
514

Wilkes, Charles,
286–287

Wilkeson, Frank,
247
,
274
,
276
,
424
,
430
,
435