Part 26
Little Rock, George B. Rose on, 537-556; physiography of the region, 537-539; original inhabitants, 539-541; early visits of white men, 541; made capital of the Territory, 544; growth, 544-547; leaders of, 548-552; Civil War, 552; later history, 553
Liverpool & Manchester R. R., 278
Lloyd house, 63
Lobb, Captain, 239
Locke, John, 254
Loftus, Major, 345
London, Yorktown trade with, 187
Long Island, battle of, 26
Longstreet, General, besieges Knoxville, 470-472
Louis XIV., 332
Louisiana, 207, 346, 417; naming of, 331; cession of, 352, 428, 542; acquires Statehood, 430; _see also_ New Orleans
Louisiana artillery, 374
Louisville, Lucien V. Rule on, 503-535; the site, 503; distinguished citizens, 504-506; historic significance, 506-509; founding of, 509-514; Irving’s description, 514-516; visitors to, 517-520; immigration, 520; Charles Dickens at, 521; George Keats, 522-530; Civil War, 532
Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston R. R. Co., xxi
Lucas, Colonel, 276
Lucas, Eliza, 276
Luckett, William, 83
Ludlow, Noah M., 363
Lyell, Sir Charles, 273
Lynch, Thos., Jr., 270
Lyon, David, 83
M
Maclean, Archibald, 236, 242
Macon, Ga., xxv
Macready at Mobile, 363
Madison, Dolly, 131
Madison, James, and L’Enfant, 120; at Washington, 131, 134; quoted, 109, 165
Madison, Rev. James, 214
Maffitt, Captain, 366, 368
Magna Charta, 204
Maison Quarrée, 164, 165
Malbone, Edward, 275
Maldonado, 330
Manassas, first battle of, 323
Maney, General, 498
Manigault, Gabriel, 271, 274
Marchand, 340
Marlborough, 259
Marquette, 331
Marshall, John, 165, 168, 214; house of, 171-173; at trial of Aaron Burr, 174
Marshall, Mary Willis Ambler, 172
Martian, Nicholas, 187
Martin, Governor, 241
Martin, Luther, 40
_Martin Chuzzlewit_, 521
Maryland, 101-103; and the national capital, 108; _see also_ Annapolis, Baltimore, Frederick
Maryland Historical Society, 11, 26, 44
Mason, George, 204
Massachusetts Bay, Puritan landing at, 249
Massacre Island, 332
_Maubila_, 328
Maury, D. H., defends Mobile, 374
Maury, M. F., 181
Maybrick, Mrs., 362
Maynard, Horace, 467-469
Maynard, Washburn, 468
Mayo, Capt. Isaac, 70
Mayo, Major, 156
McClellan, General, xxix, 188, 216
McClung, Capt. P., 469
McCrady, Gen. E., quoted, 254, 273
McCulloh, H. E., 227
McDuffie, Governor, xxi, xxii
McGillivray, 340
McIntosh, Gen. Lachlan, 296, 318
McKinley, President, 320
McLaw, 471
McMahon, Hon. John V. L., 44
McNutt, Governor, 440
Meigs, M. C., quoted, 283
Meldrim, Hon. P. W., quoted, 298
_Memoirs_, Moultrie’s, 266
Memphis, 335
Menefee, Mrs. E., 531
Menendez, 559-567, 572
Menendez, Don Pedro, 568
Mercie’s statue of Lee, 178
_Mercury_, the Charleston, xxvii
_Merrimac_, the, 187
Mexico, 146, 331, 346; St. Denis visits, 335; war with, 398, 504, 549; gold mines of, 415
“Middle Plantation,” 190
Middleton, Arthur, 270
Mignot, Louis R., 275
Milledge, Governor, 311
Miller, Wm. K., xxviii
Milliken’s Bend, 442
_Minden_, the, 37
Minge, James, 191
Mississippi, territorial government of, organized, 437; _see also_ Vicksburg
Mississippi Bubble, Law’s, 336
Mississippi River, 329; French and the, 334; De Soto and the, 413, 414; and the treaty of 1763, 422; and the great West, 426
Moale, John, 6-8, 11
Mobile, xxx, 417, 434; Peter J. Hamilton on, 327-378; historic background, 327-332; early settlements, 332-338; character of early, 339, 340; the English drive out the French, 342-346; the Spanish era, 347-352; becomes American, 352-354; in the War of 1812, 354-356; American development, 356-364; in the Civil War, 364-375; in recent times, 375-378
Mobile & Ohio R. R., 361
Mohawks, 478
Mon Louis Island, 341
Monacans, 102
Monahoacs, 102
Monnokasi, 77
Monocacy, 76; battle at, 141
Monockessy, 77
Monroe, President, 165, 180, 320, 492, 516; at William and Mary College, 207; at Louisville, 531; orders troops into Florida, 577
Montezuma, 306
Montgomery, xix, 553; George Petrie on, 379-410; origin of, 380-384; the early settlement described, 384-386; visit of Lafayette, 388-390; social and economic history, 390-395; State capital moved to, 396; the war with Mexico, 398; influence of Yancey, 399-405; capital of the Confederacy, 407; inauguration of President Davis, 408; after-days, 409
Montgomery, Lemuel, 383
Montgomery, Richard, 384
Montgomery, Sir Robt., quoted, 299, 301
Montgomery R. R., 393
Monticello, 311
Montrose, 343, 346, 350, 368
Monumental Church, Richmond, 170
Moore, Arthur, 380
Moore, Francis, 303
Moore, Governor, 574
Moore, Maurice, 232
Moore, Roger, 233
Moore, Tom, quoted, 104, 131, 146
Moravians in Georgia, 305
More, Hannah, 316
Morris Island, 282
Moss, Major, 174
Moultrie, Gen. W., quoted, 266, 286
Mound-builders, the, 478
Mount Clare, 18
Mount Olivet, 498
Mount Vernon, 125, 330, 492
Mowatt, Mrs., 363
Murfreesboro, battle of, 496
Murphy’s Circulating Library, 33
Murray, Hon. C. A., quoted, 268
Muse, Col. H., quoted, 212
N
Nacochtank, 101
_Nahant_, the, 324
Nanipacna, 330
Napoleon I., 357
Napoleon III., 273
Narvaez, 329
Nash, General, 484
Nashborough, 484
Nashville, xxx, 450, 462, 474; Gates P. Thruston on, 477-501; prehistoric times, 477-479; founding of, 479-483; naming of, 484; the founder, 485; Indian attacks, 486-489; Nashborough becomes Nashville, 489; visit of Lafayette, 490; Andrew Jackson in, 491-494; the home of James K. Polk, 494; becomes capital of Tennessee, 494; Civil War, 495-498; recent history, 498-501
Natchez, 353; settlement of, 433
Natchez Indians, 340
“Nat Turner Insurrection,” 170
Naval Academy, U. S., 68-72
Nelson, Thos. A. R., 468
Neufchâtel, liturgy of, 291
Newbern, N. C., 223, 228, 233
Newburyport, Mass., 311
Newport, Capt., at Jamestown, 154
Newport News, 188
Newport, U. S. Naval Academy removed to, 70
New Mexico, 478
New Orleans, xvi, xix, xxx, xxxii, 338, 342, 346, 352, 358, 434, 436, 517; Grace King on, 411-431; background of, 411-413; De Soto’s explorations, 413; La Salle’s scheme, 414-416; Iberville’s Success, 416; Bienville’s work, 416-418; growth of, 418-422; Spain acquires, 423-427; French re-acquire, 428; ceded to United States, 428; battle of New Orleans, 430; the city to-day, 430
New Philadelphia, 380
Newton, N. C., 235
New York, xvi, xx, 269; Dutch settlement of, 249; and the national capital, 108
Nicholson, Capt. James, 22
Nicholson, Gov. Francis, 194
“None Such,” 155
North America, discovery of, 151
North Carolina, 449, 489; cedes Western lands, 451; _see also_ Wilmington
North Point, British attack on, 37
Northwest Territory, 511
Nott’s _Types of Mankind_, 362
O
Oconostota, quoted, 486
Ogle, Governor, 62
Oglethorpe, Gen. James E., at Savannah, 294, 296, 302, 306, 307, 310, 315, 324, 575
Ohio River, French occupy, 335
Ohio Valley, 510 _ff._
Oliver, the stamp distributor, 197
O’Malley, Charles J., quoted, 534
_Oneida_, the, 368
Opechancanough, 190
Ordinance of 1787, 437
Orleans College, 358
Orleans, Duke of, 418
_Orleans_, the, 517
O’Reilly and New Orleans, 424
Orton House, 232
Oyster Point, settlements on, 252
P
Paca homestead, the, 62
Pacquereau, Captain, 258
Page, General, 366, 372
Panuco, 329
Paris, 170; Treaty of, 422
Parker, Sir Peter, besieges Charleston, 264, 290
Parliament, Act of 1748, 276
“Patawomeke,” 102
Paulding, James K., 516
Peabody, George, 500
Peabody Institute, 44
Peabody Normal College, 500
Peach Bottom, and site for national capital, 108
_Peggy Stewart_, burning of the, 63, 65
Pelham Cadets, 371
Pelham, Peter, 214
Pemberton, General, at Vicksburg, 435, 443, 444
Pendleton, Edmund, and the Williamsburg Convention, 201, 202
Penn, Wm., 21, 124, 572
Pensacola, 333, 336, 344, 347, 371
Percy, Commodore, attacks Fort Bowyer, 355
Perier, 340
Peter the Great, 340
Peterborough, Lord, 158
Petigru, James L., quoted, 291
Petrovich, Alexis, 340
Petrie, George, on Montgomery, xix, 379-410
Phi Beta Kappa Society organized, 207
Philadelphia, xvi, 21, 87, 269; and the Continental Congress, 106, 203; and the Convention of 1787, 201; and the national capital, 108, 114, 126; compared with Charleston in 1796, 267
_Philip and Charles_, the, 11
Philippines, 196
Phillips, Philip, 362
Pickens, Governor, 388
Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg, 472
Piedmontese, the, in Ga., 306
Pierce, Franklin, 140
Pike, Albert, 547, 548, 552
Pilgrims at Plymouth, 154, 557
Pillans, Engineer, 369
Pinckney, C. C., 270, 276
Pinckney, Thos., 270, 276
Pinkney, Wm., 40
Piñeda in Florida, 329
Pittsburg, 511, 517, 518, 521
Placide, H., 363
Plains of Abraham, 342
Plymouth, 154, 300, 331, 558
Pocahontas, 101, 153, 159
Poe, David, 25
Poe, E. A., xxvii, 25, 174
Poe, Mrs. David, 25
Polk, James K., 70, 140, 492; at Nashville, 492, 494; tomb of, 495
Polytechnic Society, Louisville, 531
Pompeii, 249
Pont Chatooga, 342
Pope, Alexander, 316
Pope, F., vision of, 104, 105, 147
Pope, Warden, 531
Porcher, 273
Port Bill, the, 21
Port Hudson, 441
Port Royal, S. C., 249, 250, 572
_Port Royall_, the, 250, 251
_Postboy_, the New York, 83
Potomac and the national capital, 110, 111, 114, 116
Pott, Dr. John, 190
Powhatan, 101, 146, 152, 155
Pratt, Enoch, 44
Prentice, George D., 505, 532
Prentiss, S. S., 440, 490
Presbyterians in Knoxville, 449
Price, Thomas, 83
Princeton College, 208
Prioleau, 290
Privateers, Baltimore, 38
Provost, Gen. A., besieges Charleston, 266
Pueblo Builders, 478
Pulaski, 25, 294, 299, 303, 318-320
Purchas, Rev. Samuel, 153
Puritans, 249, 312
Purviance, 22
Pushmataha, 355
Q
Quapaws, 539, 540
Quebec, 334, 384
Queen Anne, 61, 158
Quincy, Josiah, 244, 267; quoted, 259
Quitman, General, 398
R
Rains, General, 498
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 152, 219, 259, 331
Ramsay, Allan, 274
Ramsey, Doctor, quoted, 486
Randall house, 63
Randolph, Edmund, 201
Randolph, John, 165, 180, 512
Randolph, Peyton, 199
Randolph, Richard, 159
Randolph, Wm., 159
Randolph-Macon College, 208
Ravenel, Dr. St. Julien, discovers commercial value of phosphate deposits in South Carolina, 279
Ravenels, the, 273
Raymond, John T., 363
_Ready Money_, 392
_Red Gauntlet_, the, 366
Reeves, Lieutenant, 28
_Republican_, the Montgomery, 383
Revolution, American, Southern cities in, _see_ individual cities
Rhett, Lieutenant-Colonel, defends Charleston, 231, 256
Rhyner, Mr., 288
Ribaut, Captain Jean, 249, 560-564
Rice, cultivation of, in the South, xvii, 277
Richmond, xxvi, xxvii, xxix, 206, 409; Wm. Wirt Henry on, 151-183; site discovered by Captain John Smith, 154; founded by Col. W. E. Byrd, 156; Act of Virginia legislature in 1742, 158; St. John’s Church, 159; incorporated in 1782, 162; the Capitol, 164-170; The Marshall house, 171-173; the Swan tavern, 174; the Valentine Museum, 175; The Civil War, 176-178
Ridgely, Charles, 15
Ridout, John, house of, 64
Rives, Amélie, 377
Roanoke Island, colony on, 152
Robertson, Colonel, takes possession of Mobile, 342
Robertson, Harrison, 534
Robertson, James, 450, 490, 501; at Nashville, 479, 481-485, 487
Robespierre, 93
Robin, the Abbé, 16
Rogers, Randolph, 168
Romans’s expedition, 344
Rome, 104-106
Rose, George B., on Little Rock, 537-556
Rose, Rev. Robert, 159
Rosecrans, General, 498
Rose Hill, 86
Ross, General, 134, 136
Ross, Rev. Doctor, 95
Roulstone, George, 457
Rule, Lucien V., on Louisville, 503-535
Russell’s _Magazine_, xxvii
Russia, 340
Rutledge, Hugh, 270
Rutledge, John, 270
Ryan, Father, 377
S
St. Anne’s Church, Annapolis, 53, 54
St. Augustine, xvi, xxix, 256; G. R. Fairbanks on, 557-581; settled and laid out by Menendez, 559-566; burned by Drake, 567-570; rebuilt, 570; captured by Captain Davis, 571; captured by Governor Moore, 574; invested by Oglethorpe, 575; ceded to England, 576; restored to Spain, 577; United States acquires, 577; in Civil War, 578; recent improvements, 580
St. Cecilia Society, Charleston, 260, 290
St. Charles Royal Hospital, 425
St. Denis, explorations of, 335, 338
St. Francis, order of, 571
St. James’s Church, Wilmington, N. C., 244
St. John’s Church, Richmond, 159-161
St. John’s College, Annapolis, 55, 56
St. John’s Parish, Ga., 312
St. Lawrence, French occupy the, 331
St. Louis, 413, 542
St. Mary’s, Md., 1, 53
St. Mary’s Church, Annapolis, 66
St. Mary’s County, Md., 5
St. Mémin, 275
St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, 287, 288, 291
St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore, 11
St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, 225, 226
St. Philip’s Church, Brunswick, N. C., 233
St. Philip’s Church, Charleston, 254, 255, 286-288
St. Stanislaus, order of, 273
Salem, N. C., 222
Salzburgers, the, in Ga., 79, 297, 305
San Domingo, revolution in, 32
San Jacinto, battle of, 491
San Marco, Castle of, 571, 575, 576, 581
Sands, Captain, 364
Santa Anna, 395
_Santee_, the, 72
Saunders, Colonel, 469
Savannah, xxx; Pleasant A. Stovall on, 293-325; early settlements, 293-298; Oglethorpe’s colony, 300-306; Tomochichi, 306-308; Wesley, 308-310; Whitefield, 310; the Revolution, 311-320; the Civil War, 322-324
_Savannah_, the, 320, 325
Saxe-Weimar, Duke of, 358
Sayle, Gov. Wm., 250 _ff._
Schley, Thomas, 77
Schultz, Henry, xxviii
Scotch-Irish, in Tennessee, 449, 450
Scott, Gen. Winfield, 118; at William and Mary College, 208
Sebastopol, siege of, 280
Secession, Act of, 165
Seibels, Col. J. J., 398
Selooe, 562
Seminole War, 578
Semmes, Raphael, 364, 366
Seven Years’ War, the, 342
Sevier, Ambrose H., 548-550
Sevier, John, 450, 479, 485; and the battle of Etowah, 461; made governor of Tennessee, 462
Shafer, Sara Andrew, on Annapolis, 47-73; on Frederick Town, 75-99
Shaftesbury, the eighth Lord, 254
Sharkey, Judge W. L., 440
Sharpe, Governor, quoted, 12, 14, 16, 21
Shelby, Evan, 480
Shelby, Isaac, 479
Shepherd, Alexander R., and the city of Washington, 144
Sherman, Gen. W. T., xxx, 498; at Charleston, 288; captures Savannah, 324
Shields, General, 398
Shockoe’s Creek, 156
Silk culture in Ga., 304
Silk Hope plantation, 257
Silsbee, N., 141
Simms, Wm. Gilmore, xxvii, 273; quoted, 264, 288
Simrall, H. F., on Vicksburg, 433-447
Sioussat, St. George L., on Baltimore, 1-45
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, 40
_Sketch Book_, Irving’s, 522
Slavery, negro, introduced into Florida, 572
Slocum, at Red Fort, 374
Slough, Mayor, surrenders Mobile to Federal forces, 375
Smallwood, General, 26
Smith, Capt. John, 48, 102, 152-155
Smith, Capt. Samuel, 26
Smith, Dr. John Lawrence, 273
Smith, Gov. Thomas, 277
Smith, Joseph, 83
Smith, Robert H., 362
Smith, Sol., 363
Snowden, Yates, on Charleston, xx, 249-292
Somers, Sir George, 151
South America, Spanish in, 331
South Carolina, _see_ Charleston
South Carolina College, 208
South Carolina Railroad Co., xx
South Mountain, battle of, 94
_Southern Literary Messenger_, xxvii
_Southern Review_, xxvii, 272
Southwest Territory, 451, 454
_Souvenirs of Travels_, Le Vert’s, 362
Spain, and War of 1742, 297; in the West Indies, 328; claims of, in United States, 334; acquires Florida, 347; acquires New Orleans, 423-427; in the Mississippi Valley, 433, 436; _see also_ Mobile, New Orleans, St. Augustine
Spanish, destroy Port Royal Colony, 250; attack Charleston, 256-258; in Georgia, 302; at Mobile, 329, 330, 331, 336; at Pensacola, 332; at New Orleans, 346, 423-427; Burr’s flight to the, 353; _see also_ Spain
Sparks, Jared, quoted, 34
Speed, John Gilmer, 525
Spencer, settles in Kentucky, 479
Spotswood, Governor, 196, 210
Spring Hill Redoubt, 294, 318
Stagg, Charles, 211
Stamp Act, 82, 83, 196, 199, 206, 238
Stanhope, 259
Stansberry, Mrs., 288
Stanton, E. M., 283
_Statesman_, the London, quoted, 136
Steele, in attack on Spanish Fort, 372
Steele, General, captures Little Rock, 553
Stephenson, George, 278
Stevenson, Dr. Henry, 12, 18
Stevenson, Dr. John, 12, 14
“Stevenson’s Folly,” 18
Stewart, Anthony, 63
Stewart, Doctor, 88
Stewart, George N., 362
Stewart, Peggy, house of, 64
Stiles, President Ezra, quoted, 201
Stone, Governor, 52, 59, 109
Stovall, P. A., on Savannah, 293-325
Strawbridge, Robert, establishes Methodism in Md., 82
Stuart, David, 122
Stuart, Gilbert, 274, 531
Sullivan’s Island, 256
_Sumter_, the, 366
Sunbury, Ga., 296, 312, 313
_Susan Constant_, the, 151
Susquehanna, the, and the national capital, 111
Susquehannoghs, the, 56, 76
“Swamp Angel,” the, 282
_Swan_, the, 366
Swan Tavern, Richmond, 174
T
Tampico, 329
Taney, R. B., 60; at Frederick, 92
Tarleton, Colonel, 84
Taylor, Hannis, 377
Taylor, Zachary, 504, 530, 532
Tazewell, John, 201
Teach, 230, 231
Teasdale, John, 277
_Tecumseh_, the, 370
Tennessee, _see_ Knoxville and Nashville
Tennessee Historical Society, 482
_Tennessee_, the, 369, 371
Tennessee, University of, 458, 459, 474
Tennyson, quoted, 507
Tensaws, the, 341
_Terra Mariæ_, 51, 75
Texas, xxvi, 207, 332, 335, 395
Thackeray, W. M., 78; quoted, 182
Theus, 274
Thomas, Gen., xxx, 497, 498
Thompson, John R., 168, 180
Thorington, Col. John H., 391
Thornton, Dr. Wm., and the Capitol at Washington, 121
Throckmorton, Major, and Charles Dickens, 522
Thruston, Gates P., on Nashville, 477-501
Ticknor, Captain, 395, 398
_Times_, the London, quoted, 468
Timrod, Henry, xxvii, 273, 274, 288
“Tippecanoe and Tyler too” campaign, 395
Tobacco, cultivation of, in the South, xvii
Toleration Act of 1649 in Va., 51, 52
Tolstoy, xxx
Tomochichi, 306-308
Tondee’s tavern, 319
Tonty, 334
Tories sentenced at Frederick, 85
Torpedo, the, in naval warfare, 280
Townsend, George Alfred, quoted, 1
Tragabigzanda, 154
Traille, Major, 287
Trapnall, Frederick W., 548, 552
“Traveller,” 178
Treaty, of Ghent, 356; of Paris in 1763, 422; of 1783, 347; of 1791 with the Cherokees, 454, 458; of 1795 with Spain, 437
Tree, Ellen, 363
Trent, W. P., Introduction xv-xxxiii
Trenton, Congress at, 108
Tripoli, war with, 71
Troop, Capt. Robert, 105
_True Relation_, Smith’s, quoted, 154
Tryon, Governor, 228, 233, 238
Tuscaloosa, Alabama capital removed from, 396, 397
Tuscarora, 76
Twining, Thomas, quoted, 124
Tyler, John, Sr., 200, 201
Tyler, Lyon G., on Williamsburg, 185-217
Tyler, President John, 140, 180, 214; at William and Mary College, 207
Tybee Island, 317, 318, 323, 324
Tyndall, 272
_Types of Mankind_, Dr. Nott’s 362
U
Ursulines Convent, New Orleans, 420, 421, 425
University of Maryland, 33
University of Pennsylvania, 208
University of Virginia, 208
V
Valangin, liturgy of, 291
Valentine, E. V., 175, 176
Valentine, Mann S., 275
Valentine Museum, 175
Valley Forge, 85
Van Buren, Martin, 464, 492
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, endows Vanderbilt University, 498
Vanderbilt University, 500
Vanderlip, Frank A., on Washington, 101-150
Van Scheliha, 369
Vaudreuil, 341
Vick, Wm., 438
Vicksburg, xxx; H. F. Simrall on, 433-447; late origin of, 433-438; description of, 438-440; siege of, 440-447
Vincennes, G. R. Clark captures, 510, 514
Vine and Olive Company, the, 357
Vining, Thomas, 111, 112
_Viper_, the, 239, 240
Virginia, and the national capital, 108, 116; gives bust of Lafayette to France, 173; English colonization of, 249; legislature of, and Louisville, 514; _see also_ Richmond and Williamsburg.
W
Waddell, Hugh, 238, 239
Wagner, massacre of, 284
Wakefield, Ala., 353
Walker, Percy, 361
Wallace, Gen. Lew, defends Washington, 141
Walnut Hills, Vicksburg, 433, 438
Walter’s _Flora Caroliniana_, 272
War of 1812, Southern cities in, _see_ individual cities
War, the Civil, _see_ individual cities
War Office, U. S., 126
Warrenton, Mississippi, 433
Washburn, Rev. Cephas, 544
Washington, City of, xxix; F. A. Vanderlip on, 101-150; prediction of, 103-106; selection of site, 106-115; Washington’s influence, 115-119; Act of 1790, 116; planning of, 119; naming of, 120; the Capitol, 121; the White House, 125; seat of government removed to, 126; agitation for removal of capital, 130; War of 1812, 131-136; rebuilding, 137; ante-bellum days, 138-141; the Civil War, 141; the reforms of Shepherd, 142-146
Washington, George, 85, 87, 101, 150, 168, 303, 340, 492; in Baltimore, 24; at Annapolis, 59, 72; at Frederick, 96; in French and Indian War, 78-80, 85; quoted, 80, 148; nominated to command of Continental armies, 87; and the genesis of Washington City, 103-119; lays corner-stone of Capitol, 122; retirement of, 125; Houdon’s statue of, 165; Crawford’s statue of, 166, 167; in Richmond, 173; at Yorktown, 187; at Williamsburg, 196, 214; in Charleston, 286; in Savannah, 299, 320, 325; and William Blount, 452, 453
Washington, Wm. A., 84
Washington College, Pa., 208
Washington Monument, the, 36, 44
Watauga, settlement of, 450, 479, 480, 484, 486
Watters’s Battery, 364
Watterson, Henry, 506, 534
Watkins, George C., 548
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, at Savannah, 318
Weatherford, 355
Webster, Daniel, xxiii, 140, 141, 464; quoted, 117
_Weehawken_, the, 324
Wegg, Atty.-Gen. E. R., 343
Weld’s _Travels_, 214
Wellington, xxx, 132; in Spain, 357
Wells, W. C., _Theory of Dew_, 272
Wesley, John, in Georgia, 298, 308-310
Wesley Monumental Church, Savannah, 310
West, Benjamin, 274
West, Joseph, 252
West Florida, 344, 346, 352
Westminster Abbey, 271
Whetstone Point, Md., 6, 11, 22
White and the national capital, 115
White House, the, 125, 126, 482; of the Confederacy, 178, 179
White, Hugh L., 463-465
White, James, founds Knoxville, 449, 451, 452
Whitefield, George, in Georgia, 287, 298, 308, 310, 311
“White’s Fort,” 451
Whitney and the cotton-gin, 298, 306
Whittier, 98
Wilkinson, Gen. James, takes Mobile, 352, 353
William III., 54, 57
William and Mary College, 194, 199, 201, 206-208, 214-216; _see also_ Williamsburg
William of Orange, 61
Williamsburg, xxix, 162, 296; Lyon G. Tyler on, 185-217; its site, 185-188; settlement of, 190; Bacon’s Rebellion, 191; capital removed to, 194; before the Revolution, 196-201; the Convention of 1776, 201-204; capital removed to Richmond, 206; William and Mary College, 206-208; social life in, 208-213; the Civil War, 215; since the war, 216
Williamson, Hugh, 228
Wills, Rev. John, 233
Wilmington, N. C., xxx; Bishop J. B. Cheshire on, 219-247; physical background, 219-222; neighboring towns, 223-234; founding of, 234; early history, 235-238; resists Stamp Act, 238-240; in the Revolution, 240-244; in the Civil War, 244-247
Wilson, Alexander, 504, 518
Wilson, Augusta Evans, 376, 377
Winder, General, at Bladensburg, 132
_Winona_, the, 368
Wirt, Wm., quoted, 174
Wise, Henry A., 168
Wolseley, Lord, on the siege of Charleston, 280
Woodbine, 355
Woodward, Captain, quoted, 380, 388
Wragg, Wm., 271
Wright, General, 315
Wright, Gov. Sir J., 294, 312
Wright’s Ferry and the national capital, 108
Wythe, George, 160, 213, 214
Y
Yale College, 208
Yancey at Montgomery, 379, 399-404, 408
Yarborough, John W., xxviii
Yeamans, Sir John, 229, 231, 251
Yell, Archibald, 548
Yerger, Senator George, 440
York, Pa., 10, 11
Yorktown, xix, 24, 165, 186, 188, 244, 299
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Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild, 276
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Transcriber’s note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Hyphenation, italicization, and spelling of proper names have been standardized.
In the original, the caption of the Frontispiece was on the following page. Here it is placed directly under the illustration.
In this version, the illustrations are placed differently on the page than in the original.
Page number references in the index are as published in the original publication and have not been checked for accuracy in this eBook.
Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes:
Page ix: “PROVINCIAL FORCES 6” “PROVINCIAL FORCES 9” Page 67: “Royal, Republican,” “Royal, Republicans,” Page 107: “City was indentified with” “City was identified with” Page 122: “which the Commisioners” “which the Commissioners” Page 138: “with woful languor” “with woeful languor” Page 220: “Immmediately in its front” “Immediately in its front” Page 273: “and icthyologist” “and ichthyologist” Page 275: “300 portraits dur a” “300 portraits during a” Page 300: “But it w reserved” “But it was reserved” Page 386: “the vocifferous patriot” “the vociferous patriot” Page 397: “was ready in in the fall” “was ready in the fall” Page 530: “contents was discharged” “contents were discharged” Page 558: “siempre fiel cuidad” “siempre fiel ciudad”