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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”