239, 317, 319, 387, 388, 393, 406, 482; Bullion Bank fails, 44; cavalry depot near, 338; claims agency, 588; claims cases re buildings in, 128; Coast Survey "party," 226; constables, 576; construction and improvement projects, 57; contracts investi- gated, 64; court and commission records sent to, 335; crimes, 574; defenses: 253, 255, 268, construc- tion, 274-275, inspection, 354, records, 275-276, 388-389, tim- ber cleared, 270; destitute news- boys, 30; govt. 500; headquarters of: Army, 243, 394, Freedmen's Bureau, 366, Military Telegraph, 315, U. S. Christian Commission, 590, U. S. Sanitary Commission, 587; hospitals: 548, directory, 589, freedmen's, 357, in Patent Office, 557, military, 44, 552, naval, 459, payments to, 550, use disinfectant, 585; inspector of meters, 549; lamplighters, 549; marine barracks, 474; mayor's letters, 549, 568; medical care of paupers, 548; meeting place of: Alabama Claims Court of Commrs., 169, 171, 173, Army medical board, 307, 308, British-Ameri- can Joint Commission, 164, Brit- ish and American Mixed Claims Commission, 167, commission to investigate enlistment of Germans, 254, Commrs. of Claims, 594, Committee on the Treatment of Prisoners of War and Union Citi- zens, 75, flax and hemp commis- sion, 581, French-American Claims Commission, 173, military commission, 329, National Acad- emy of Sciences, 593, 594, officer examining board, 263-264, pay- master examining board, 301, Peace Convention, 32; military and post road to, 66; military prison, 322, 324; Navy paymaster, 198; photographs, 215, 272; public buildings and grounds in, 57, 549; railroad to New York City, 58, 68; superintendence of public works, 548; visits by Indians, 531, 546;
water supply, 567, 568; Winder Building, 57, 350. See also Dis- trict of Columbia, Potomac River Washington, George, steamer, 35 Washington, Treaty of, 166; papers re, 165; ratification, 164; settled other than Alabama claims, 167 Washington and Georgetown Railroad Co., 500, 549 Washington Aqueduct, D. C., 23, 500, 503; charges against official, 57; letters re, 504; Meigs in charge of, 288; photographs, 568; records, 57, 275, 567-568
Washington Arsenal, D. C., 277, 286, 287, 573, 574
Washington Canal, D. C., 23, 44 Washington County, D. C., 500 Washington Defenses Commission, 388-389
Washington Gas Light Co., 549 Washington Infirmary, 548 Washington Navy Yard, hospital, 461; lists of personnel, 444; ordnance manufacture, 467; pay increase, 56; payrolls, 472; railroads from to Georgetown, 500; records, 498; testing of inventions, 468 Washington Territory, 120; Army posts in, 409, 410; courts, 124- 125; Indian superintendency, 545, 546; Indian War claims, 194; judi- ciary appointments, 421; land do- nations: 517, claims, 524; letters, 503; mining camps, 115; records, 149; surveyor general, 526; town- ship plats, 526; volunteer regi- ments, 405
Washington University Library, Eliot papers, 589 Washington's Birthday, House Select Committee on the Celebration of,
67 Washoe County, Nev. Ter., Wassuc, U. S. S., 483 Watch logs, Boston Navy Yard, 494; New York Navy Yard, 495 Watertown Arsenal, Mass., 277, 287 Watervliet Arsenal, N. Y., 277, 286,
Watson, Gillet F., 210 Watson, Peter H., 154, 246 Wayanda, U. S. revenue cutter, 223 Wayne, James M., 81, 89 Ways and Means, House Standing Committee on, 42, 60; testimony, 214
Ways and Means, Senate Committee on, 23
Weather, data in logbooks, 463; re- ports, 585
Weather Bureau, 585
Weathergage, court decision on sla- ver upheld, 81
Webb, Alexander S., 413 Webb, William B., 576 Weber County, Utah Ter., Webster, Edwin H., 67, 68 Webster, Erastus D., 137, 154 Webster, George E., 543 Webster, Timothy, 555 Weed, Thurlow, 141, 143 Weights and measures, 594 Weights and Measures, House Stand- ing Committee on a Uniform Sys- tem of Coinage, 61
Weights and Measures Superintend- ent, Treasury Dept., 178; rec- ords, 229, 230 Welch, Will I., 450
Welfare among service men, 590 Welles, Edgar T., 445 Welles, Gideon, 28, 33, 56, 144,
396, 440, 441, 446, 450; appointed Secretary of the Navy, 440; ap- points: board to examine gunboat proposals, 456, Board to Examine Stevens Battery, 478; establishes: blockade of Southern ports, 157, boards, 474; opposes completion of Stevens battery, 479; papers, 445; portrait, 446; recommends: acceptance of League Island, 479, appointment of solicitor, 447, board on ironclads, 477, reorgan- ization, 439; requests appropria- tion for ironclads, 478
Wells, Daniel, 30
Wells, David A., 210, 211
Wells, Hezekiah G., 169, 171
Wentworth, John, 74 Wesche, Charles E., 565 Wessells, H. W., 320
West, Army in, 242; circuit courts provided for, 88; Indian: attacks, 530, lands, 542, prisoners held in, 257; information re war, 538; min- ing camps, 115
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 452, 459, 486; base, 492, 493; base at Pensacola, 496; ordnance depot, 469; records, 490-491
West Indian Squadron, 486 West Indies, 506; flying squadron in, 486; U. S. consuls report on Con- federate shipping, 159
West Point, collision of, 224 West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, N. Y., 285, 467
West Troy, N. Y., 287
West Virginia, 112, 378, 379; aboli-
tion by, 4; admission to the Union, 30, 52, 156, 420; annexation of Va. counties, 53; Freedmen's Bureau operations, 356, 366, 371; in Dept. of Va., 413; judicial district cre- ated, 113, 114; maps, 564; ratifies Fourteenth Amendment, 19; repre- sented in 38th Congress, 17; Slave Claims Commission, 391; volun- teer regiments, 405. See also Virginia
West Virginia University Library, district court records, 114 Western Department, U. S. Sanitary Commission, 587, 588
Western Gunboat Fleet, 194, 299; ac- counts, 195
Western Hemisphere, U. S. agents, 142
Western National Armory. See Na-
Whiteley, William G., 61
Whitemire, Moses, 541
Whites, appropriation for needy,
71; depredations upon Indians, 532, 535, 536
Whiting, George C., 501, 506, 507, Wills, 198; Ariz. Ter., 118; Mont.
Whitney, Charles W., 28, 471 Whitney steamer, 484
Whittlesey, E., 374
Whittlesey, F. A., 176
Wiard, Norman, 12, 15, 16, 28, 280
Wiard gun, 280, 468
Wichita Indians, 547
Widows, pension claims, 128; pen- sion proposed, 50; pensions for, 78 Widows and dependents, increased pensions, 49
"Widows' and Orphans' Home," Dis- trict of Columbia, 57 Wilberforce University, Ohio, his- tory, 23
Ter., 121; probated by Territorial courts, 117
Wilmington, Del., contracts investi- gated, 64; court seat, 95; gunboat construction, 484; powder plant,
Wilmington, N. C., 219, 226, 239,
374; Customhouse reopened, 219; marine hospital, 221; re bureau of education, 26
Wilmot, David, 128
Wilson, Henry, 26, 34, 38, 593 Wilson, James, 515
Wilson, James F., 51, 65, 69, 77 339 Wilson, James H., Wilson, John, 193 Wilson, Joseph S., 519, 521 Wilson, Matthew, 446
Wilson, Nathaniel, 447 Wilson, T. D., 450 Wilson, Thomas, 226 Wilson, William B.,
Winchester, Va., 254; inquiry re evacuation, 334; military sub-
district, 413; report on battle, 10 Winchester and Alabama Railroad, 22
Windom, William, 12, 48, 62 Windsor, Vt., 112
Winlock, Joseph, 465 Winnebago Agency, 547
Winnebago Indians, outrages, 48; removal from Minn., 13; Treas- ury funds belonging to, 48; under Northern Superintendency, 545 Winona, Minn., 105 Winslow, John A., 450 Winslow, Warren, 61
Wirz, Henry, 75, 328, 330, 337 Wirz trial, 75
Wisconsin, District Court judge
impeached, 41; ratifies Four- teenth Amendment, 19; river im- provements, 26, 271; surveyor general, 526, 527; township plats, 526; 21st Volunteers, 556; unas- signed to circuit in 1860, 89; vol- unteer regiments, 405; wagon road, 517
Wisconsin River, 26
Wise, George D., 293, 299 Wise, Henry A., 450, 467, 469 Wise, John H., 575 Wolcott, Christopher P., 246 Women, colored hospital employ-
ees, 361; commemorative memo- rials, 596; employed in: Post Of- fice Dept., 438, Treasury Dept., 179, 182; imprisoned in U. S. Penitentiary, 573; memorialize Senate, 36; photographs, 446; serve with U. S. Christian Com- mission, 590
Women's Central Relief Associa- tion of New York, 588, 589
Wood, Benjamin, 52
Wood, Fernando, 45, 357 Wood, Robert C., 304, 587 Wood, Thomas J., 364 Wood, William H., 370 Wood, William P., 202, 204 Wood, William S., 549
Wood, William W. W., 484, 485 Wood, claims cases re, 128 Woodbury, Levi, U. S. revenue cut- ter, 223
Woodhull, Maxwell, 440, 450, 492 Wood's patent knapsack, 289 Woodville, Tex., 377
Woodward, John J., 256, 305 Wool, John E., 397 Wool, duties on, 60
Worden, John L., 450, 490, 555 Wording, W. E., 209
Works Progress Administration, 215
Worley, Ella, 220
Worthington, Thomas, 53, 55 Wrecking licenses, 98 Wreckmaster, Wash. Ter., 124 Wright, John W., 543 Wright, Joseph A., 10, 33 Wright, Marcus J., 267 Wright, Reuben, 533, 539
Writs of attachment, 110; of error, 96, 116; of sale, 110 Wyandot Indians, 547 596 Wyks, E.,
Wyoming, U. S. S., 492 Wyoming Territory, 120; Army
posts in, 408; township plats, 526 Wythe Courthouse, Wytheville, Va., 112
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