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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,

122

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,

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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

124

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

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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-

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Whiteley, William G., 61

Whitemire, Moses, 541

Whites, appropriation for needy,

71; depredations upon Indians,
532, 535, 536

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469

Wills, Thomas F.,

Whiting, George C., 501, 506, 507, Wills, 198; Ariz. Ter., 118; Mont.

543, 552

Whiting, Henry L, 226

Whiting, William, 141

Whitmore, George W., 46

Whitmore, Lewis K.,

555

Whitney, Charles W., 28, 471
Whitney steamer, 484

Whittlesey, E., 374

Whittlesey, Elisha, 183

Whittlesey, F. A., 176

Wiard, Norman, 12, 15, 16, 28,
280

Wiard gun, 280, 468

Wichita, Kans., 100

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,

467

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.,

316

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

Wine, 581

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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