Chancellorsville campaign; failure of Hooker to fight Lee in detail; Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania; Hooker replaced by Meade; battle of Gettysburg; failure of Meade to pursue Lee; Bragg's invasion of Kentucky; battle of Perryville; Buell replaced by Rosecrans; battle of Stone's River; Rosecrans drives Bragg out of Tennessee; siege and capture of Vicksburg; fall of Port Hudson; Rosecrans' Chattanooga campaign; battle of Chickamauga; siege of Chattanooga; Rosecrans replaced by Thomas, Grant given command of West; battle of Chattanooga; liberation of East Tennessee; Meade's campaign in mud; steps leading to draft; diminishing influence of politicians in; Grant made lieutenant-general; new plan of campaign; Grant's Virginia campaign; battle of Wilderness; battle at Spottsylvania; battle of Cold Harbor; Butler "bottled up"; Early's raid against Washington; Sherman's Atlanta campaign; capture of Mobile; Sheridan's Valley campaign; Sherman's march to the sea; Thomas's destruction of Hood's army; sinking of the Alabama and of the Albemarle; decay of Confederate army in 1865; siege of Petersburg; march of Sherman through Carolinas; Bentonsville; attempts of Lee to escape; Five Forks; abandonment of Petersburg and Richmond; flight of Lee to Southwest; Appomattox; surrender of Lee; surrender of Johnston. Washburne, Elihu B., letters of Lincoln to, on senatorial election of 1855, see vol. i.; on compromise in 1861; meets Lincoln at Washington; in House in 1861. Washington, George, futility of attempt to compare Lincoln with, see vol. ii. Webb, General A.S., on effects of politics in Virginia campaigns, see vol. i.; on the consequences of Lincoln's relation to McClellan, see vol. ii.; on McClellan's change of base. Webster, Daniel, his 7th of March speech, see vol. i. Weed, Thurlow, advocates revision of Constitution in 1860, see vol. i. Weitzel, General Godfrey, enters Richmond, see vol. ii. Welles, Gideon, secretary of navy, see vol. i.; opposes relieving Sumter; changes opinion; not told by Lincoln of plan to relieve Pensacola; learns that Lincoln has spoiled his plan to relieve Sumter; wishes Lincoln to close Southern ports by proclamation; disapproves of Lincoln's scheme of amnesty, see vol. ii. West, social characteristics of frontier life in, see vol. i.; democracy in; vagrants in; violence and barbarity of; manners and customs; grows in civilization; economic conditions of; frontier law and politics; popular eloquence in; its ignorance of foreign countries. West Virginia, origin of, see vol. i.; campaign of McClellan in; forms a state Constitution, see vol. ii.; question of its admission; its vote counted in 1864.