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