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
Z
Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild, 276
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