The American Future (55 page)

Utah, 259, 339, 340

 

Valenzuela, General Alfredo (“Freddie”), 55–57

Van Buren, President Martin, 253, 329

Vane, Sir Henry, 156, 157

Vauban, Sébastien, 62

Vaux, Calvert, 259

Veney, Bethany, 192

Vermont, 226

Vesey, Denmark, 183, 184, 193

Victoria, Queen, 200, 262

Vidal, Gore, 21

Vietnam War, 56, 109, 135

Virginia, 70, 76, 78, 91, 169, 175; Shirtmen, 43; Military Institute, 101; Statute of Religious Freedom (1786), 165, 166, 168, 169, 171–74, 175, 177, 182; slavery, 176–77, 183, 194, 296;
see also
Arlington National Cemetery; Fredericksburg; Harpers Ferry; Monticello; Raven

Virginia, University of, 54, 165, 176

 

Walker, David:
One Universal Cry,
183–84, 209

Walker, Francis A., 285, 286–87

Walker, Robert J., 257

Wall Street Journal,
296

Walter, Thomas U., 67, 68

Wang, Jinghzao, 307

War of 1812, 30, 36–37, 52, 61, 252

Ward, Robert DeCourcy, 285

Warnock, Reverend Raphael, 206–7, 209

Warren, Charles, 285

Washington, Booker T., 203, 205

Washington, President George, 32, 249, 305; in American Revolutionary War, 36, 39, 42, 43, 235; visits Newport, R.I., 161, 162, 164–65; and taxes and rebellions, 44–45; and funding for West Point, 45; and war with France, 49, 50; commands “volunteer” army, 50; and Cherokee Indians, 316, 318, 322, 325; death, 51

Washington, D.C., 63, 77, 78–79, 135–36, 192, 201, 369; Capitol, 67–68, 74, 88; Corcoran's house, 94; Pension Building, 114; water supply, 64–67

Washington Post,
310

Washington State, 272, 279

Watner, Jowls, 144

Watson, Tom, 286

Watts, Isaac: hymns, 148

Wayne, General “Mad” Anthony, 36, 61–62

Webster, Daniel, 67, 326

Webster, Noah, 37

Weld, Theodore, 181–82, 184, 193, 253

Welsh Tract Baptists, 149

Wesley, John, 168, 179

West Point Academy, 32, 38–42, 45, 48, 50–51, 53–54, 58, 59–60, 62, 78, 109, 110

Whiskey Rebellion (1791), 30, 44

White, George, 201–2

White Path
see
Meigs, Return Jonathan, Sr.

Whitefield, George, 168, 179

Whitman, Walt, 255, 256

Wilderness, the, battle of (1864), 98, 123

Wilentz, Sean, 13

Wilhelm I, Kaiser, 115

Williams, Jonathan, 54

Williams, Mary (
née
Barnard), 154

Williams, Reverend Richard, 189

Williams, Roger, 152–59, 160, 163, 166, 167, 170, 171;
The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience,
156–57;
The Bloudy Tenet Yet More Bloudy,
163

Wilson, Senator Henry, 98

Wilson, Washington, 194

Wilson, President Woodrow, 288, 290, 292, 308

Wimbs, Addison, 205

Winona, Mississippi, 134

Winthrop, Governor John, 153, 155, 166

Wirt, William, 327

Wirtz, Willard, 135

Wise, John H., 281–82

Wong Kim Ark, 281–82

Wong Sic Chien, 268

Wood, Major General Leonard, 116, 117

Woodstock, Georgia: First Baptist

Church, 140–45, 149, 206

Woolwich: Royal Military Academy, 47

World,
121

World Wars: First, 288, 290, 347; Second, 109, 110, 123–25

Wright, Reverend Jeremiah, 140, 206, 209

Wyoming
(steamer) 284

Wyoming 259, 272, 337;
see also
Rock Springs

 

xerigraphic landscaping, 356

 

Yale and alumni, 11, 37, 285, 290

Yorktown, battle of (1781), 43, 46

 

Zanesville, Ohio, 210

Zangwill, Israel, 297;
The Melting Pot,
297–98