Grant

  White Man’s Party, 788

  white supremacist groups, 760, 789

  see also Ku Klux Klan; White League

  Whitlow, John Henry, 640

  Whitman, Walt, ix, 124, 359, 385, 542, 617, 650, 654, 773, 863, 955–56

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 829

  Wilcox, Cadmus M., 62

  Wilderness, battle of the, 375–85, 390, 393, 400, 404, 431, 637

  casualties of, 384, 385

  Grant’s article on, 929

  Wilentz, Sean, xxii

  Wilhelm I, emperor of Germany, 876

  Willard Hotel, 71, 162, 340, 343, 454, 456, 519, 524, 528, 546

  Williams, Abram, 843

  Williams, George H., 607, 711, 761, 762, 765–66, 767, 781, 786–87, 792

  Williams, Kenneth P., 237

  Williams, Seth, 500, 509

  Wilmington, N.C., 460, 470, 472, 473, 522

  Wilmot, David, 59

  Wilmot Proviso, 59

  Wilson, Bluford, 798, 802, 804, 805, 807

  Wilson, Henry, 283, 338, 720, 741, 743, 747, 753, 754, 779, 782, 785, 837

  Wilson, James H., 86–87, 149, 210, 237, 247–48, 255, 312, 318, 362, 386, 398, 399, 439, 462, 617, 625, 626, 632, 669, 670–71, 678, 798

  McClernand fired by, 272

  Wilson, Woodrow, 686, 837, 854

  Wilson’s Creek, battle of, 143–44

  Wing, Henry, 384

  Wisconsin, 100, 109, 117, 121–22

  Wise, Isaac Mayer, 643

  Wish-ton-wish, 93, 94

  Wittenmyer, Annie, 299–300

  Wolf, Simon, 620, 642, 643, 659, 837

  Wood, Charles, 925

  Wood, Thomas, 322

  Woodhull, Victoria, 749–50

  Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, 771–72

  Woodward, C. Vann, xxii

  Wool, John E., 64

  World War I, 387

  World War II, 516

  Wormley Conference, 849

  Worth, William J., 51, 55

  Wright, Henry Clay, 93–94, 101, 389, 402, 491, 500

  in battle of Cold Harbor, 404

  Wright, Horatio, 420

  Wyoming Territory, 819

  Yates, Richard, 129–32, 135

  on capture of Fort Donelson, 184

  Grant appointed colonel by, 136

  Yazoo Pass, 247–48, 255, 268, 272, 273, 277

  Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company, 874

  Yellow Tavern, 388

  York (horse), 27

  Yosemite Valley, 739

  Young, John Russell, 23, 629, 734, 848, 863–64, 869, 871, 874, 878–79, 882–83, 891–92, 893, 899, 912

  Young’s Point, La., 245–46, 250

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Author photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan

  Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of six previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the American History Book Prize. A past president of PEN America, Chernow has been the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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