INDEX
Reading edition
A
Academy, the French, 170
Acropolis, the, 165
Act of Secession, 165
Adair, address of, 340
Adams, John, 87;
and the national capital, 125;
quoted, 88, 128, 148, 204
Adams, J. Q., 93, 140
Adams, Louisa J., 93
Adams, Mrs. John, 128, 135
Adams, Samuel, and the Stamp Act, 196
Addison’s Cato, 269
Advance, the, 246
Advertiser, the Edgefield, xxviii, note
Agassiz, 273
Alabama, settlement of, 356;
see also Mobile and Montgomery;
Sevier buried in, 463
Alabama Convention, 402
Alabama Platform, 399
Alabama Swan, the, 392
“Alabama Town,” 382, 384
Albemarle, the, 250, 251
Alexandria and the national capital, 116
Alferez Real, the, 424
Algonquins, 101, 102
Alibamons, 335, 340
Alice, the, 366
Allan, John, 174
Allen, James Lane, 534
Allen, Rev. Bennett, 80
Allston, Washington, 275
Almonester, Don Andres, 424, 425
America, the, 22
American Notes, Dickens’s, 521
Anacostan, 101
Anacostia, 101, 146
Anacostian River, 105
Anastasia, 570, 575
Andersen, Hans, quoted, 68
Anderson, Colonel, 371
Anderson, D. C., 362
Anderson, Gen. Robt., 505
Anderson, Mary, 534
Ann, the, 300, 324
Annalist, the, 455
Annapolis, 12, 75, 79;
Sara Andrew Shafer on, 47-73;
settlement, 47-53;
the first church, 53-56;
the first school, 57;
the State House, 58;
the Revolution, 59;
historic homes, 61-66;
U. S. Naval Academy, 68-73
Annapolis Convention, the, 201
Anne Arundel, 52, 53
Anstill’s night ride, 355
Antietam, battle of, 94
Antigua, 276
Apalaches, 341
Appalachian Indians, 570, 571
Arbuthnot, 290
Arizona, 478
Ark, the, 1, 50
Arkansas, 335;
see Little Rock
Arkansas Indians, 539, 540
Arlington, 148
Armstrong, James, 455
Arnold, Benedict, in Richmond, 161
Arthur, President, 320
Asbury, Bishop, quoted, 82
Ashe, Col. John, 238, 240-242
“Ashland,” 505, 531
Ashley, Chester, 548, 549, 552
Ashley River, 251, 252
Athens, 494
Atlanta, Ga., xvi
Atlanta, the, 324
Audubon, John J., 273, 504, 518
Augusta, Ga., xxv
Avar, tomb of, 413
B
Bacon, Nathaniel, 164, 191, 192
Bahamas, the, 251
Bainbridge, Peter, 83
Baker’s Creek, battle at, 443
Baldwin, M. J. D., 360
Baltimore, xix, xxix, 79, 108, 130, 325, 436;
St. George L. Sioussat on, 1-45;
early towns, 5;
the Act of 1709, 7;
union with Jonas town, 8;
1709-1754, 10;
growth of foreign trade, 12;
the French and Indian War, 14-18;
before the Revolution, 18-21;
in the Revolution, 21-28;
Kennedy’s description of old, 28-32;
growth before the War of 1812, 32-36;
in the War of 1812, 36-38;
internal improvements, 38;
divided during Civil War, 39-41;
higher life of, 41-45
Baltimore, Lords, 1-3, 21, 51, 52
Baltimore, the, 11
Baltimore & Ohio R. R., 39
Bancroft, George, 70;
quoted, 199, 264
Barbadoes, 229, 251
Barbe, Marie, 358
Barnett, Rev. John, 233
Barton Academy, 359
Bartow, Francis S., 322
Bartram’s Botanical Expedition, 344
Bas Fonde, 330
Bassett, 213
Bate, Gen. Wm. B., 498
Bath, N. C., 223, 224
Báthori, S., 154
Battle Monument, 18
Bayliss, Mrs., 141
Bazares, exploration of, 330
Beall, Joseph, 83
Beall, Samuel, 83
Beatty, Thomas, 83
Beaudrat, execution of, 339
Beaufort, N. C., 223
Beckly, J. J., 208
Bell, John, 491
Bell House, 169
Bellimi, Charles, 214
Belvidere, 35
Benjamin, S. G. W., 275
Benton, T. H., 464, 490
Beresford, Richard, 271
Berkeley, Sir Wm., 164, 191, 192
Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 358
Bertrand, 357, 358
Bethesda, Ga., 311
Bethlehem, 26
Beulah, Augusta Evans’s, 362
Bienville, 332, 333, 335, 338, 340-342, 357, 416, 418, 424
Big Black, battle at, 443, 444
Big Rock, 541
“Big Salt Lick,” 483
Bigbee, 344
Bill of Rights, 204
Biloxi, 332, 338, 417, 434
Black Beard, 230
Bladensburg, battle of, 132
Blair, John, 214
Blair, Wm., 83
Blakeley, 354, 369
Bland, Richard, 199
Bledsoe’s Lick, 479
Bloody Marsh, 316
Blount, Gov. Wm., 451, 453-455, 458, 462, 463
Blount, Mary Grainger, 454
Blount College, 458, 461
Bolling, Jane, 159
Bonnet, Stead, 230, 231, 258
Boone, Daniel, 480, 486, 504, 508, 509
Booth, J. B., 363
Bordley, 16
Bordley House, 63
Borland, Solon, 548
Boston, 21, 240, 315
Botetourt, Lord, 207
Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, 19
Bourbon County organized, 437
Bourbons, the, 357
“Boz,” see Dickens
Braddock, General, 14, 78, 79, 115
Bragg, General, 470
Bray, Rev. Dr., 54
Brewton, Miles, 260
Brice Mansion, 62
British, attack Washington, 131-136;
at Wilmington, N. C., 242;
besiege Charleston, 264, 266;
attack Fort Bowyer, 355;
in the Southwest, 510-512
Brooklyn, the, 370
Brooks, Walter, 440
Brown, Governor, of Georgia, 323
Brownlow, Wm. G., 466-469
Brunswick, N. C., 223, 232-234, 239, 242
Buchanan, Admiral, 371
Buchanan, Dr. George, 40
Buell, General, 496, 498
Buford, Colonel, quoted, 402
Bunker Hill, battle of, 315
Burgoyne’s surrender, 511
Burke, Edmund, 316;
quoted, 286
Burnside at Knoxville, 470, 472
Burr, Aaron, at Richmond, 174;
capture of, 353;
at Nashville, 492;
at Louisville, 530
Burwell, Hon. Lewis, 190
Burwell, Lucy, 190
Bush River, 5, 6
Byrd, Col. Wm., 155, 157
Byrd, Col. William Evelyn, founds Richmond, 156-158;
visits Edenton, 224
Byrd, Evelyn, 158
Byron quoted, 509
C
Cabildo, the Spanish, 428, 431
Cabot discovers North America, 151
Cairo, Ill., 335, 361, 521
Calamata, 154
Caldwell, Joshua W., on Knoxville, 449-475
Calhoun, John C., 140, 464
Calvert, Cecilius, 21
Calvert, Charles, 78;
quoted, 2
Calvert, Frederick, 78, 79
Calverts, the, 48-50
Campbell, Colonel, defeats Gen. Robert Howe, 317
Campbell, General, in West Florida, 346, 347
Campbell, John A., 362
Canada, 331, 334
Canal, the Isthmian, 438
Canby captures Blakeley, 372, 374
Canoe Fight, the, 355
Cantonment, the, 356
Cape Clear, 320
Cape Fear, 220
Cape Hatteras, 220, 262
Cape Lookout, 220
Capitol, at Richmond, 162-170
Capitol the national, 121-124;
north wing completed, 126;
burned by the British, 134;
rebuilt, 137;
dome raised, 142
Cardross, Lord, 250
Carlton, Hon. Walter G., quoted, 307
Carolina, the, 250, 251
Carr, Capt. John, 388
Carr, Dabney, 199
Carrick, Rev. Samuel, 461
Carroll, Charles, 7, 8, 18, 40, 60, 66
Carroll, Daniel, 7, 8, 88, 122
Carrolls, the, 77, 79
Carrollton, 66, 79
Carter, John, 451
Cary, Archibald, 201, 204
Castle Garden, centennial celebrated at, 269
Cat Island, 339
Cathedral, the New Orleans, 425, 429, 431
Cato, Addison’s, first rendered in Philadelphia, 269
Catoctin, 76, 79
Cavet’s blockhouse, 460
Cawein, Madison, 534
Cayuga, the, 368
Cedar Point R’y, 359
Celeste, Madame, 363
Census of 1890, xv
Cervera, 256
Chamberlain, Gov. D. H., quoted, 284
Champion Hills, battle at, 443
Chandler, Bishop, quoted, 310
Chandler, Daniel, 362
Chandler, Mrs., 362
Charles I., 48, 199
Charles II., 290
Charleston, xvi, xix et seq.;
Yates Snowden on, 249-292;
first permanent settlement, 250-252;
Spanish attack on, 256-259;
in 1773, 259;
the St. Cecilia Society, 260;
in the Revolution, 262-267;
after the Revolution, 267-271;
the Augustan Age, 272;
economic and commercial history of, 276-279;
in the Civil War, 279-286;
churches of, 286-291
Charleston & Hamburg R’y Co., xxii
Charleville, M., 478
Charlton, R. M., 323
Charpentier’s Battery, 364
Chase, Samuel, 40, 88
Chase House, 63
Chastellux quoted, 162
Chateaugué, 338
Chatham Artillery, 320
Chaudron, Madame, 377
Cheatham, Frank, 498
Chellum Castle Manor, 120
Cherokees, and Mobile, 336;
Governor Blount’s treaty with, 453 ff.;
war with, 458-461, 479;
and Nashville, 486
Chesapeake Bay, 1, 152, 522;
explored by Capt. John Smith, 48
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 39
Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., 216
Cheshire, Bishop J. B., on Wilmington, N. C., 219-247
Chester, Governor, 344
Chesterfield quoted, 310
Chicago, xvi
Chicagou, 413
Chickamaugas, 482
Chickasabogue, 341
Chickasaws, 332, 335, 336, 340, 488
Chimborazo Park, 181
Chiskiack, 188, 190
Choctaws, 332, 334, 336, 339, 340, 355;
name Mobile Bay, 328;
Congress of 1765, 345
Christ Church, Newbern, 233
Christmas, Timrod’s, 288
Cincinnati, 517, 521
Civil War, see individual towns
Clark, George Rogers, in the Southwest, 504, 509-513, 516
Clark, Joseph, 122
Clarke, James Freeman, and George Keats, 525
Clausel, Comte, 357, 358
Clay, Henry, 140, 464, 490;
the Hart statues of, 168, 531;
at Mobile, 363;
at Louisville, 505
Clayton, H. D., quoted, 400
Clerissault, M., 164
Clermont, Fulton’s, 357
Cleveland, President, 320
Clifford, Justice, 550
Cockburn, Admiral, 67, 134
Codorus Creek suggested for site of national capital, 111, 112
Coffee, General, 490
Coligny, Admiral, 559
Collen, Williamson, 122
Colonial Dames, Georgia Society of, 307
Colonial Exchange, Charleston, 286
Columbia, S. C., xxii
Columbus, Christopher, 507;
map attributed to, 329
Compton, Spencer, 235
Conewago, 10
Confederate Literary Memorial Society, 180
Confederate States Congress, 165
Confederation, the, 400
Congress, the Continental, 106, 160, 203, 240-242, 313;
and the national capital, 109-116;
makes appropriation to William and Mary College, 216;
of 1765, 345;
organizes territorial government of Mississippi, 437
Congressional Library, 44
Conogocheague, 108, 116
Constitution, of Virginia, 204;
of United States quoted, 113
Conventicle Act of 1642 in Virginia, 51
Conventions: Southern commercial conventions, xxiv.-xxvi.;
the Virginia Convention of 1775, 160;
Williamsburg, 201, 204;
Annapolis, 201;
of 1787, 201, 453;
Alabama, 402;
Tennessee, 462
Conway, Henry W., 548
Copley, Sir Lionel, 52
Copley, the artist, 274
Copus’s Harbor, 10
“Corn Island,” 512, 513
Cornwallis, surrender of, 106, 165, 187, 216;
at Wilmington, N. C., 243
Cosa, 330
Cossacks, the, 136
Cotton production in the South, xvii, 277
Cotton Patch, 392
Cotton Plant, the, 357
Courier-Journal, Louisville, 534
Courtenay, Hon. W. A., quoted, 277
Cowpens, battle of, 26, 84
“Crackers,” the, xvi
Craig, Major, 242, 243
Cranham Church, 316
Crawford, F. Marion, 166
Crawford’s statue of Washington, 166, 168
Crayon Papers, the, 516
Creeks, 334-336, 339, 355, 381, 383, 463;
war with the, 354, 357;
attack Knoxville, 459-461, 486
Cresap, Capt. Michael, 84
Crisp, Speaker, 363
Crittenden, 548, 552
“Croftown,” 346
Cromwell, 199, 468
Cuba, 346;
war in, 376
Cummins, E., 548
Cummins, W., 548
Cushman, Charlotte, 363
Custis, “Jacky,” 19
D
Dabney, Virginius, quoted, 249
Dahlgren attacks Charleston, 290
Dargan, E. S., 362
Darnell, John, 83
Darwin, Charles, 272
“Daughters of the American Revolution,” 465
D’Aubant, Madame, 340
Dauphine Island, 328, 330, 332, 334, 336, 338, 341, 345, 346, 356, 359, 371
Davidson Academy, 489
Davion on the Mississippi, 334
Davis, Capt., 571
Davis, George, quoted, 220
Davis, Jefferson, 180, 364, 440, 506, 532;
monument to, 178;
at Montgomery, 394;
inauguration of, 408
de Aila, Capt., 572
Dean, Julia, 363
Dearborn Island, 136
de Beaurepaire, 170
De Bow’s Review, xix
de Cabrera, 571
de Charlevoix, Father, quoted, 540
Declaration of Independence, 87, 147, 201, 203, 204, 270
Declaration of Rights of 1776, 204
Defense, the, 22
de Gourgues, Dominic, 566
De Graffenreid, 228
De Kalb, Baron, 60
de la Harpe, Bernard, 541
de Lauzun, Duc, 24
Delaware River and the national capital, 111, 112
de Leon, Juan Ponce, 559
De Leon, T. C., 377
de Luna, Tristan, 330
de Lusser, Madame, 341
De Monbreun, Timothy, 479
de Navarro, Mary Anderson, 534
Denbigh, the, 366
de Rosset, Louis, 236
de Rosset, Moses John, 236, 238
Desmoulins, Camille, 93
De Soto, Hernando, 302, 330, 413, 415, 416, 541
d’Estaing, 298, 318, 325
Detroit, British at, 510
de Vaudreuil, Marquis, 422
Dew, Wells’s theory of, 271
Dewey, Admiral George, 465
Dexter, Andrew, 381, 382, 397
Dexter, Samuel, 381
D’Hughes, 85
Dickens, Charles, quoted, 111, 138, 159;
at Louisville, 520-522
Dickinson College, 208
Dickson, Thomas, 83
Dieppe, 249
Digges, Dudley, 120
Diligence, the, 239, 240
Discovery, the, 151
District of Columbia, see Washington
Ditty, Mrs., 141
Dixon and the torpedo, 280
Dobbs, Gov. Arthur, 234
Donelson, Capt. John, and the settlement of Nashville, 482 ff.
Donelson, Rachel, 482
Don Juan, Byron’s, quoted, 509
Don Miff, Dabney’s, quoted, 249
Dorchester, Ga., 312
Douglass, Major H. Kyd, 95
Dove, the, 1, 50
Dow, Lorenzo, 353
Doyle quoted, 259
Drake, Sir F., 259, 331, 567
Draper, Sir Wm., 14
Drayton, quoted, 151
Drayton, W. H., 271, 272
Drummond, Governor, execution of, 192
Dublin University Magazine, 272
Du Bois, Father John, 93
Du Bose quoted, 399
Dulany, Daniel, 66; note, 79
Dulany, murder of, 82
Dulanys, home of the, 73
Dunlap, Wm., 269
Dunmore, Lord, 161
Dupont attacks Charleston, 290;
St. Augustine surrenders to, 578
Du Pratz quoted, 540
Durnford, Governor, 343, 347
Durrett, Col. Reuben T., 532
Duval, Wm. P., 516
E
Early, Gen. Jubal A., attacks Washington, 141
“East Alabama Town,” 383
East Knoxville, 466
Ebenezer, Ga., 297
Ecunchatty, 381, 410
Edenton, N. C., 238;
Bishop J. B. Cheshire on, 223-228
Edict of Nantes, Revocation of, 290
Edmonson, Colonel, 389
Ege, Jacob, 159
Eggleston, Edward, at Louisville, 530
Ellicott, Andrew, 352;
and the planning of Washington, 119
Elliott, Stephen, 272
Elmore, Capt. Rush, 398
Emmerson, Thos. 457
Endymion, Keats’s, 525
England and treaty of 1763, see British
English, explorations of the, 331;
in the Ohio Valley, 335;
possession of Mobile, 342-347;
see also British
Ennalls, Mr., 213
Enquirer, the Richmond, xxvii
Eslava, Don Miguel, 348
Estelle Hall, 399, 402
Etowah, battle of, 461
Eugene, Prince, of Savoy, 315
Eutaw, Colonel Howard at, 26
Evans, Augusta, 362;
see also Wilson
Everhart, Sergeant Laurence, 84
Exposé Justificatif, Bertrand’s, 357
F
Fairbanks, G. R., on St. Augustine, 557-581
“Fairregret,” see Farragut
Falconer, John, 381
Fanning, David, 243
Farmer, Major Robert, occupies
Fort Chartres, 345
Farragut, Admiral, xxx, 465;
at Mobile, 369-371
Farragut, George, 465
Fearon, H. B., 520, 524
Feilden, Col. H. W., quoted, 282
Fell, 27
Fell, Edward, 8-10
Fell, Wm., 10
Fell’s Point, 10, 24, 41
“Fighting Parson,” see Brownlow
Filipina, 330
Fisk University, 500
Fitch, John, 504
Fite, Jacob, 24
Flagler, H. M., 580
Fleet, Henry, quoted, 102
Fleming, John, 7
Flora Caroliniana, 272
Florida, 341;
annexed, 207;
Spain in, 330, 347;
French occupy, 331, 332;
English troops in, 346;
see also St. Augustine
Florida, the, 366-368
Foley’s statue of Stonewall Jackson, 170
Forrest, Edwin, 363
Forrest, Gen. N. B., 496
Forsyth, John, 363
Forts: Biloxi, 338;
Bowyer, 355, 356;
Caroline, 561-567;
Charles, 155, 560;
Charlotte, 342, 351;
Chartres, 338, 345;
Condé, 338, 341, 342;
Donelson, 496;
Gaines, 362, 369, 371;
Halifax, 294;
Johnston, 241;
Loudon, 449;
Louis de la Mobile, 332;
Marion, 578;
McDermott, 374;
McHenry, 22, 37, 92;
Maurepas, 332;
Mifflin, 26;
Mims, 354;
Morgan, 362, 366, 369, 372;
Moultrie, xxx, 266;
Natchez, 338;
Natchitoches, 338;
New Orleans, 338;
Patrick Henry, 482;
Pulaski, 322-324;
Red, 374;
Ridley, 485;
St. Stephen, 350, 352, 353;
Saunders, 471, 472;
Severn, 67;
Sidney Johnson, 368;
Spanish, 372, 374;
Stoddert, 353;
Sumter, xix, xxx, 280, 282, 505;
Tombecbé, 335, 338;
Toulouse, 335, 338-340, 354;
White’s, 451
Fottrell, Edward, 16
Fountain Inn, 24
Fowler, Abraham, 548, 552
France, 173;
acquires the St. Lawrence and Florida, 331;
in the Mississippi Valley, 334, 414, 416, 433;
and Mobile, 345, 348;
and treaty of 1763, 422;
re-acquires New Orleans, 428
Franklin, battle of, 497
Franklin, Benjamin, at Frederick, Md., 78;
quoted, 310
Franklin College, 311
Franklin Library, 158
Frascati, 368
Fraser, Charles, 275
Frederica, Ga., 297, 316
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 78
Frederick Town, xxix;
Sara Andrew Shafer on, 75-99;
settlement, 75-78;
French and Indian War, 78;
resistance to the Stamp Act, 82;
Revolution, 84;
Thos. Johnson, 86-89;
Francis Scott Key, 90-92;
visit of Lafayette, 93;
Civil War, 94;
Barbara Frietchie legend, 96-98
Freeland Station, Indians attack, 487
French, Daniel, 517
French, the, see France
French and Indian War, 14, 78, 196, 342, 434
French Lick, the, 479, 481
French Revolution, 477
Fritchie, Barbara, 96-98
Fritchie, John, 97
Fulton, Robert, 357, 504, 517
Fundamental Constitutions, Locke’s, 254
G
Gadsden, Christopher, 271
Gait House, Dickens at the, 522
Galvez, rules Louisiana, 346;
attacks Mobile, 347, 372
Garay, Governor, 329
Gardner, Capt. Samuel, 15
Garrett’s Public Men quoted, 397
Gates, Sir Thomas, 151
Gazette, Maryland, 42;
Philadelphia, 83;
Virginia, 156;
South Carolina, 269;
Knoxville, 457
Gentry, Meredith P., 490
George I., 195
George III., 78, 342
Georgetown, Va., 117, 124, 128, 148;
and national capital, 114
Georgia, gold region of, 331;
organizes Bourbon County in Mississippi, 437;
see also Savannah
Georgia Central R’y, 294, 322
German Relief Hall, Mobile, 339
Germantown and the national capital, 108, 113
Gettysburg, 470, 472
Ghent, treaty of, 356
Gibbes, 273
Gibson, Randall L., defends Spanish Fort, 372, 374
Gillmore, Gen., reduces Fort Pulaski, 324
Gilman, Daniel C., 42
Gilmer, Governor, quoted, 391
Gist, Gen. Mordecai, 26
Glasgow, Yorktown trade with, 187
Glassell and the torpedo, 280
Godfrey, Thomas, 244
God Speed, the, 151
Goliad, the surrender at, 395
Goodhue, 109
Goose Creek and the national capital, 104, 105
G. A. R. at Louisville, 506
Granger, General, 372
Grant, Gen. U. S., xxix, xxx, 472, 498;
and the defence of Washington, 142;
besieges Vicksburg, 435, 442-446
Great Britain, see British and England
Greene, Gen. N., in Georgia, 298, 303, 306;
quoted, 26
Grimké, John F., 271
Grundy, Felix, 490
Guilford, Col. Howard at, 26
Guion, Gov. John J., 440
H
Habersham, James, 312, 314, 315
Hackett, J. H., 363
Hadfield, George, 125
Hakluyt, 249
Haldimand, General, papers of, 344
Hall, Dr. Lyman, and St. John’s Parish, Ga., 313, 314
Hallam, Lewis, 212
Hallam, Miss, 212
Hallett, Stephen L., and the national capital, 121, 122, 125
Hamburg, Germany, xxviii
Hamburg, S. C., xxviii
Hamilton, A., and the national capital, 113, 114
Hamilton, Peter, 362
Hamilton, Peter J., on Mobile, 327-378
Hampden-Sidney College, 208
Hampton, Va., 187
Harnett, C., 240, 242, 244
“Harop,” 190
Harriet, the, 357, 393
Harris, Isham G., 466
Harrison, President Wm. H., 214
Harrodsburg, Ky., 510
Hart, Joel T., statues of Henry Clay, 168, 531
Hartford, the, 370, 371
Harvard College, 206, 311
Harvey, Sir John, 187
Harvey-town, 4
Havana, 256, 424
Hawkins, 331
Hawthorne, 509
Hayne, Col. Arthur, 389
Hayne, Col. Isaac, 286
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 273
Hayne, Robt. Y., xxiii
Hempstead, Samuel H., 548, 550
Henfrey, 182
Henry, Patrick, 87, 168, 191;
at Williamsburg, 196, 197;
and George Rogers Clark, 511;
quoted, 161
Henry, W. W., on Richmond, 151-183
Hermitage, the, 491-493
Heroine, the, 366
Herrington, 4
Hewatt, 258
Hewes, Joseph, 228
Heyward, Thos., 270
Higginson, Capt. R., 190
Hilliard and Yancey, 399
Hitchcock’s Press, 359
Hoban, James, plans the White House, 122, 125, 126, 137
Hodgson describes Mobile in 1820, 359
Holbrook, 273
Hollywood, 180
Holmes, O. W., at Frederick, 94
Holt, Atty.-Gen. Joseph, 440
Hood, General, 497
Hood, Zachariah, 83
Hooper, George, 236
Hooper, Wm., 236, 241, 242
Hoosier Tales, Eggleston’s, 530
Hope, James Barron, 168
Horse Shoe Bend, battle of, 355, 384
Houdon, his statue of Washington, 165, 166;
his bust of Lafayette, 173
Houghton’s Life of Keats, 525
Houston, Sam, 465, 490
Houston, Wm., 238
How he Saved St. Michael’s, 288
Howard, Col. J. E., 26, 27, 35;
quoted, 37
Howard’s Park, 36
Howe, Gen. Robt., at Savannah, 317, 318, 324
Hugh, Andrew, 83
Huguenots, in America, 249, 250, 559 ff.;
at Charleston, 269, 290
Humphreys Creek, 6
Hunter, Father, 80
Hunter, Senator R. M. T., 168
I
Iberville, 332, 416
Illinois, 334
Indigo, cultivation of, in the South, xvii, 277, 576
Ingle, Edward, xxv
Innes, James, 236
Iredell, James, 227, 238, 242
Iroquois, the, 76, 478
Irving, Washington, visits Louisville, 514-516, 522, 530
Italians brought to Georgia, 304
J
Jackson, Andrew, xxx, 466, 489, 490;
at Mobile, 355, 356, 363;
at New Orleans, 423;
and Hugh L. White, 464;
residence of, 483, 491;
his old age, 492;
at Louisville, 531
Jackson, Gen. Wm. H., 498
Jackson, Rachel Donelson, 482, 491, 492
Jackson, Stonewall, xxix, 94, 95, 98;
Foley’s statue of, 170
Jackson, Thomas J., see Stonewall Jackson
Jacksonville, Florida, 578
Jamaica, 329
James, Henry, quoted, 509
James River, 151, 152, 154, 156, 159
Jamestown, Va., 300, 331;
settlement of, 152, 154, 155, 185, 186;
in Bacon’s Rebellion, 191, 192, 194;
compared with St. Augustine, 557
Jasper, Sergeant, 298, 299, 303, 318
Jefferson, Thomas, 88, 122, 130, 168, 311;
and the site of the national capital, 113-115;
and the Declaration of Independence, 201, 203, 204;
at William and Mary College, 207, 214;
quoted, 4, 164-166
Jennings, Edmund, 72
Jesuits in the Mississippi Valley, 334
John of Argyle, 315
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 42, 43
Johns Hopkins University, 42, 43
Johnson, Andrew, 284;
impeachment of, 467-469
Johnson, Charles, 228
Johnson, Dr., 316
Johnson, Gov. Sir Nathaniel, 257
Johnson, Thomas, 59, 85-89, 93
Johnston, Gen. J. E., 188, 216, 372;
at Vicksburg, 443
Johnston, Gov. Gabriel, 228, 231, 235, 238
Johnston, Samuel, 228, 242
Joliet, 331
Jonas town, 8, 41
Jones, Charles, 83
Jones, Col. C. C., quoted, 309, 312, 316
Jones, Commodore Thos. Ap-Catesby, 70
Jones, Rev. Hugh, quoted, 208-211
Jones’s Falls, 7, 18
Jones’s Point, 116
Joppa, 6
Jouett, Matthew H., 531
Journal, Louisville, 505, 532
Jubilee Singers, the, 500
Juchereau, 335
K
Kaskaskia, G. R. Clark attacks, 511
Kean, Charles, 363
Keats, George, at Louisville, 504, 524-530
Keats, Isabella, 528-530
Keats, John, and George Keats, 504, 524
Kennedy, Hon. John P., quoted, 28-32
Kentucky, xxi, xxii;
see Louisville
Key, Francis Scott, 37, 91, 395
Key, John Ross, 84
Kiawah, the Cacique of, 250
King, Grace, on New Orleans, 411-431
King William’s School, 56
Kinsale, 251
Klinck, John G., quoted, 382-384
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 158
Knox, Gen. Henry, Knoxville named for, 451, 455
Knoxville, J. W. Caldwell on, 449-475;
genesis of, 449-451;
Gov. Blount, 451-454;
Indian treaty of 1791, 454;
legislative act of 1794, 455;
the first mayor, 457;
Blount College founded, 458;
Indian war of 1793, 458-461;
Constitutional Convention of 1796, 462;
Hugh L. White, 463-465;
George Farragut, 465;
Sam Houston, 465;
Fighting Parson Brownlow, 466-468;
Horace Maynard, 468;
Thos. A. R. Nelson, 468;
the Civil War, 469-472;
since the war, 472-475
Krafft, Michael, 360
L
Ladies Hermitage Association, 493
Lady of the Lake, 392
Lafayette, General, in Baltimore, 24;
at Frederick, 93;
at Washington, 147;
at Richmond, 173;
at Savannah, 303;
at Mobile, 358;
at Montgomery, 388;
at Nashville, 490, 492
Lakanal, 357, 358
Lamartine, 135
Lane, John, 438
Langdon, C. C., 363
La Rochefoucault quoted, 267
La Salle, 331, 332, 334, 414-416
La Tour, 338
Laudonniere, 561 ff.
Law, John, and the Mississippi Bubble, 336, 348, 417, 418
Lawrence at Fort Bowyer, 355
Le Clerc, M., 16
Lee, Gen. R. E., xxix, 175, 323, 476;
at Frederick, 94;
Mercie’s statue of, 178;
residence of, 180;
surrender of, 246
Lee, R. H., 87, 88;
and the national capital, 115;
his resolution of independence, 204
Leeward Islands, 276
Le Feboure, M., plans attack on Charleston, 256, 257
Legaré, Hugh S., xxvii, 272
Lemoyne, 332
L’Enfant, Major, 104, 119
Le Sueur, explorations of, 334
Le Vert’s Souvenirs of Travel, 362
Lidell at Blakeley, 374
Lincoln, Abraham, 41, 506;
at Frederick, 94
Little Rock, George B. Rose on, 537-556;
physiography of the region, 537-539;
original inhabitants, 539-541;
early visits of white men, 541;
made capital of the Territory, 544;
growth, 544-547;
leaders of, 548-552;
Civil War, 552;
later history, 553
Liverpool & Manchester R. R., 278
Lloyd house, 63
Lobb, Captain, 239
Locke, John, 254
Loftus, Major, 345
London, Yorktown trade with, 187
Long Island, battle of, 26
Longstreet, General, besieges Knoxville, 470-472
Louis XIV., 332
Louisiana, 207, 346, 417;
naming of, 331;
cession of, 352, 428, 542;
acquires Statehood, 430;
see also New Orleans
Louisiana artillery, 374
Louisville, Lucien V. Rule on, 503-535;
the site, 503;
distinguished citizens, 504-506;
historic significance, 506-509;
founding of, 509-514;
Irving’s description, 514-516;
visitors to, 517-520;
immigration, 520;
Charles Dickens at, 521;
George Keats, 522-530;
Civil War, 532
Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston R. R. Co., xxi
Lucas, Colonel, 276
Lucas, Eliza, 276
Luckett, William, 83
Ludlow, Noah M., 363
Lyell, Sir Charles, 273
Lynch, Thos., Jr., 270
Lyon, David, 83
M
Maclean, Archibald, 236, 242
Macon, Ga., xxv
Macready at Mobile, 363
Madison, Dolly, 131
Madison, James, and L’Enfant, 120;
at Washington, 131, 134;
quoted, 109, 165
Madison, Rev. James, 214
Maffitt, Captain, 366, 368
Magna Charta, 204
Maison Quarrée, 164, 165
Malbone, Edward, 275
Maldonado, 330
Manassas, first battle of, 323
Maney, General, 498
Manigault, Gabriel, 271, 274
Marchand, 340
Marlborough, 259
Marquette, 331
Marshall, John, 165, 168, 214;
house of, 171-173;
at trial of Aaron Burr, 174
Marshall, Mary Willis Ambler, 172
Martian, Nicholas, 187
Martin, Governor, 241
Martin, Luther, 40
Martin Chuzzlewit, 521
Maryland, 101-103;
and the national capital, 108;
see also Annapolis, Baltimore, Frederick
Maryland Historical Society, 11, 26, 44
Mason, George, 204
Massachusetts Bay, Puritan landing at, 249
Massacre Island, 332
Maubila, 328
Maury, D. H., defends Mobile, 374
Maury, M. F., 181
Maybrick, Mrs., 362
Maynard, Horace, 467-469
Maynard, Washburn, 468
Mayo, Capt. Isaac, 70
Mayo, Major, 156
McClellan, General, xxix, 188, 216
McClung, Capt. P., 469
McCrady, Gen. E., quoted, 254, 273
McCulloh, H. E., 227
McDuffie, Governor, xxi, xxii
McGillivray, 340
McIntosh, Gen. Lachlan, 296, 318
McKinley, President, 320
McLaw, 471
McMahon, Hon. John V. L., 44
McNutt, Governor, 440
Meigs, M. C., quoted, 283
Meldrim, Hon. P. W., quoted, 298
Memoirs, Moultrie’s, 266
Memphis, 335
Menefee, Mrs. E., 531
Menendez, 559-567, 572
Menendez, Don Pedro, 568
Mercie’s statue of Lee, 178
Mercury, the Charleston, xxvii
Merrimac, the, 187
Mexico, 146, 331, 346;
St. Denis visits, 335;
war with, 398, 504, 549;
gold mines of, 415
“Middle Plantation,” 190
Middleton, Arthur, 270
Mignot, Louis R., 275
Milledge, Governor, 311
Miller, Wm. K., xxviii
Milliken’s Bend, 442
Minden, the, 37
Minge, James, 191
Mississippi, territorial government of, organized, 437;
see also Vicksburg
Mississippi Bubble, Law’s, 336
Mississippi River, 329;
French and the, 334;
De Soto and the, 413, 414;
and the treaty of 1763, 422;
and the great West, 426
Moale, John, 6-8, 11
Mobile, xxx, 417, 434;
Peter J. Hamilton on, 327-378;
historic background, 327-332;
early settlements, 332-338;
character of early, 339, 340;
the English drive out the French, 342-346;
the Spanish era, 347-352;
becomes American, 352-354;
in the War of 1812, 354-356;
American development, 356-364;
in the Civil War, 364-375;
in recent times, 375-378
Mobile & Ohio R. R., 361
Mohawks, 478
Mon Louis Island, 341
Monacans, 102
Monahoacs, 102
Monnokasi, 77
Monocacy, 76;
battle at, 141
Monockessy, 77
Monroe, President, 165, 180, 320, 492, 516;
at William and Mary College, 207;
at Louisville, 531;
orders troops into Florida, 577
Montezuma, 306
Montgomery, xix, 553;
George Petrie on, 379-410;
origin of, 380-384;
the early settlement
described, 384-386;
visit of Lafayette, 388-390;
social and economic history, 390-395;
State capital moved to, 396;
the war with Mexico, 398;
influence of Yancey, 399-405;
capital of the Confederacy, 407;
inauguration of President Davis, 408;
after-days, 409
Montgomery, Lemuel, 383
Montgomery, Richard, 384
Montgomery, Sir Robt., quoted, 299, 301
Montgomery R. R., 393
Monticello, 311
Montrose, 343, 346, 350, 368
Monumental Church, Richmond, 170
Moore, Arthur, 380
Moore, Francis, 303
Moore, Governor, 574
Moore, Maurice, 232
Moore, Roger, 233
Moore, Tom, quoted, 104, 131, 146
Moravians in Georgia, 305
More, Hannah, 316
Morris Island, 282
Moss, Major, 174
Moultrie, Gen. W., quoted, 266, 286
Mound-builders, the, 478
Mount Clare, 18
Mount Olivet, 498
Mount Vernon, 125, 330, 492
Mowatt, Mrs., 363
Murfreesboro, battle of, 496
Murphy’s Circulating Library, 33
Murray, Hon. C. A., quoted, 268
Muse, Col. H., quoted, 212
N
Nacochtank, 101
Nahant, the, 324
Nanipacna, 330
Napoleon I., 357
Napoleon III., 273
Narvaez, 329
Nash, General, 484
Nashborough, 484
Nashville, xxx, 450, 462, 474;
Gates P. Thruston on, 477-501;
prehistoric times, 477-479;
founding of, 479-483;
naming of, 484;
the founder, 485;
Indian attacks, 486-489;
Nashborough becomes Nashville, 489;
visit of Lafayette, 490;
Andrew Jackson in, 491-494;
the home of James K. Polk, 494;
becomes capital of Tennessee, 494;
Civil War, 495-498;
recent history, 498-501
Natchez, 353;
settlement of, 433
Natchez Indians, 340
“Nat Turner Insurrection,” 170
Naval Academy, U. S., 68-72
Nelson, Thos. A. R., 468
Neufchâtel, liturgy of, 291
Newbern, N. C., 223, 228, 233
Newburyport, Mass., 311
Newport, Capt., at Jamestown, 154
Newport News, 188
Newport, U. S. Naval Academy removed to, 70
New Mexico, 478
New Orleans, xvi, xix, xxx, xxxii, 338, 342, 346, 352, 358, 434, 436, 517;
Grace King on, 411-431;
background of, 411-413;
De Soto’s explorations, 413;
La Salle’s scheme, 414-416;
Iberville’s Success, 416;
Bienville’s work, 416-418;
growth of, 418-422;
Spain acquires, 423-427;
French re-acquire, 428;
ceded to United States, 428;
battle of New Orleans, 430;
the city to-day, 430
New Philadelphia, 380
Newton, N. C., 235
New York, xvi, xx, 269;
Dutch settlement of, 249;
and the national capital, 108
Nicholson, Capt. James, 22
Nicholson, Gov. Francis, 194
“None Such,” 155
North America, discovery of, 151
North Carolina, 449, 489;
cedes Western lands, 451;
see also Wilmington
North Point, British attack on, 37
Northwest Territory, 511
Nott’s Types of Mankind, 362
O
Oconostota, quoted, 486
Ogle, Governor, 62
Oglethorpe, Gen. James E., at Savannah, 294, 296, 302, 306, 307, 310, 315, 324, 575
Ohio River, French occupy, 335
Ohio Valley, 510 ff.
Oliver, the stamp distributor, 197
O’Malley, Charles J., quoted, 534
Oneida, the, 368
Opechancanough, 190
Ordinance of 1787, 437
Orleans College, 358
Orleans, Duke of, 418
Orleans, the, 517
O’Reilly and New Orleans, 424
Orton House, 232
Oyster Point, settlements on, 252
P
Paca homestead, the, 62
Pacquereau, Captain, 258
Page, General, 366, 372
Panuco, 329
Paris, 170;
Treaty of, 422
Parker, Sir Peter, besieges Charleston, 264, 290
Parliament, Act of 1748, 276
“Patawomeke,” 102
Paulding, James K., 516
Peabody, George, 500
Peabody Institute, 44
Peabody Normal College, 500
Peach Bottom, and site for national capital, 108
Peggy Stewart, burning of the, 63, 65
Pelham Cadets, 371
Pelham, Peter, 214
Pemberton, General, at Vicksburg, 435, 443, 444
Pendleton, Edmund, and the Williamsburg Convention, 201, 202
Penn, Wm., 21, 124, 572
Pensacola, 333, 336, 344, 347, 371
Percy, Commodore, attacks Fort Bowyer, 355
Perier, 340
Peter the Great, 340
Peterborough, Lord, 158
Petigru, James L., quoted, 291
Petrovich, Alexis, 340
Petrie, George, on Montgomery, xix, 379-410
Phi Beta Kappa Society organized, 207
Philadelphia, xvi, 21, 87, 269;
and the Continental Congress, 106, 203;
and the Convention of 1787, 201;
and the national capital, 108, 114, 126;
compared with Charleston in 1796, 267
Philip and Charles, the, 11
Philippines, 196
Phillips, Philip, 362
Pickens, Governor, 388
Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg, 472
Piedmontese, the, in Ga., 306
Pierce, Franklin, 140
Pike, Albert, 547, 548, 552
Pilgrims at Plymouth, 154, 557
Pillans, Engineer, 369
Pinckney, C. C., 270, 276
Pinckney, Thos., 270, 276
Pinkney, Wm., 40
Piñeda in Florida, 329
Pittsburg, 511, 517, 518, 521
Placide, H., 363
Plains of Abraham, 342
Plymouth, 154, 300, 331, 558
Pocahontas, 101, 153, 159
Poe, David, 25
Poe, E. A., xxvii, 25, 174
Poe, Mrs. David, 25
Polk, James K., 70, 140, 492;
at Nashville, 492, 494;
tomb of, 495
Polytechnic Society, Louisville, 531
Pompeii, 249
Pont Chatooga, 342
Pope, Alexander, 316
Pope, F., vision of, 104, 105, 147
Pope, Warden, 531
Porcher, 273
Port Bill, the, 21
Port Hudson, 441
Port Royal, S. C., 249, 250, 572
Port Royall, the, 250, 251
Postboy, the New York, 83
Potomac and the national capital, 110, 111, 114, 116
Pott, Dr. John, 190
Powhatan, 101, 146, 152, 155
Pratt, Enoch, 44
Prentice, George D., 505, 532
Prentiss, S. S., 440, 490
Presbyterians in Knoxville, 449
Price, Thomas, 83
Princeton College, 208
Prioleau, 290
Privateers, Baltimore, 38
Provost, Gen. A., besieges Charleston, 266
Pueblo Builders, 478
Pulaski, 25, 294, 299, 303, 318-320
Purchas, Rev. Samuel, 153
Puritans, 249, 312
Purviance, 22
Pushmataha, 355
Q
Quapaws, 539, 540
Quebec, 334, 384
Queen Anne, 61, 158
Quincy, Josiah, 244, 267;
quoted, 259
Quitman, General, 398
R
Rains, General, 498
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 152, 219, 259, 331
Ramsay, Allan, 274
Ramsey, Doctor, quoted, 486
Randall house, 63
Randolph, Edmund, 201
Randolph, John, 165, 180, 512
Randolph, Peyton, 199
Randolph, Richard, 159
Randolph, Wm., 159
Randolph-Macon College, 208
Ravenel, Dr. St. Julien, discovers commercial value of phosphate deposits in South Carolina, 279
Ravenels, the, 273
Raymond, John T., 363
Ready Money, 392
Red Gauntlet, the, 366
Reeves, Lieutenant, 28
Republican, the Montgomery, 383
Revolution, American, Southern cities in, see individual cities
Rhett, Lieutenant-Colonel, defends Charleston, 231, 256
Rhyner, Mr., 288
Ribaut, Captain Jean, 249, 560-564
Rice, cultivation of, in the South, xvii, 277
Richmond, xxvi, xxvii, xxix, 206, 409;
Wm. Wirt Henry on, 151-183;
site discovered by Captain John Smith, 154;
founded by Col. W. E. Byrd, 156;
Act of Virginia legislature in 1742, 158;
St. John’s Church, 159;
incorporated in 1782, 162;
the Capitol, 164-170;
The Marshall house, 171-173;
the Swan tavern, 174;
the Valentine Museum, 175;
The Civil War, 176-178
Ridgely, Charles, 15
Ridout, John, house of, 64
Rives, Amélie, 377
Roanoke Island, colony on, 152
Robertson, Colonel, takes possession of Mobile, 342
Robertson, Harrison, 534
Robertson, James, 450, 490, 501;
at Nashville, 479, 481-485, 487
Robespierre, 93
Robin, the Abbé, 16
Rogers, Randolph, 168
Romans’s expedition, 344
Rome, 104-106
Rose, George B., on Little Rock, 537-556
Rose, Rev. Robert, 159
Rosecrans, General, 498
Rose Hill, 86
Ross, General, 134, 136
Ross, Rev. Doctor, 95
Roulstone, George, 457
Rule, Lucien V., on Louisville, 503-535
Russell’s Magazine, xxvii
Russia, 340
Rutledge, Hugh, 270
Rutledge, John, 270
Ryan, Father, 377
S
St. Anne’s Church, Annapolis, 53, 54
St. Augustine, xvi, xxix, 256;
G. R. Fairbanks on, 557-581;
settled and laid out by Menendez, 559-566;
burned by Drake, 567-570;
rebuilt, 570;
captured by Captain Davis, 571;
captured by Governor Moore, 574;
invested by Oglethorpe, 575;
ceded to England, 576;
restored to Spain, 577;
United States acquires, 577;
in Civil War, 578;
recent improvements, 580
St. Cecilia Society, Charleston, 260, 290
St. Charles Royal Hospital, 425
St. Denis, explorations of, 335, 338
St. Francis, order of, 571
St. James’s Church, Wilmington, N. C., 244
St. John’s Church, Richmond, 159-161
St. John’s College, Annapolis, 55, 56
St. John’s Parish, Ga., 312
St. Lawrence, French occupy the, 331
St. Louis, 413, 542
St. Mary’s, Md., 1, 53
St. Mary’s Church, Annapolis, 66
St. Mary’s County, Md., 5
St. Mémin, 275
St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, 287, 288, 291
St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore, 11
St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, 225, 226
St. Philip’s Church, Brunswick, N. C., 233
St. Philip’s Church, Charleston, 254, 255, 286-288
St. Stanislaus, order of, 273
Salem, N. C., 222
Salzburgers, the, in Ga., 79, 297, 305
San Domingo, revolution in, 32
San Jacinto, battle of, 491
San Marco, Castle of, 571, 575, 576, 581
Sands, Captain, 364
Santa Anna, 395
Santee, the, 72
Saunders, Colonel, 469
Savannah, xxx;
Pleasant A. Stovall on, 293-325;
early settlements, 293-298;
Oglethorpe’s colony, 300-306;
Tomochichi, 306-308;
Wesley, 308-310;
Whitefield, 310;
the Revolution, 311-320;
the Civil War, 322-324
Savannah, the, 320, 325
Saxe-Weimar, Duke of, 358
Sayle, Gov. Wm., 250 ff.
Schley, Thomas, 77
Schultz, Henry, xxviii
Scotch-Irish, in Tennessee, 449, 450
Scott, Gen. Winfield, 118;
at William and Mary College, 208
Sebastopol, siege of, 280
Secession, Act of, 165
Seibels, Col. J. J., 398
Selooe, 562
Seminole War, 578
Semmes, Raphael, 364, 366
Seven Years’ War, the, 342
Sevier, Ambrose H., 548-550
Sevier, John, 450, 479, 485;
and the battle of Etowah, 461;
made governor of Tennessee, 462
Shafer, Sara Andrew, on Annapolis, 47-73;
on Frederick Town, 75-99
Shaftesbury, the eighth Lord, 254
Sharkey, Judge W. L., 440
Sharpe, Governor, quoted, 12, 14, 16, 21
Shelby, Evan, 480
Shelby, Isaac, 479
Shepherd, Alexander R., and the city of Washington, 144
Sherman, Gen. W. T., xxx, 498;
at Charleston, 288;
captures Savannah, 324
Shields, General, 398
Shockoe’s Creek, 156
Silk culture in Ga., 304
Silk Hope plantation, 257
Silsbee, N., 141
Simms, Wm. Gilmore, xxvii, 273;
quoted, 264, 288
Simrall, H. F., on Vicksburg, 433-447
Sioussat, St. George L., on Baltimore, 1-45
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, 40
Sketch Book, Irving’s, 522
Slavery, negro, introduced into Florida, 572
Slocum, at Red Fort, 374
Slough, Mayor, surrenders Mobile to Federal forces, 375
Smallwood, General, 26
Smith, Capt. John, 48, 102, 152-155
Smith, Capt. Samuel, 26
Smith, Dr. John Lawrence, 273
Smith, Gov. Thomas, 277
Smith, Joseph, 83
Smith, Robert H., 362
Smith, Sol., 363
Snowden, Yates, on Charleston, xx, 249-292
Somers, Sir George, 151
South America, Spanish in, 331
South Carolina, see Charleston
South Carolina College, 208
South Carolina Railroad Co., xx
South Mountain, battle of, 94
Southern Literary Messenger, xxvii
Southern Review, xxvii, 272
Southwest Territory, 451, 454
Souvenirs of Travels, Le Vert’s, 362
Spain, and War of 1742, 297;
in the West Indies, 328;
claims of, in United States, 334;
acquires Florida, 347;
acquires New Orleans, 423-427;
in the Mississippi Valley, 433, 436;
see also Mobile, New Orleans, St. Augustine
Spanish, destroy Port Royal Colony, 250;
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,
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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
