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Watts, J. T., 252.

Wayfarer’s Adieu (Poem), 244-247.

Webster, Hon. Daniel, appreciates
Southern cooking, 219, 220;
visits Wilmington, 217-219; 227.

Weeks, C. D., 566.

Weil, I. H., 181, 185.

Weill, Abraham, 646.

Welch, Rev. E. R., 632.
Wells, Rev. Dr. John M., narrative

by, 590, 591; 617, 627.

West, “Sonny,” 242.

Western Bar, blockading fleet at,
399, 469, 470; one of the ap-
proaches to Cape Fear River,
392, 411; 471, 686. See Main
Bar.

Whipple, Miss, teacher, 238.

Whistler, James Abbott MeNeill,
249.

White, Capt. Harvey, 334.

White, John, agent of North Caro-
lina in England during the war,
454.

Whitefield, Rev. George, preaches in
Wilmington, 616.

Whitfield, Needham, 126.

Whitfield, William, 126.

Whiting, Gen. W. H. C., advises
General Bragg, 492; commands
Cape Fear defences, 281, 308;
commands Cape Fear district,
282, 284, 353, 483, 484;
dence inspired by, 485; contro-
versy of with Commodore Lynch,
487; death of, 386; encourages
Courier Murphy, 274; heroism
in the attack on Ft. Fisher, 296,
385, 386, 493, 494; Lieutenant
Cushing’s message to, 490; re-
port of quoted, 359, 383-385;
sketch of, 295, 296, 483, 484;
293, 324.

Whiting, Mrs. W. H. C., 121, 295, 502.

Whiting, Capt. H. C., 380.

Whitlock, Rev. C. F., 639.

Whitney, Lieutenant (cutter Semi-
nole), 541.

Wiggins, Capt. O. A., sketch of, 364,
365.

Wiley, Dr. Calvin H., develops pub-
lic school system, 658, 659.
Wilkes, Commodore Charles, U.S. N.,
attacks blockade runner at
Nassau, 417; report of on Cape

Fear coal, 204.

Wilkes, , teacher, 656.

Wilkings, Dr. W. C., 231-237.

Wilkings, Winslow S., 190.

Wilkings-Flanner duel, account of,
231-237.

Wilkinson, John, member N. C. Sons
of Liberty, 106.

Wilkinson, Capt. John, commands
C. §. cruiser Chickamauga, 406;
fails to enter Charleston after
the fall of Ft. Fisher, 476; nar-
ratives by, 410-415, 468-475;
runs the blockade 21 times in
command of the R. E. Lee, 388.

Willard, James A., 611.

Willard, Mrs. Martin S., 572.

Williams, Capt. A. B., sketch of,
365, 366.

Williams, A. S., 566.

Williams, Capt. David, military serv-
ice of, 366.

Williams, Capt. E. D., given knowl-
edge of mines in the Cape Fear
River, 500.

Williams, George W., 348.

Williams, John D., 348.
Williams, Col. John Pugh, residence

of, 71.

Williams, J. S., 253.

Williams, Capt. Robert, service in
war and death of, 366; 303.
Williamson, Hugh, historian, quo-

ted, 556.

Willington, William, 465.

Willis, Rev. R. A., 631.

Willow Spring Branch, 161.

Wills, Rev. Mr., last rector of St.
James’s under the colonial gov-
ernment, 607, 608.

Wilmer, Bishop Richard H., 608.

Wilmington.

Action of patriots of 1766, $5,
96, 100-102; Bench and Bar, ac

count of, 174, 186, 187, 565, 566;

Index 731

Wilmington, continued.
bill to incorporate rejected, 149;
boy home guards, 414; British
occupation of, 114, 118, 608;
British evacuation of, 116;
business and professional men
of 1850, 198-200; Cape Fear pa-
triots enter into an association
in, 95; capture of, 495-499;
changes in during the war,
283-289; commerce and trade
of, 156-158, 197, 198, 501-514,
686; Committee on Internal
Improvements, 148; Committee
of Safety, action of, 8, 54, 110-
112, 358; Committee of the Sons
of Liberty, 106-109; custom
house, account of new building,
594-597; defence of, 113, 495-
499, 484, 485; during the
blockade, 483-492; entrepdét of
the Confederacy, 389; erection
of, 45-49; fire companies. ac-
count of, 537, 538; fires in, 140-
144, 534-537, 230, 231; first
commissioners of, 48; growth
of, 139, 683-685; importance of
to the Confederacy, 282, 283,
295, 392; incorporation of, 46-
49; jobbing business in, 684;
manufacturers in, 684; mer-
chant shipbuilders in, 145, 156;
military companies and officers
of (1861-65), 273; “minute
men” of 1861, action of, 275,
295; municipal government in,
account of, 174, 549-553; popu-
lation of, (1781) 114, (1791)
209, (1820) 139, (1840) 162,
180; port of, 507; port of dur-
ing the war, 389-393; President
Wilson’s youth in, 542, 543;
public spirit and enterprise of,
145, 196, 197; public utilities
in, 676, 677; results of the
Revolution sof 1898 in, 555;
Situation of, 7, 683; subscribers

for improvements of Cape Fear
River, 145; taxable property in,
684; threatened by British, 113;

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Wilmington, continued.
visits of presidents to, 208-213,
540-542; war prices in, 288, 413;
yellow fever in, 140, 284-287,
356, 447.

Wilmington, boat on the Charleston
line, 169, 195, 459.

Wilmington, colonial trading ves-
sel, 39.

Wilmington in the Forties.
Annual hiring of slaves, 179,
180; buildings, 184, 188-190;
conditions and customs, 162-
164; conduct of traffic, 167;
courts and judges, 174, 193, 194;
elections, 175; fire of January
17 and 18, 1840, 189-191; Har-
rison log cabin in Wilmington,
176, 177; lawyers, 187 (See
Wilmington Bench and Bar);
mail routes and postage, 165,
166; manner of conducting
business, 166-168; militia, 173,
174, 193, 194; morus multicaulis
craze, 168; newspapers, 177-179,
180, 181; physicians and medi-
cal practice, 164, 182-184; popu-
lation, 162, 180; presidential
campaign of 1840, 175-177, 189;
railroads, condition of, 196;
river boats and their command-
ers, 195 (See steamboat line to
Charleston); river lighting, 196
(See Cape Fear River); schools
and teachers, 164, 165, 170-173,
174, 186, 191, 192; topography
of Wilmington, 159-162, 164;

town comMissioners, 174;
trade, 166; truck farming, 168,

169, 173; Washingtonian tem-
perance movement, 166; whip-
ping post, 187; W. and W. Rail-
road, 194-196. (See Railroads.)

Wimble, James, assists in laying out
Newton, 45.

Wimble’s map, reference to, 2, 7.
Winder, Capt. John C., chief engi-

neer in Cape Fear defences,
281; 308.

Wingate, E. H., 252.