the Toombs home at,360Washington County, escape through,299Waterloo, visit to field of,126Webster, Rev. Alexander,6Webster, Daniel, compared with Toombs,14;last efforts of,68;great Union speech of,79;tribute to,99,104,367;nominated for Presidency,99;admiration for, in the South,100;Secretary of State,100;friendship with Toombs,101;death,102,107;Hayne's challenge to,175;his loss felt,201Wellborn, Speaker,39Wesleyan Female College,9Western and Atlantic Railroad,40West Indies, effects of emancipation in,134,137West Point, Toombs' opinion of training at,246-249;criticism of officers from,273;criticism not sustained,275Wheeler, Gen. Joseph,301,303Whig party, demand internal improvements,40;attitude toward protection,46;in campaign of 1844,51,55;position in campaign of 1848,60;caucus of 1845,68-70;joint action with Democrats in Georgia,85;convention at Baltimore,97;Southern opposition to Presidential candidate Scott,98;nominates Webster for Presidency,99;break in, by Southern members,100;Toombs' defection from,105;rupture over Scott's nomination,121;absorption into Republican party,140Wilde, Gen., attempts the capture of Toombs,286Wilkes County, land-grant to Major Robert Toombs in,2;partition of lands in,3;birth-place of Gen. Toombs,4;legal practice in,15,16,22,23;factions in,29,30;politics of,32;defeat of Whigs in,37;assigned to Eighth Congressional District,44Wilkinson County, escape through,296Willington, S. C., speech at,45Wilmot, David, member of Twenty-ninth Congress,56Wilmot Proviso, Ohio's position in regard to,60;menace to the South,70,79;abandoned,79,87;Webster's attitude on,99,100;how characterized by Toombs,149Wingfield, J. T.,288Winthrop, Robert C., member of Twenty-ninth Congress,56;defeated for Speakership,69Wisconsin, debate on counting Electoral vote,193,194Wolseley, Gen., on Sherman's invasion of Georgia,281Worth, Fort, meeting with squatters at,153,154Wright, A. R., deputy to Provisional Congress,215Yancey, William L., member of Twenty-ninth Congress,56;leads seceders from Charleston convention,177;letter to Slaughter,177,178;speech in Charleston,178;commissioner to Europe,229Yorktown, Toombs' operations at,244,245"Young Alice,"300