Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction (115 page)
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Authors: Allen C. Guelzo
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Williams, Euphemia,
73
Wilmot, David,
66–67
Wilson, Edmund,
530
Wilson, William,
376
Winston, John A.,
28
Winthrop, Robert C.,
227
Wise, John A.,
361
Wister, Owen Jones,
139
Wister, Sarah Butler,
138–39
Wofford, William,
492
Wolseley, Sir Garnet,
289–90
and feminism,
49–50
and prostitution,
397
Women’s Central Relief Association (New York),
396
Women’s National Loyal League,
403
Wood, Sir Evelyn,
154
Wood, Fernando,
228
Work, Henry Clay,
495–96
World War, First,
95
Wyat, Bayley,
486
Yazoo City, Mississippi,
506
York River (Virginia),
166
Yorktown, Virginia,
164
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