Lincoln's Boys

  Lincoln as westerner, 240–42, 281–84

  Manifest Destiny, 28, 30–31, 39

  Western Union, 204, 205

  Whig Party, Whigs, 23, 24

  antislavery politics and, 24, 27, 31–32, 39–41

  1840 presidential campaign, 65

  Lincoln’s affiliation, 40–41

  Whig newspapers, 36–37

  Whiskey Ring affair, 216

  White, Horace, 221, 303–4

  White House, 86–88, 107–8, 126

  after Lincoln’s death, 170

  in McKinley years, 331

  Whitman, Sarah Helen, 18

  Whitman, Walt, 269

  Whitney, Henry, 305

  Wide-Awakes, 65, 67

  Wills, David, 139–40, 142

  Wilmot, David, 24, 27–28, 43–44

  Wilmot Proviso, 24–25

  Wilson, Woodrow, 91, 321–22

  Winthrop, Robert, 32

  Wood, William, 76

  Young, John Russell, 91–92