| Halifax Station, Unknown | 289 |
| On the Capture of the Guerrière, Philip Freneau | 290 |
| Firstfruits in 1812, Wallace Rice | 291 |
| The Battle of Queenstown, William Banker, Jr. | 292 |
| The Wasp's Frolic, Unknown | 293 |
| The United States and Macedonian, Unknown | 293 |
| The United States and Macedonian, Unknown | 294 |
| Jack Creamer, James Jeffrey Roche | 295 |
| Yankee Thunders, Unknown | 296 |
| The General Armstrong, Unknown | 296 |
| Capture of Little York, Unknown | 298 |
| The Death of General Pike, Laughton Osborn | 299 |
| Old Fort Meigs, Unknown | 300 |
| The Shannon and the Chesapeake, Thomas Tracy Bouvé | 300 |
| Chesapeake and Shannon, Unknown | 301 |
| Defeat and Victory, Wallace Rice | 302 |
| Enterprise and Boxer, Unknown | 302 |
| Perry's Victory, Unknown | 303 |
| The Battle of Erie, Unknown | 303 |
| Perry's Victory—A Song, Unknown | 305 |
| The Fall of Tecumseh, Unknown | 305 |
| The Legend of Walbach Tower, George Houghton | 306 |
| The Battle of Valparaiso, Unknown | 307 |
| The Battle of Bridgewater, Unknown | 308 |
| The Hero of Bridgewater, Charles L. S. Jones | 309 |
| The Battle of Stonington, Philip Freneau | 309 |
| The Ocean-Fight, Unknown | 310 |
| The Lost War-Sloop, Edna Dean Proctor | 311 |
| On the British Invasion, Philip Freneau | 312 |
| The Battle of Lake Champlain, Philip Freneau | 312 |
| The Battle of Plattsburg Bay, Clinton Scollard | 313 |
| The Battle of Plattsburg, Unknown | 314 |
| The Battle of Baltimore, Unknown | 315 |
| Fort McHenry, Unknown | 316 |
| The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key | 317 |
| Ye Parliament of England, Unknown | 318 |
| The Bower of Peace, Robert Southey | 318 |
| Reid at Fayal, John Williamson Palmer | 319 |
| The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer, James Jeffrey Roche | 319 |
| The Armstrong at Fayal, Wallace Rice | 321 |
| Fort Bowyer, Charles L. S. Jones | 323 |
| The Battle of New Orleans, Thomas Dunn English | 323 |
| Jackson at New Orleans, Wallace Rice | 325 |
| To the Defenders of New Orleans, Joseph Rodman Drake | 326 |
| The Hunters of Kentucky, Unknown | 326 |
| The Constitution's Last Fight, James Jeffrey Roche | 327 |
| Sea and Land Victories, Unknown | 328 |
| Ode to Peace, Unknown | 329 |
| CHAPTER III |
| The West |
| The Settler, Alfred B. Street | 329 |
| The Mothers of the West, William Davis Gallagher | 330 |
| On the Emigration to America, Philip Freneau | 331 |
| John Filson, William Henry Venable | 331 |
| Sainclaire's Defeat, Unknown | 332 |
| Johnny Appleseed, William Henry Venable | 334 |
| The Founders of Ohio, William Henry Venable | 335 |
| Blennerhassett's Island, Thomas Buchanan Read | 335 |
| The Battle of Muskingum, William Harrison Safford | 337 |
| To Aaron Burr, under Trial for High Treason, Sarah Wentworth Morton | 338 |
| The Battle of Tippecanoe, Unknown | 339 |
| The Tomb of the Brave, Joseph Hutton | 339 |
| Sa-cá-ga-we-a, Edna Dean Proctor | 340 |
| On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, Joel Barlow | 341 |
| Whitman's Ride for Oregon, Hezekiah Butterworth | 342 |
| Discovery of San Francisco Bay, Richard Edward White | 343 |
| John Charles Frémont, Charles F. Lummis | 345 |
| "The Days of 'Forty-Nine," Unknown | 345 |
| The Old Santa Fé Trail, Richard Burton | 346 |
| California, Lydia Huntley Sigourney | 346 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| Through Five Administrations |
| Theodosia Burr, John Williamson Palmer | 346 |
| On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, John G. C. Brainard | 347 |
| On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck | 348 |
| On Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, John Pierpont | 348 |
| La Fayette, Dolly Madison | 349 |
| The Death of Jefferson, Hezekiah Butterworth | 349 |
| Old Ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 351 |
| Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson | 351 |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 351 |
| Old Tippecanoe, Unknown | 353 |
| The Death of Harrison, Nathaniel Parker Willis | 353 |
| CHAPTER V |
| The War with Mexico |
| The Valor of Ben Milam, Clinton Scollard | 354 |
| Ben Milam, William H. Wharton | 355 |
| The Men of the Alamo, James Jeffrey Roche | 355 |
| The Defence of the Alamo, Joaquin Miller | 357 |
| The Fight at San Jacinto, John Williamson Palmer | 357 |
| Song of Texas, William Henry Cuyler Hosmer | 358 |
| Texas, John Greenleaf Whittier | 358 |
| Mr. Hosea Biglow speaks, James Russell Lowell | 360 |
| The Guns in the Grass, Thomas Frost | 361 |
| Rio Bravo—A Mexican Lament, Charles Fenno Hoffman | 362 |
| To Arms, Park Benjamin | 363 |
| Monterey, Charles Fenno Hoffman | 363 |
| Victor Galbraith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 364 |
| Buena Vista, Albert Pike | 364 |
| The Angels of Buena Vista, John Greenleaf Whittier | 366 |
| The Bivouac of the Dead, Theodore O'Hara | 368 |
| What Mr. Robinson thinks, James Russell Lowell | 369 |
| Battle of the King's Mill, Thomas Dunn English | 370 |
| The Siege of Chapultepec, William Haines Lytle | 371 |
| Illumination for Victories in Mexico, Grace Greenwood | 371 |
| The Crisis, John Greenleaf Whittier | 372 |
| The Volunteers, William Haines Lytle | 374 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| Fourteen Years of Peace |
| The Ship Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Francis Lieber | 374 |
| The War Ship of Peace, Samuel Lover | 375 |
| On the Defeat of Henry Clay, William Wilberforce Lord | 376 |
| On the Death of M. D'Ossoli and his Wife, Margaret Fuller, Walter Savage Landor | 376 |
| The Last Appendix to "Yankee Doodle," Unknown | 376 |
| Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 377 |
| The Flag, James Jeffrey Roche | 378 |
| Kane, Fitz-James O'Brien | 379 |
| Herndon, S. Weir Mitchell | 380 |
| Blood is Thicker than Water, Wallace Rice | 380 |
| Baron Renfrew's Ball, Charles Graham Halpine | 382 |
| PART IV |
| THE CIVIL WAR |
| Battle-Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe | 384 |
| CHAPTER I |
| The Slavery Question |
| To William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier | 385 |
| Clerical Oppressors, John Greenleaf Whittier | 385 |
| The Debate in the Sennit, James Russell Lowell | 386 |
| Ichabod, John Greenleaf Whittier | 388 |
| The Kidnapping of Sims, John Pierpont | 388 |
| The Kansas Emigrants, John Greenleaf Whittier | 389 |
| Burial of Barber, John Greenleaf Whittier | 389 |
| The Defence of Lawrence, Richard Realf | 390 |
| The Fight over the Body of Keitt, Unknown | 391 |
| Le Marais du Cygne, John Greenleaf Whittier | 392 |
| How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 393 |
| The Battle of Charlestown, Henry Howard Brownell | 395 |
| Brown of Ossawatomie, John Greenleaf Whittier | 396 |
| Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown's Body, Charles Sprague Hall | 397 |
| John Brown, Edna Dean Proctor | 397 |
| John Brown: a Paradox, Louise Imogen Guiney | 397 |
| Lecompton's Black Brigade, Charles Graham Halpine | 398 |
| Lincoln, the Man of the People, Edwin Markham | 399 |
| Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 400 |
| Jefferson D., H. S. Cornwell | 401 |
| The Old Cove, Henry Howard Brownell | 401 |
| A Spool of Thread, Sophie E. Eastman | 402 |
| God save Our President, Francis DeHaes Janvier | 403 |
| CHAPTER II |
| The Gauntlet |
| Bob Anderson, my Beau, Unknown | 403 |
| On Fort Sumter, Unknown | 403 |
| Sumter, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 404 |
| The Battle of Morris' Island, Unknown | 404 |
| Sumter—A Ballad of 1861, Unknown | 405 |
| The Fight at Sumter, Unknown | 407 |
| Sumter, Henry Howard Brownell | 408 |
| The Great Bell Roland, Theodore Tilton | 408 |
| Men of the North and West, Richard Henry Stoddard | 409 |
| Out and Fight, Charles Godfrey Leland | 409 |
| No More Words, Franklin Lushington | 410 |
| Our Country's Call, William Cullen Bryant | 410 |
| Dixie, Albert Pike | 411 |
| A Cry to Arms, Henry Timrod | 411 |
| "We Conquer or Die," James Pierpont | 412 |
| "Call All," Unknown | 412 |
| The Bonnie Blue Flag, Annie Chambers Ketchum | 413 |
| I give my Soldier Boy a Blade, Unknown | 413 |
| CHAPTER III |
| The North gets its Lesson |
| The Nineteenth of April, Lucy Larcom | 414 |
| Through Baltimore, Bayard Taylor | 414 |
| My Maryland, James Ryder Randall | 415 |
| Ellsworth, Unknown | 416 |
| Colonel Ellsworth, Richard Henry Stoddard | 416 |
| On the Death of "Jackson," Unknown | 417 |
| The Virginians of the Valley, Francis Orrery Ticknor | 417 |
| Bethel, A. J. H. Duganne | 417 |
| Dirge, Thomas William Parsons | 419 |
| Wait for the Wagon, Unknown | 419 |
| Upon the Hill before Centreville, George Henry Boker | 420 |
| Manassas, Catherine M. Warfield | 423 |
| A Battle Ballad, Francis Orrery Ticknor | 424 |
| The Run from Manassas Junction, Unknown | 425 |
| On to Richmond, John R. Thompson | 426 |
| Cast Down, but not Destroyed, Unknown | 427 |
| Shop and Freedom, Unknown | 428 |
| The C. S. A. Commissioners, Unknown | 428 |
| Death of the Lincoln Despotism, Unknown | 429 |
| Jonathan to John, James Russell Lowell | 430 |
| A New Song to an Old Tune, Unknown | 432 |
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| CHAPTER IV |
| The Grand Army of the Potomac |
| Civil War, Charles Dawson Shanly | 432 |
| The Picket-Guard, Ethel Lynn Beers | 433 |
| Tardy George, Unknown | 433 |
| How McClellan took Manassas, Unknown | 434 |
| Wanted—A Man, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 435 |
| The Gallant Fighting "Joe," James Stevenson | 436 |
| Kearny at Seven Pines, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 437 |
| The Burial of Latané, John R. Thompson | 437 |
| The Charge by the Ford, Thomas Dunn English | 438 |
| Dirge for Ashby, Margaret Junkin Preston | 439 |
| Malvern Hill, Herman Melville | 439 |
| A Message, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 440 |
| Three Hundred Thousand More, James Sloan Gibbons | 440 |
| Cedar Mountain, Annie Fields | 441 |
| "Our Left," Francis Orrery Ticknor | 441 |
| Dirge for a Soldier, George Henry Boker | 442 |
| The Reveille, Bret Harte | 442 |
| Beyond the Potomac, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 443 |
| Barbara Frietchie, John Greenleaf Whittier | 444 |
| Marthy Virginia's Hand, George Parsons Lathrop | 445 |
| The Victor of Antietam, Herman Melville | 445 |
| The Crossing at Fredericksburg, George Henry Boker | 446 |
| At Fredericksburg, John Boyle O'Reilly | 447 |
| Fredericksburg, Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 449 |
| By the Potomac, Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 449 |
| The Washers of the Shroud, James Russell Lowell | 450 |
| CHAPTER V |
| The War in the West |
| The Little Drummer, Richard Henry Stoddard | 451 |
| The Death of Lyon, Henry Peterson | 453 |
| Zagonyi, George Henry Boker | 453 |
| Battle of Somerset, Cornelius C. Cullen | 454 |
| Zollicoffer, Henry Lynden Flash | 454 |
| Boy Brittan, Forceythe Willson | 455 |
| Albert Sidney Johnston, Kate Brownlee Sherwood | 456 |
| Albert Sidney Johnston, Francis Orrery Ticknor | 457 |
| Beauregard, Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 457 |
| The Eagle of Corinth, Henry Howard Brownell | 458 |
| The Battle of Murfreesboro, Kinahan Cornwallis | 459 |
| Little Giffen, Francis Orrery Ticknor | 460 |
| The Battle Autumn of 1862, John Greenleaf Whittier | 460 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| The Coast and the River |
| At Port Royal, John Greenleaf Whittier | 461 |
| Ready, Phœbe Cary | 461 |
| The Daughter of the Regiment, Clinton Scollard | 462 |
| The Turtle, Unknown | 462 |
| The Attack, Thomas Buchanan Read | 463 |
| The Cumberland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 464 |
| On Board the Cumberland, George Henry Boker | 464 |
| The Cumberland, Herman Melville | 466 |
| How the Cumberland went down, S. Weir Mitchell | 466 |
| The Cruise of the Monitor, George Henry Boker | 467 |
| The Sinking of the Merrimack, Lucy Larcom | 468 |
| The River Fight, Henry Howard Brownell | 468 |
| The Ballad of New Orleans, George Henry Boker | 472 |
| The Varuna, George Henry Boker | 474 |
| The Surrender of New Orleans, Marion Manville | 475 |
| Mumford, Ina M. Porter | 476 |
| Butler's Proclamation, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 476 |
| CHAPTER VII |
| Emancipation |
| To John C. Frémont, John Greenleaf Whittier | 477 |
| Astræa at the Capitol, John Greenleaf Whittier | 478 |
| Boston Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson | 478 |
| The Proclamation, John Greenleaf Whittier | 480 |
| Treason's Last Device, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 480 |
| Laus Deo, John Greenleaf Whittier | 481 |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| The "Grand Army's" Second Campaign |
| Mosby at Hamilton, Madison Cawein | 482 |
| John Pelham, James Ryder Randall | 482 |
| Hooker's Across, George Henry Boker | 483 |
| Stonewall Jackson's Way, John Williamson Palmer | 483 |
| Keenan's Charge, George Parsons Lathrop | 484 |
| "The Brigade must not know, Sir," Unknown | 485 |
| Stonewall Jackson, Henry Lynden Flash | 486 |
| The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson, Sidney Lanier | 486 |
| Under the Shade of the Trees, Margaret Junkin Preston | 486 |
| The Ballad of Ishmael Day, Unknown | 487 |
| Riding with Kilpatrick, Clinton Scollard | 488 |
| Gettysburg, Edmund Clarence Stedman | 489 |
| The High Tide at Gettysburg, Will Henry Thompson | 491 |
| Gettysburg, James Jeffrey Roche | 492 |
| The Battle-Field, Lloyd Mifflin | 492 |
| John Burns of Gettysburg, Bret Harte | 493 |
| Kentucky Belle, Constance Fenimore Woolson | 494 |
| The Draft Riot, Charles de Kay | 496 |
| Lincoln at Gettysburg, Bayard Taylor | 497 |
| CHAPTER IX |
| With Grant on the Mississippi |
| Running the Batteries, Herman Melville | 498 |
| Before Vicksburg, George Henry Boker | 499 |
| Vicksburg, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 499 |
| The Battle-Cry of Freedom, George Frederick Root | 500 |
| The Black Regiment, George Henry Boker | 500 |
| The Ballad of Chickamauga, Maurice Thompson | 501 |
| Thomas at Chickamauga, Kate Brownlee Sherwood | 502 |
| Garfield's Ride at Chickamauga, Hezekiah Butterworth | 503 |
| The Battle of Lookout Mountain, George Henry Boker | 505 |
| The Battle in the Clouds, William Dean Howells | 506 |
| Charleston, Henry Timrod | 507 |
| The Battle of Charleston Harbor, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 507 |
| Bury Them, Henry Howard Brownell | 508 |
| Twilight on Sumter, Richard Henry Stoddard | 509 |
| CHAPTER X |
| The Final Struggle |
| Put it Through, Edward Everett Hale | 509 |
| Logan at Peach Tree Creek, Hamlin Garland | 510 |
| A Dirge for McPherson, Herman Melville | 511 |
| With Corse at Allatoona, Samuel H. M. Byers | 511 |
| Allatoona, Unknown | 512 |
| Sherman's March to the Sea, Samuel H. M. Byers | 512 |
| The Song of Sherman's Army, Charles Graham Halpine | 513 |
| Marching through Georgia, Henry Clay Work | 513 |
| Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, Walt Whitman | 514 |
| Sherman's in Savannah, Oliver Wendell Holmes | 514 |
| Savannah, Alethea S. Burroughs | 514 |
| Carolina, Henry Timrod | 515 |
| Charleston, Paul Hamilton Hayne | 515 |
| Romance, William Ernest Henley | 516 |
| The Foe at the Gates, John Dickson Bruns | 516 |
| Ulric Dahlgren, Kate Brownlee Sherwood | 517 |
| Lee to the Rear, John Randolph Thompson | 518 |
| Can't, Harriet Prescott Spofford | 519 |
| Obsequies of Stuart, John Randolph Thompson | 519 |
| A Christopher of the Shenandoah, Edith M. Thomas | 520 |
| Sheridan at Cedar Creek, Herman Melville | 521 |
| Sheridan's Ride, Thomas Buchanan Read | 521 |
| The Year of Jubilee, Henry Clay Work | 522 |
| Virginia Capta, Margaret Junkin Preston | 523 |
| The Fall of Richmond, Herman Melville | 523 |
| The Surrender at Appomattox, Herman Melville | 524 |
| Lee's Parole, Marion Manville | 524 |
| Robert E. Lee, Julia Ward Howe | 524 |
| CHAPTER XI |
| Winslow and Farragut |
| The Eagle and Vulture, Thomas Buchanan Read | 525 |
| Kearsarge and Alabama, Unknown | 526 |
| Kearsarge, S. Weir Mitchell | 526 |
| The Alabama, Maurice Bell | 527 |
| Craven, Henry Newbolt | 527 |
| Farragut, William Tuckey Meredith | 528 |
| Through Fire in Mobile Bay, Unknown | 529 |
| The Bay Fight, Henry Howard Brownell | 530 |
| "Albemarle" Cushing, James Jeffrey Roche | 535 |
| At the Cannon's Mouth, Herman Melville | 537 |
| CHAPTER XII |
| The Martyr President |
| Lincoln, S. Weir Mitchell | 537 |
| O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman | 537 |
| The Dead President, Edward Rowland Sill | 538 |