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| A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico | Sarah A. Dorsey | 338 |
| Address in Congress, 1800, on the Death of Washington | Henry Lee | 124 |
| A Dream of the South Wind | Paul H. Hayne | 349 |
| Advice to His Nephew | George Washington | 76 |
| A Health | E. C. Pinkney | 232 |
| Alamo, Fall of the | 192 |
| A Learned and Interesting Conversation | Augusta E. Wilson | 384 |
| Allen, James Lane | 398 |
| Anecdotes of Alexander H. Stephens | 296, 297 |
| An Honest Man | George Washington | 73 |
| Ante-bellum Civilization | Henry W. Grady | 416 |
| Arber, Professor, on John Smith’s Writings | 35 |
| A Sage Conversation | A. B. Longstreet | 182 |
| Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina | Christian Reid | 409 |
| Ascent of the James River, 1607 | John Smith | 42 |
| Ashby | John R. Thompson | 318 |
| Audubon, John James | 153 |
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| Bacon, Nathaniel | 330 |
| Bagby, George William | 332 |
| Baldwin, Joseph G. | 294 |
| Barbe, Waitman | 441 |
| Battle of Noewee, 1776 | John Drayton | 129 |
| Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 | Sam Houston | 193 |
| Battle of the Blue Licks, Ky., 1782 | 400 |
| Battle of Tohopeka, or Horse-Shoe Bend, Ala. | 302 |
| Bear Hunt | David Crockett | 175 |
| Beauvoir | 270, 273 |
| Beautiful and the Poetical, The, | Jas. Wood Davidson | 373 |
| Beauty is Holiness | 395 |
| Benton, Thomas Hart | 158 |
| “Be sure you are right,” | David Crockett | 178 |
| Big John, on the Cherokees | Bill Arp | 327 |
| Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith) | 326 |
| Bivouac of the Dead | Theodore O’Hara | 308 |
| Blind Preacher | William Wirt | 132 |
| Boone, Daniel | 401 |
| British Treaty with the Cherokees, 1755 | David Ramsay | 105 |
| Burning of Jamestown, 1676 | St. George H. Tucker | 330 |
| Byrd, Evelyn | 56 |
| Byrd, William | 54 |
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| Calhoun, John Caldwell | 161 |
| Calhoun and the Union | 275 |
| Calhoun, Death of | 300 |
| Capture of Fort Motte | Henry Lee | 120 |
| Cause of the Texan War of Independence | Sam Houston | 190 |
| Cawein, Madison | 442 |
| Changes Wrought by the War | Z. B. Vance | 360 |
| Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives | 431 |
| Character of Washington | James Madison | 112 |
| Cherokees, Big John on the | Bill Arp | 327 |
| Clay, Henry | 147 |
| Closing Year, The | George D. Prentice | 228 |
| Commerce and Wealth vs. War | Hugh S. Legaré | 217 |
| Conscience | George Washington | 74 |
| Cooke, Philip Pendleton | 305 |
| Cooke, John Esten | 350 |
| Corn-Shucking and Christmas Times | 362 |
| Country Gentleman in Virginia and His Wife | John P. Kennedy | 205 |
| Country Gentlemen | 360 |
| Cow-Boy’s Song | 339 |
| Craddock, Charles Egbert, (Miss M. N. Murfree) | 423 |
| Crockett, David | 173 |
| Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe | 321 |
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| Dale, General Sam | 302 |
| Dandridge, Mrs. Danske | 429 |
| Daughter of Mendoza | M. B. Lamar | 223 |
| Davidson, James Wood | 373 |
| Davis, Jefferson | 269 |
| Davis, Winnie | 270 |
| Davis, Mrs. Varina Jefferson | 271 |
| Davy Crockett’s Motto | 178 |
| Days of My Youth, or Resignation | St. George Tucker | 115 |
| Death of Calhoun | 300 |
| Death of Lieutenant Herndon | 249 |
| Dedication Sonnet (to his Mother) | Robert Burns Wilson | 407 |
| Deep-Sea Soundings | M. F. Maury | 247 |
| Defence of Nullification | John C. Calhoun | 164 |
| Demosthenes | Hugh S. Legaré | 219 |
| DeSaussure, Judge, and Social Dining in Columbia | 201 |
| Discourses of Christ | Thomas Jefferson | 98 |
| Dismal Swamp | William Byrd | 61 |
| Dixie | 444 |
| Dixie and Yankee Doodle | 319 |
| Doom of Occonestoga | Wm. Gilmore Simms | 255 |
| Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne | 336 |
| Drayton, William Henry | 87 |
| Drayton, John | 127 |
| Dreaming in the Trenches | Wm. Gordon McCabe | 393 |
| Duel Between Randolph and Clay, 1826 | Thomas H. Benton | 159 |
| Duke of Saxe-Weimar in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, 1825 | Hugh S. Legaré | 221 |
| Duties of a Judge | John Marshall | 118 |
| Duty | Robert E. Lee | 266 |
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| England and America, Relations between | J. L. M. Curry | 322 |
| English Katie | Henry Timrod | 344 |
| Ennui | 101 |
| Establishment of the University of Virginia | George Tucker | 143 |
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| Fairbanks, George Rainsford | 311 |
| Fair Daughter of the Sun | Robert Burns Wilson | 406 |
| Farewell Address to the American People, 1796 | George Washington | 77 |
| Farewell to the Senate, 1861 | Jefferson Davis | 274 |
| Farewell to the Senate, 1861 | Robert Toombs | 286 |
| Father of His Country | Henry Lee | 124 |
| First Indian Baptism in America | Francis L. Hawks | 225 |
| “First in War, first in Peace” | 124 |
| Five Demands of the South | 286 |
| Florence Vane | Philip Pendleton Cooke | 305 |
| Fort King, Florida | 311 |
| Fort Motte, Capture of | Henry Lee | 120 |
| Freedom of Religious Opinion | Thomas Jefferson | 98 |
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| Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur | 235 |
| George the Third’s Abdication of Power in America | William Henry Drayton | 89 |
| Gladstone’s Opinion of the United States | 322 |
| Goliad, Massacre at | 192 |
| Grady, Henry Woodfen | 413 |
| Grave of Dr. Elisha Mitchell | 411 |
| Gulf Stream | M. F. Maury | 246 |
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| Hampton at the Battle of Noewee, South Carolina, 1776 | 130 |
| Happiness | Edgar Allan Poe | 281 |
| Harland, Marion (Mrs. M. V. Terhune) | 379 |
| “Harnt” that Walks Chilhowee, The | Charles Egbert Craddock | 423 |
| Harper’s Ferry, Scenery at | 95 |
| Harris, Joel Chandler | 401 |
| Harvest Home of the Indians | John Lawson | 53 |
| Hatchet Story | Mason L. Weems | 126 |
| Hawks, Francis Lister | 224 |
| Hayne, Robert Young | 185 |
| Hayne, Paul Hamilton | 346 |
| Hayne, William Hamilton | 346 |
| Helen, To | Edgar Allan Poe | 279 |
| Henry, Patrick | 82 |
| Hermitage, General Jackson at The | 271 |
| Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon | M. F. Maury | 249 |
| Hope, James Barron | 370 |
| Horse-Shoe Bend, Battle of | 302 |
| Houston, Sam | 189 |
| How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men | John P. Kennedy | 210 |
| How Ruby Played | George William Bagby | 332 |
| How to Answer Calumny | George Washington | 74 |
| How to Deal with the Indians | Sam Houston | 196 |
| Human Virtue | R. E. Lee | 266 |
| Humming-Bird, The | J. J. Audubon | 157 |
| Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery | Henry Timrod | 345 |
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| “If This Be Treason—” | Patrick Henry | 84 |
| “I’ll HAUNT you,” | 317 |
| Indian Doom of Excommunication | 255 |
| Israfel | Edgar Allan Poe | 279 |
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| Jackson, General, at Home | 271 |
| Jamestown, Burning of, 1676 | St. George H. Tucker | 330 |
| James Waddell, the Blind Preacher | William Wirt | 132 |
| Jefferson, Thomas | 91 |
| Jefferson’s Last Letter, June 24, 1826 | Thomas Jefferson | 101 |
| Jefferson’s Preference for Country Life | George Tucker | 142 |
| Jefferson’s Religious Opinions at Twenty | Thomas Jefferson | 94 |
| John Hook, Patrick Henry against | William Wirt | 135 |
| Johnston, Richard Malcolm | 314 |
| Jones, Charles Colcock, Jr. | 376 |
| Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing | George William Bagby | 332 |
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| Kennedy, John Pendleton | 204 |
| Key, Francis Scott | 151 |
| King, Grace | 437 |
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| La Fayette, Madison’s Opinion of | James Madison | 110 |
| La Grande Demoiselle | Grace King | 437 |
| Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte | 223 |
| Land Where We Were Dreaming, The | D. B. Lucas | 388 |
| Lanier, Sidney | 394 |
| Lanier, To Sidney | Waitman Barbe | 442 |
| La Rabida | 291 |
| Last Letter of Jefferson, June 24, 1826 | Thomas Jefferson | 101 |
| Laurens, Henry | 67 |
| Laurens, John, the “Bayard of the Revolution” | 67 |
| Laws of Government | A. H. Stephens | 297 |
| Lawson, John | 48 |
| Lee, Henry | 119 |
| Lee, Robert Edward | 265 |
| Lee’s Last Order | R. E. Lee | 266 |
| Lee’s Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College | R. E. Lee | 268 |
| Legaré, Hugh Swinton | 217 |
| Letter to Martha Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson | 100 |
| Le Vert, Madame Octavia Walton | 288 |
| Life Ever Seems—Sonnet | Henry Timrod | 344 |
| Life of the President of the United States | Jefferson Davis | 272 |
| Literary Society in Columbia in 1825 | Wm. C. Preston | 201 |
| Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin | 180 |
| Lost Colony of Roanoke | F. L. Hawks | 226 |
| Louisiana in 1750-’70 | C. E. A. Gayarré | 236 |
| Lucas, Daniel Bedinger | 387 |
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| Madam Washington at the Peace Ball | Marion Harland | 381 |
| Madison, James | 109 |
| Madison, Mrs. Dolly | 110 |
| Madison’s Opinion of La Fayette | James Madison | 110 |
| Magnolia Cemetery, Hymn for Dedication | Henry Timrod | 345 |
| Major Jones’s Christmas Present | W. T. Thompson | 368 |
| Marion Harland, (Mrs. M. V. Terhune) | 379 |
| Marion, Sumpter and | David Ramsay | 107 |
| Marion, the “Swamp-Fox” | Wm. Gilmore Simms | 262 |
| Marquis de Vaudreuil, the “Great Marquis” | 237 |
| Marse Chan’s Last Battle | Thomas Nelson Page | 421 |
| “Marseillaise of the Confederacy” | 389 |
| Marshall, John | 116 |
| Maryland, My Maryland | 390 |
| Mary Washington When a Girl | Marion Harland | 381 |
| Mary Washington’s Monument | Marion Harland | 379 |
| Master and Slave | 413 |
| Maury, Matthew Fontaine | 243 |
| Maxims of Jefferson | 94 |
| McCabe, William Gordon | 393 |
| M’Cord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah | 291 |
| M’Cord, D. J. | 201, 291 |
| Meek, Alexander Beaufort | 301 |
| Military Dinner Party | George Washington | 76 |
| Military Insubordination | Henry Clay | 148 |
| “Millions for Defence” | 116 |
| Mitchell’s Grave, Mt. Mitchell, N. C. | 411 |
| Mocking-Bird, The | J. J. Audubon | 155 |
| Mocking-Bird (At Night) | Paul H. Hayne | 348 |
| Mocking-Bird, To The | Albert Pike | 365 |
| Mocking-Bird and Nightingale Compared | 100 |
| Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery | R. M. Johnston | 315 |
| Murfree, Mary Noailles, (Charles Egbert Craddock) | 423 |
| Music in Camp | John R. Thompson | 319 |
| My Life Is Like the Summer Rose | R. H. Wilde | 179 |
| My Maryland | James R. Randall | 390 |
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| Naming of Tallahassee, The | 288 |
| Natural Bridge of Virginia | 97 |
| Ned Brace at Church | A. B. Longstreet | 180 |
| No Geographical Lines in Patriotism | Henry Clay | 148 |
| North Carolina in 1700–1708 | John Lawson | 49 |
| Not Bound by State Lines | Patrick Henry | 84 |
| Nullification, Defence of | John C. Calhoun | 164 |
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| Object-Lesson in the Cause of Patriotism | John Drayton | 128 |
| Occonestoga, Doom of | Wm. Gilmore Simms | 255 |
| October—A Sonnet | Paul H. Hayne | 349 |
| Official Patronage | John C. Calhoun | 167 |
| O’Hara, Theodore | 308 |
| Old Church at Jamestown | 39, 331 |
| On a Bear Hunt | David Crockett | 175 |
| Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles | George R. Fairbanks | 311, 312 |
| Our Right to Those Countries | John Smith | 38 |
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| Page, John, Letter to | 94 |
| Page, Thomas Nelson | 419 |
| Paragraphs | George D. Prentice | 231 |
| Partisan Leader | N. Beverley Tucker | 168 |
| Party Spirit | George Washington | 79 |
| Patrick Henry against John Hook | William Wirt | 135 |
| Patrick Henry’s Famous Revolution Speech | Patrick Henry | 84 |
| Patriot in the Tower | Henry Laurens | 68 |
| Payne, John Howard, among the Cherokees | 327 |
| Pike, Albert | 365 |
| Pinkney, Edward Coate | 231 |
| Plea for a Republic | James Madison | 111 |
| Pocahontas—Rescue of John Smith | John Smith | 35 |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | 276 |
| Poet’s Vision.—A Sonnet | William Gilmore Simms | 255 |
| Political Patronage | John C. Calhoun | 167 |
| Power of the Supreme Court | John Marshall | 117 |
| Powhatan | 35 |
| Preference for Country Life | George Tucker | 142 |
| Prentice, George Denison | 228 |
| Preston, Mrs. Margaret Junkin | 324 |
| Preston, William Campbell | 199 |
| Prologue to Arms and the Man | James Barren Hope | 371 |
| Prologue to Autobiography | David Crockett | 173 |
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| Races in Virginia, 1765 | John Esten Cooke | 351 |
| Ramsay, David | 103 |
| Randall, James Ryder | 389 |
| Randolph, John, of Roanoke | 137 |
| Raven, The | Edgar Allan Poe | 281 |
| Red Eagle, or Weatherford | A. B. Meek | 302 |
| Red Eagle and General Jackson | 304 |
| Reid, Christian, (Frances C. Fisher, Mrs. Tiernan) | 407 |
| Relations Between England and America | J. L. M. Curry | 322 |
| Religion and Morality | George Washington | 81 |
| Religious Freedom | Thomas Jefferson | 98 |
| “Remember the Alamo!” | 195 |
| Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas | John Smith | 35 |
| Resignation: or, Days of My Youth | St. George Tucker | 115 |
| Revision of the State Constitution | John Randolph | 138 |
| Revolutionary Object-Lesson | John Drayton | 128 |
| Revolution Speech, 1775 | Patrick Henry | 84 |
| Rives, Amélie (Mrs. Chanler) | 431 |
| “Rope of sand” | 186 |
| Rubinstein’s Playing | George William Bagby | 332 |
| Ryan, Abram Joseph, (Father Ryan) | 392 |
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| Sage Conversation, A | A. B. Longstreet | 182 |
| Salzburger Settlement in Georgia, 1734 | C. C. Jones, Jr. | 376 |
| Sang-Digger,[2] The | Amélie Rives | 432 |
| Savannah in 1735 | 378 |
| Scenery at Harper’s Ferry and at the Natural Bridge | Thomas Jefferson | 95 |
| Selecting the Site of Richmond and of Petersburg, 1733 | William Byrd | 58 |
| Seminole War | 313 |
| Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie, 1776 | David Ramsay | 106 |
| Sergeant Jasper at Savannah, 1779 | 107 |
| Sidney Lanier, To | Waitman Barbe | 442 |
| Siege of Fort Moultrie | David Ramsay | 106 |
| Simms, William Gilmore | 252 |
| Sketch in the Senate, February 5, 1850 | A. H. Stephens | 298 |
| Slavery, Remark on | Patrick Henry | 84 |
| Slave, Master and | 413 |
| Smith, Charles Henry (Bill Arp) | 326 |
| Smith, John | 33 |
| Smith, John, Writings of | 35 |
| Song of the Chattahoochee | Sidney Lanier | 396 |
| Sonnet: Dedication | R. B. Wilson | 407 |
| Song: We Break the Glass | E. C. Pinkney | 233 |
| Sonnet: Life ever seems | Henry Timrod | 344 |
| Sonnet: October | Paul H. Hayne | 349 |
| Sonnet: Poet’s Vision | William Gilmore Simms | 255 |
| South Before the War, The | Henry W. Grady | 413 |
| Southern Literary Messenger | 277, 317, 332 |
| Southern “Mammy” and the Children | 363 |
| Speaking of Clay in the Senate, 1850, The | 298 |
| Spelling and Grammar (Prologue to Autobiography) | David Crockett | 173 |
| Spirit and Wood-Sparrow, The | Danske Dandridge | 430 |
| Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795 | James Lane Allen | 399 |
| Spotswood, Ex-Gov., and his Home in 1732 | 58 |
| Star-Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key | 151 |
| State Sovereignty and Liberty | Robert Y. Hayne | 185 |
| Stephens, Alexander Hamilton | 296 |
| Stonewall Jackson’s Last Words | 324 |
| Storm Off the Bermudas | Wm. Strachey | 45 |
| Strachey, William | 45 |
| Sugar-Cane: Introduction into the United States | 236 |
| Sumpter and Marion | David Ramsay | 107 |
| “Swamp-Fox,” The | 262 |
| System of Our Government | John C. Calhoun | 164 |
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| Tanis | Amélie Rives | 432 |
| Tar-Baby, The | Joel Chandler Harris | 403 |
| Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia (Marion Harland) | 379 |
| Texas Prairie and Cow-Boy’s Song | 339 |
