| Henry Clay, 1777–1852 | 147 |
| To Be Right above All | 148 |
| No Geographical Lines in Patriotism | 148 |
| Military Insubordination | 148 |
| Francis Scott Key, 1780–1843 | 151 |
| The Star-Spangled Banner | 151 |
| John James Audubon, 1780–1851 | 153 |
| The Mocking-Bird | 155 |
| The Humming-Bird | 157 |
| Thomas Hart Benton, 1782–1858 | 158 |
| The Duel Between Randolph and Clay, 1826 | 159 |
| John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782–1850 | 161 |
| War and Peace | 164 |
| System of Our Government | 164 |
| Defence of Nullification | 164 |
| The Wise Choice | 166 |
| Official Patronage | 167 |
| Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1784–1851 | 167 |
| The Partisan Leader | 168 |
| David Crockett, 1786–1836 | 173 |
| Spelling and Grammar: Prologue To His Autobiography | 173 |
| On a Bear-hunt | 175 |
| Motto: Be Sure You Are Right | 178 |
| Richard Henry Wilde, 1789–1847 | 178 |
| My Life Is Like the Summer Rose | 179 |
| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1790–1870 | 180 |
| Ned Brace at Church | 180 |
| A Sage Conversation | 182 |
| Robert Young Hayne, 1791–1839 | 185 |
| State Sovereignty and Liberty | 185 |
| Sam Houston, 1793–1863 | 189 |
| Cause of the Texan War of Independence | 190 |
| Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 | 193 |
| How To Deal With the Indians | 196 |
| William Campbell Preston, 1794–1860 | 199 |
| Literary Society in Columbia, S. C., 1825 | 201 |
| John Pendleton Kennedy, 1795–1870 | 204 |
| A Country Gentleman in Virginia | 205 |
| His Wife | 207 |
| How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men | 210 |
| Hugh Swinton Legaré, 1797–1843 | 217 |
| Commerce and Wealth vs. War | 217 |
| Demosthenes’ Courage | 219 |
| A Duke’s Opinions of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, in 1825 | 221 |
| Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, 1798–1859 | 223 |
| The Daughter of Mendoza | 223 |
| Francis Lister Hawks, 1798–1866 | 224 |
| The First Indian Baptism in America | 225 |
| Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America | 226 |
| The Lost Colony of Roanoke | 226 |
| George Denison Prentice, 1802–1870 | 228 |
| The Closing Year | 228 |
| Paragraphs | 231 |
| Edward Coate Pinkney, 1802–1828 | 231 |
| A Health | 232 |
| Song: We Break the Glass | 233 |
| Charles Étienne Arthur Gayarré, 1805–1895 | 235 |
| Louisiana in 1750–1770 | 236 |
| The Tree of the Dead | 240 |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1806–1873 | 243 |
| The Gulf Stream | 246 |
| Deep-Sea Soundings | 247 |
| Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon | 249 |
| William Gilmore Simms, 1806–1870 | 252 |
| Sonnet—The Poet’s Vision | 255 |
| The Doom of Occonestoga | 255 |
| Marion, the “Swamp-Fox” | 262 |
| Robert Edward Lee, 1807–1870 | 265 |
| Duty—To His Son | 266 |
| Human Virtue—At the Surrender | 266 |
| His Last Order, 1865 | 266 |
| Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College | 268 |
| Jefferson Davis, 1808–1889 | 269 |
| Trip To Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to General Jackson | 271 |
| Life of the President of the United States | 272 |
| Farewell to the Senate, 1861 | 274 |
| Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849 | 276 |
| To Helen | 279 |
| Israfel | 279 |
| Happiness | 281 |
| The Raven | 281 |
| Robert Toombs, 1810–1885 | 284 |
| Farewell to the Senate, 1861 | 286 |
| Octavia Walton Le Vert, 1810–1877 | 288 |
| To Cadiz from Havanna, 1855 | 289 |
| Louisa Susannah M’Cord, 1810–1880 | 291 |
| Woman’s Duty | 292 |
| Joseph G. Baldwin, 1811–1864 | 294 |
| Virginians in a New Country | 294 |
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1812–1883 | 296 |
| Laws of Government | 297 |
| Sketch in the Senate, 1850 | 298 |
| True Courage | 301 |
| Alexander Beaufort Meek, 1814–1865 | 301 |
| Red Eagle, or Weatherford | 302 |
| Philip Pendleton Cooke, 1816–1850 | 305 |
| Florence Vane | 305 |
| Theodore O’Hara, 1820–1867 | 308 |
| Bivouac of the Dead | 308 |
