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The Romance of the Civil War

  
[frontispiece]
  
[title page]
  
Preface
  
Contents
  
Descriptive List of Illustrations
  
INTRODUCTION FOR TEACHERS

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PART I ON THE PLANTATION
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1. Happy Days on the Plantation BY SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES (1840)
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2. Aunt Charity and the Speculator BY CHARITY BOWERY (1844)
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3. A Southern Planter's House BY EMILY BURKE (1845)
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4. The Kidnapper By MRS. KATE PICKARD (1848)
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5. Topsy's Arrival By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1852)
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6. Topsy's Education By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1852)
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7. How Friedman bought Peter By MRS. KATE PICKARD (1848)
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8. How Peter bought Himself By MRS. KATE PICKARD (1848)
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9. A Poor White's Opinion of Slavery BY HINTON RAVAN* HELPER (1857)
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10. A Pompous Old Negro By EDWARD ALBERT POLLARD (1858)
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11. A Slave Auction BY EDWARD ALBERT POLLARD (1858)
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PART II THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD AND THE CONTRABAND
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12. On the Underground Railroad By LEVI COFFIN (1850)
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13. "Zeke is Free" By REV. WILLIAM M. MITCHELL (1850)
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14. The Ways of Fugitives By REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE (1850)
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15. The Rescue of Jerry BY REV. SAMUEL JOSEPH MAY (1850
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16. Pass Him On By H. G. ADAMS (1854)
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17. John Brown's Raid By CAPTAIN DANGER FIELD (1859)
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18. Battle-hymn of the Republic By MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE (1866)
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19. Refugees from Slavery By ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1862)
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2O. A Quick-witted Negro By GEORGE HENRY GORDON (1863)
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21. Song for our Soldiers
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22. Scenes in Savannah By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1864)
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23. A Slave's Reminiscences By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1864)
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24. First School Days BY ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1865)
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25. Calling the Roll BY ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1865)
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26. A Colored Waif By ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1865)
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27. Contrabands BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1866)
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28. Hymn of Freedom By RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1863)
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PART III IN AND OUT OF THE ARMY
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29. Our Country's Call By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1861)
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30. Camp Life By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1862)
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31. On the Way to War By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1832)
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32. Song of the Soldiers By PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY (1862)
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33. A Guerilla Chief By Y B. ESTVAN (1862)
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34. Off for the Front By GEORGE F. NOYES (1862)
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35. The Innocent Deserter By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1862)
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36. The Hunt for the Scout By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1863)
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37. The Escape of the Scout By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1863)
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38. The Guilty Deserter By GEORGE H. GORDON (1863)
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39. Trumpet Song
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40. The Belligerent Quaker (1863)
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41. The Quaker's Escape (1863)
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42. A Courier's Evening By A TROOPER (1863)
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PART IV BOY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
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43. Young Farragut's Command By MIDSHIPMAN DAVID FARRAGUT (1813)
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44. Cadet Grant at West Point By ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1838)
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45. A Midshipman's Nightcaps By MIDSHIPMAN WILLIAM PARKER (1841)
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46. The Rear Admiral as Midship-man By MIDSHIPMAN SAMUEL RHOADES FRANKLIN (1841)
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47. A Young Officer in the War By SECOND LIEUTENANT ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1847)
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48. A Southern Officer to his Boys By CAPTAIN ROBERT E. LEE (1847)
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49. The Drummer Boy of Marble-head
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50. A Boy Soldier
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51. The Loyal Drummer-Boy (1861)
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52. The Dead Drummer-Boy
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53. A Middy's Experiences By ROBLEY D. EVANS (1862)
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54. Gone to the War By HORATIO ALGER, JR. (1861)
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55. A Boy who won the Cross BY A SOUTHERN LADY (1863)
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56. A Visit from Neptune By CORNELIUS E. HUNT (1863)
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PART V IN CAMP AND ON THE MARCH
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57. March! By BAYARD TAYLOR (1862)
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58. Tent Life By JOHN D. BILLINGS (1861)
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59. "Hardtack and Coffee" By JOHN D. BILLINGS (1861)
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60. On the March By CARLTON MCCARTHY (1861)
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61. The Chevalier of the Lost Cause By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON (1861)
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62. Old Heart of Oak By WILLIAM T. MEREDITH (1864)
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63. An Escape from Prison
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64. Escape from the Southern Lines By WILLIAM G. STEVENSON (1862)
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65. Hiding Provisions from the Soldiers By VICTORIA VIRGINIA CLAYTON (1862)
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66. In Camp with Grant By ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR CHARLES A. DANA (1863)
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67. A Turkey for a Bedfellow By CORPORAL JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1863)
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68. A Disappointing Dinner BY GENERAL GEORGE H. GORDON (1863)
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69. Stonewall Jackson as a Man BY A VIRGINIAN (1863)
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70. Three War Songs
  
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
  
THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM
  
TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP
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71. A Rainy Night By REVEREND GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)
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72. An Incident in the March to the Sea BY GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN (1864)
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73. Sheridan's Ride By THOMAS BUCHANAN READ (1864)
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PART VI UNDER FIRE
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74. A Private in Battle By CARLTON MCCARTHY (1861)
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75. The Cavalry Charge By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1864)
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76. Battle of Bull Run By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1861)
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77. Stonewall Jackson's Way By JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER (1862)
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78. Bridging the Rappahannock By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1862)
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79. A Cavalry Raid By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1862)
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80. On the Firing Line By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1863)
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81. Keenan's Charge By GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP (1863)
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82. The Federals are Coming! BY A SOUTHERN LADY (1863)
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83. Cave Life in a Besieged City By A SOUTHERN LADY (1863)
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84. Gettysburg By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1863)
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85. How the Negroes helped the Yankees By REVEREND GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)
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86. A Negro Regiment Under Fire By REVEREND GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)
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87. Chickamauga By COLONEL ROBERT L. KIMBERLY (1863)
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88. 0 Captain! My Captain! By WALT WHITMAN (1865)
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PART VII. ON DECK
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89. Attack on Fort Fisher By ROBLEY D. EVANS (1865)
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90. The Man Who made the Monitor By ADMIRAL DAVID PORTER (1863)
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91. The Little Monitor and the Merrimac By CHARLES MARTIN (1862)
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92. Chasing a Blockade-runner By CAPTAIN JOHN WILKINSON (1863)
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93. Sinking the Tecumseh By LOYALL FARRAGUT (1864)
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94. Running the Batteries By CAPTAIN ALFRED T. MAHAN (1862)
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95. Escape of the Sumter By CAPTAIN RAPHAEL SEMMES (1864)
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96. Passing the Forts on the Mississippi. By GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)
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97. An Unfortunate Cow By FRANC B. WILKIE (1862)
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98. Sinking the Albemarle By JOHN RUSSELL SOLEY (1864)
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PART VIII WOMEN AND THE WAR
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99. "How are you, Sanitary ?" By MARY ASHTON LIVERMORE (1863)
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100. Gifts for the Soldiers By MARY ASHTON LIVERMORE (1863)
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101. A Too Successful Tombola By ELIZA RIPLEY (1862)
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102. "I am a Southern Girl"
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103. The Yankee Wounded By B. ESTVAN (1863)
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104. A Nurse's Experience By LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1862)
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105. In the Hospital By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1863)
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106. Barbara Frietchie JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1863)
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107. A Midnight Flight BY ELIZA RIPLEY (1862)
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108. The Johnny Reb's Epistle to the Ladies By W. E. M. (1862)
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109. The Angel of the Battle-field By SURGEON JAMES L. DUNN (1862)

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75. The Cavalry Charge
By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1864)

OUR good steeds snuff the evening air,
Our pulses with their purpose tingle;
The foeman's fires are twinkling there;
He leaps to hear our sabres jingle!
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Halt!
Each carbine sent its whizzing ball:
Now, cling! clang! Forward, all,
Into the fight!
Dash on beneath the smoking dome:
Through level lightnings gallop nearer!
One look to Heaven! No thoughts of home;
The guidons that we bear are dearer.
Charge!
Cling! clang! Forward, all!
Heaven help those whose horses fall-
Cut left and right !
They flee before our fierce attack!
They fall! they spread in broken surges.
Now, comrades, bear our wounded back,
And leave the foeman to his dirges.
Wheel!
The bugles sound the swift recall:
Cling! clang! Backward, all!
Home, and good-night!
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