The Story of American History for Elementary Schools

by Albert F. Blaisdell

REFERENCE BOOKS AND SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR SUCCESSIVE PERIODS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

[Intended for use in connection with the study of this book.]

[Chapter I.] Pages 1-9.
AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—The following topics are thoroughly discussed in Fiske's Discovery of America:—

The People of Ancient America, Vol. I, pp. 1-19; Origin of the American Indians, Vol. I, p. 19; The Indians of the Pueblos, Vol. I, p. 82; The Mysterious Mound Builders, Vol. I, p. 140; Voyages of the Northmen to Vinland, Vol. I, p. 164.

References for Reading.—For a readable account of the Mound Builders and the American Indians, consult Shaler's The Story of Our Continent.

Outside Readings.—Starr's American Indians; The Voyages to Vinland from the Saga of Eric the Red, Old South Leaflets, No. 32; Glasscock's Stories of Columbia.

For Reading or Recitation.—Whittier's Norumbega and Norsemen; Longfellow's Skeleton in Armor.

[Chapter II.] Pages 10-30.
COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—Topics from Fiske's Discovery of America:—

First Voyage of Columbus, Vol. I, p. 419; Last Voyage of Columbus, Vol. I, p. 505; Vespucius and the "New World," Vol. II, p. 96; The Cabots and their Voyages, Vol. II, p. I; Ponce de Leon, Vol. II, p. 486; Adventures of De Soto, Vol. II, p. 509.

References for Reading.—Read selections from the one-volume edition of Irving's Life of Columbus; Abbott's Life of Columbus (Ajax Series); Adams's Columbus (Makers of America); Brooks's True Story of Columbus; Adventures of De Soto, Parkman's Pioneers of France in the New World, p. 13.

Outside Readings.—Griffis's Romance of American Discovery; Glasscock's Stories of Columbia; The Discovery of America, from the Life of Columbus, by his son, Ferdinand Columbus, Old South Leaflets, No. 29; Columbus's Letter to Gabriel Sanchez, describing the first voyage, Old South Leaflets, No. 33; Americus Vespucius's Account of his First Voyage, Old South Leaflets, No. 34; Death of De Soto, Old South Leaflets, No. 36; The Voyages of the Cabots, Old South Leaflets, No. 37.

[Chapter III.] Pages 31-46.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—For various topics in connection with Sir Walter Raleigh and Captain John Smith, see the Index to Fiske's Old Virginia and her Neighbours. Incidents in the Life of Captain John Smith: see John Esten Cooke's Virginia (American Commonwealth Series), pp. 22-76. The Story of Pocahontas, Cooke's Virginia, pp. 35-103.

References for Reading.—Towle's Raleigh, his Voyages and Adventures; Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion; Eggleston's and Seelye's Pocahontas (Ajax Series).

Outside Readings.—Towle's Magellan, or the First Voyage Round the World.

[Chapters IV] and [V]. Pages 47-72.
THE PILGRIMS.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—Many topics in connection with this chapter may be selected from Fiske's The Beginnings of New England, as, The Separatists, p. 66; Why the Pilgrims did not stay in Holland, p. 74; Voyage of the Mayflower, p. 80; The Pilgrims and the Indians, p. 83.

References for Reading.—Griffis's The Pilgrims and their Three Homes; Moore's Pilgrims and Puritans; Abbott's Captain Miles Standish (Ajax Series); Drake's On Plymouth Rock; Bacon's Historic Pilgrimages in New England.

Outside Readings.—Jane G. Austin's Standish of Standish, Betty Alden, Nameless Nobleman, and David Alden's Daughter.

For Reading or Recitation.—Mrs. Hemans's Landing of the Pilgrims; Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish; Bryant's Twenty-Second of December; Holmes's The Pilgrim's Vision.

[Chapter VI.] Pages 73-87.
THE INDIANS.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—For special topics about the Indians, see Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Vol. I, p. 1, also the Introduction to Parkman's Jesuits in North America.

References for Reading.—Brooks's Story of the American Indian; Drake's Indian History for Young Folks; Starr's American Indians; Shaler's The Story of Our Continent.

For Reading or Recitation.—Longfellow's Hiawatha.

[Chapter VII.] Pages 88-105.
THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—Henry Hudson: his voyages, voyage upon the Great River, his tragic fate, see Fiske's The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, Vol. I, pp. 83-95. William Penn: see the Index to Fiske's The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America.

References for Reading.—The Great Peace Maker (Penn) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's Peter Stuyvesant (Ajax Series).

Outside Readings.—Butterworth's Wampum Belt (Penn); Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York (humorous and satirical account of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland); Paulding's The Dutchman's Fireside (Colonial Life in New York).

[Chapter VIII.] Pages 106-125.
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—For a great variety of topics in connection with the French and Indian Wars and the overthrow of New France, the student will find the books of Parkman a vast storehouse of intensely fascinating reading matter. See the index to the various volumes. For example, read La Salle's Descent of the Mississippi, Parkman's La Salle, pp. 275-288; Braddock's March and Defeat; Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe, Vol. I, p. 204, and The Heights of Abraham, Vol. II, p. 259-297.

References for Reading.—Johnson's Old French War; Drake's Border Wars of New England.

Outside Readings.-Abbott's Life of King Philip (Ajax Series); Henty's With Wolfe in Canada; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (story of Seven Years' War); James Otis's At the Siege of Quebec.

[Chapter IX.] Pages 126-138.
EVERYDAY LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—The great storehouse of facts regarding the social and domestic life of the American people is McMaster's History of the People of the United States (5 vols. now ready). For topics see detailed index of each volume. Consult especially Vol. II, pp. 538-582, on "Town and Country Life in 1800." This work is somewhat voluminous for elementary work.

References for Reading.—Earle's Home Life in Colonial Days; Earle's Child Life in Colonial Days, Tavern and Stage Coach in Colonial Days; Earle's Sabbath in Puritan New England; Earle's Customs and Fashions of Old New England; Earle's Colonial Dames and Goodwives; Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies; Coffin's Building the Nation; Scudder's Men and Manners in America 100 years Ago; Wharton's Through Colonial Doorways; Wharton's Colonial Days and Dames; Fisher's Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times; Markham's Colonial Days; Hawthorne's Grandfathers Chair.

[Chapters X]-[XVIII]. Pages 139-295.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—For a series of topics on the American Revolution, to be read in connection with these nine chapters, consult the index to Fiske's American Revolution (2 vols.).

References for Reading.—For the Revolution as a whole the two best works for supplementary reading in schools are perhaps Lodge's Story of the Revolution and Fiske's War of Independence (Riverside Literature Series). Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution is voluminous but interesting, and fully illustrated.

Among the scores of excellent works which may be consulted, the following may be safely recommended: Coffin's Story of Liberty; Fiske-Irving's Washington and his Country; Abbot's Blue Jackets of '76; Bacon's Historic Pilgrimages in New England; C. H. Woodman's Boys and Girls of the Revolution; Brooks's Century Book of the American Revolution; Drake's Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777; Seawell's Paul Jones; Abbott's Paul Jones (Ajax Series); Brooks's Story of the American Sailor; Frost's Swamp Fox (Marion).

Outside Reading.—There are numerous books on the war of the Revolution suitable for outside reading. For the school grades for which this book is intended, the following books are interesting and for the most part instructive: Watson's Noble Deeds of our Fathers; Watson's Tea Party and Other Stories; Butterworth's Patriot Schoolmaster (Story of the Minute Men and Sons of Liberty); Otis's Signal Boys of 1775; Tomlinson's Stories of the American Revolution (several series); Stoddard's Red Patriot; Thompson's The Rangers or the Tory's Daughter; Thompson's Green Mountain Boys; Otis's Boys of Fort Schuyler; Patriot Boy (Washington) (Famous Boy Series); Father of his Country (Washington) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's Life of Washington (Ajax Series); Scudder's George Washington; Brooks's True Story of George Washington; Miss Hoppens's A Great Treason (Arnold and André); Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (last French or Seven Years' War); Cooper's Lionel Lincoln (Boston at time of Bunker Hill); Cooper's Pilot (Paul Jones).

These six novels by William Gilmore Simms furnish under the guise of fiction a connected and most readable account of the Revolution in the South from the fall of Charleston to 1782: The Partisan, Mellichampe, The Scout, Katherine Walton, The Foragers, The Eutaws.

See also Kennedy's Horse Shoe Robinson (South Carolina in the Revolution); Churchill's Richard Carvel (Paul Jones); Guerber's Story of the Thirteen Colonies; Guerber's Story of the Great Republic; Eggleston's First Book in American History; Johonnot's Stories of our Country; Mowry's First Steps in the History of our Country; Montgomery's Beginner's American History.

For Reading or Recitation.—Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride; Emerson's Concord Hymn; Holmes's Grandmother's Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill; Bryant's Song of Marion's Men; Pierpont's General Warren's Address; Finch's Nathan Hale; Bryant's Nineteenth of April; Simms's Ballad of King's Mountain.

[Chapter XIX.] Pages 296-310.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—For topics to be read in connection with the life and career of Franklin, see the index to Fiske's The American Revolution, Fiske's The Critical Period of American History (1783-1789), and Morse's Benjamin Franklin (American Statesmen Series).

References for Reading.—Franklin's Autobiography should be read before all other books on Franklin. Read also Printer Boy (Franklin) (Famous Boy Series); Poor Richards Story (Franklin) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's Benjamin Franklin (Ajax Series) and Parton's Life of Franklin.

Outside Readings.—Butterworth's True to his Home (Franklin); Brooks's True Story of Benjamin Franklin.

[Chapter XX.] Pages 311-322.
EVERYDAY LIFE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

This chapter is supplementary to Chapter IX on "Everyday Life in Colonial Times." The same works for collateral reading in connection with that chapter maybe equally serviceable for supplementary work for this chapter. Refer especially to the works of McMaster, Alice Morse Earle, Scudder, C. C. Coffin, Fisher, and Wharton.

[Chapter XXI.] Pages 323-338.
OUR NAVY IN THE WAR OF 1812.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—From this time to the present day McMaster's History of the People of the United States is a storehouse of important and interesting topics. See especially the chapter on "State of the People in 1812," Chapter III, p. 459, and various chapters in Vol. IV. Consult the detailed index to the several volumes for quick reference to the desired topics.

References for Reading.—Abbot's Blue Jackets of 1812; Brooks's Story of the American Sailor; Johnson's War of 1812; Lossing's History of the War of 1812; Roosevelt's Naval War of 1812; Lossing's Story of the United States Navy (for boys).

Outside Readings.—Barnes's Hero of Lake Erie (Commodore Perry); Seawell's Midshipman Paulding (Commodore Paulding); Seawell's Little Jarvis (cruises of the Constellation); Seawell's Decatur and Somers; George Cary Eggleston's three stories: Signal Boys, Captain Sam, and Big Brother.

For Reading or Recitation.—Holmes's Old Ironsides; Key's The Star-Spangled Banner.

[Chapter XXII.] Pages 339-352.
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC COAST.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—For special topics in connection with the settlement of the Pacific coast consult Barrows's Oregon and Royce's California (both volumes in the American Commonwealth's Series).

References for Reading.—Irving's Astoria and Dana's Two Years before the Mast were written many years ago, but present vivid pen-pictures of the early days on the Pacific coast.

[Chapters XXIII]-[XXV]. Pages 353-405.
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—The literature of the Civil War is so voluminous that the utmost care must be used in the selection of even the best books for collateral reading.

For school purposes two of the best briefer books for supplementary use are Champlin's Young Folks' History of the War for the Union and Dodge's Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War. Consult also Nichol's Story of the Great March (Sherman); Swinton's Twelve Decisive Battles of the War; Drake's Battle of Gettysburg; Morse's Abraham Lincoln, 2 vols. (American Statesmen Series).

References for Reading.—Abbot's Battlefields of '61; Abbot's Blue Jackets of '61; Soley's Sailor Boys of '61; Brooks's True Story of Abraham Lincoln; Brooks's True Story of General Grant; Brooks's Story of the American Soldier; Coffin's Days and Nights on the Battlefield; Coffin's Drumbeat of the Nation; Coffin's Redeeming the Republic; Coffin's Marching to Victory; Coffin's Freedom Triumphant; Cooke's Stonewall Jackson; Cooke's Robert E. Lee.

Outside Readings.—Blaisdell's Stories of the Civil War; Goss's Jed, a Boy's Adventures in the Army; Goss's Tom Clifton; Keiffer's Recollections of a Drummer Boy; Barnes's Midshipman Farragut; Henty's With Lee in Virginia; Page's Two Little Confederates.

For Reading and Recitation.—Read's Sheridan's Ride; Whittier's Barbara Frietchie; Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic; Bryant's Our Country's Call; Bret Harte's John Burns at Gettysburg; Whitman's O Captain! My Captain! (Death of Lincoln); Finch's Blue and the Gray; Miss Preston's Gone Forward (Death of General Lee); Longfellow's Cumberland; Boker's Black Regiment; Byers's Sherman's March to the Sea; Bryant's The Battlefield; Wilson's The Old Sergeant; Bryant's Abraham Lincoln; Higginson's Decoration; Bryant's Our Country's Call; Stedman's Sumter; Bayard Taylor's To the American People, and Scott and the Veteran; Holmes's Voyage of the Good Ship Union; Stedman's Wanted—a Man; Whittier's Battle Autumn of 1862, and Laus Deo.

[Chapter XXVI.] Pages 406-423.
THE WAR WITH SPAIN IN 1898.

The most useful book for schools is perhaps Henry Cabot Lodge's The War with Spain.

The following books are also useful: Brooks's Story of Our War with Spain; Abbot's Blue Jackets of 1898; Morris's The War with Spain; Davis's The War of 1898; and Spears's Our Navy in the Spanish War.

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INDEX.

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Alabama, career of the, [397] destroyed by Kearsarge, [397] claims for damage paid by England, [398]
Albemarle, destruction of the, [403]
America, in old days, [1] ancient, people of, [3]
André, meeting with Arnold, [276] capture of, [277] sad fate of, [281]
Appomattox, surrender of Lee at [380]
Arnold, Benedict, sent to relieve Fort Stanwix, [209] story of his treason, [271]-[285] brilliant military career, [273] begins his wicked career, [273] meeting with André, [275] escape of, [280] after life of, [281] death of, [283]
Barbary States, pirates of, [323]
Battles: Antietam, [365] Bennington, [213] Bon Homme Richard and Serapis, [290] Bull Run, [364] Bunker Hill, [170]-[183] Camden, [255] Cedar Creek, [381] Chancellorsville, [369] Chesapeake and Shannon, [331] Chickamauga, [377] Concord, [162] Constitution and Guerrière, [327] Cowpens, [264] Eutaw Springs, [269] Fair Oaks, [365] Forts Henry and Donaldson, [365] Freeman's Farm, [218] Gettysburg, [369] Hobkirk's Hill, [269] Kearsarge and Alabama, [397] King's Mountain, [261] Lake Erie, [333] Lexington, [160] Lookout Mountain, [377] Manassas, [364] Manila, [410] Mobile, [399] Monitor and Merrimac, [392] Monmouth, [239] New Orleans, [337], [390] Oriskany, [207] Princeton, [237] Santiago, [418] Saratoga, [219] Trenton, [233] Vicksburg, [375] Yorktown, [242]
Bennington, battle of, [213]
Bon Homme Richard, battle with Serapis, [290]
Boston boys and General Gage, [150]

Boston massacre, [151] tea party, [152] Port Bill, [155]
Braddock, expedition of, [118]
Buford massacre, [253]
Bull Run, battle of, [364]
Bunker Hill, battle of, [170]-[183] lesson taught by, [180] Monument, [183]
Burgoyne campaign, [198]-[221]
Cabots, John and Sebastian, [26] their voyages, [26], [27]
California enters the Union, [346] discovery of gold in, [346] rush to gold regions of, [348]
Camden, defeat at, [255]
Cedar Creek, Sheridan at, [383]
Cervera and Spanish fleet, [415]
Chancellorsville, battle of, [369]
Charleston, defense of, [251] capture of, [252]
Chesapeake, battle with the Shannon, [331]
Chickamauga, battle of, [377]
Churches in colonial times, [129]
Colonial times, everyday life in, [126]
Colonies begin to prosper, [141] tyrannical treatment of, [142]
Columbia River, discovery of, [341]
Columbus, Christopher, [10] early life of, [12] seeks aid, [14] first voyage of, [15] welcome on return, [19] other voyages, [20]-[23]
Concord Bridge, fight at, [162]
Congress, First Continental, [157] Second Continental, [190]
Constitution, battle with Guerrière, [327] her noble record, [330]
Cowpens, battle of, [264]
Cuba, barbarities in, [407] rebels against Spain, [406]
Cushing, daring exploit of, [402]-[405]
Decatur, exploits of, [324]
Deerfield, attack on, [112]
De Soto, Ferdinand, [28]-[30]
Dewey, Admiral, victory at Manila, [412] nation's reception of, [414]
Dustin, Hannah, story of, [113]
Dutch, settlement in New York, [92] how they lived, [93]
Emancipation of the slaves, [366] proclamation of, [367]
Erie, Lake, battle of, [333]
Eutaw Springs, battle of, [269]
Everyday home life one hundred years ago, [311]-[321]
Farragut, Admiral, [390] captures New Orleans, [391] captures Mobile, [399] in the rigging at Mobile, [401]
Fires, how put out one hundred years ago, [316]
Flag, American, first raised, [209]
Franklin, Benjamin, [296]-[310] early life of, [297] learns printer's trade, [297] goes to Philadelphia, [299] life in London, [301] career in Philadelphia, [302] famous kite experiment, [304] public career, [305] service as diplomatist, [309] last days of, [310]
Freeman's Farm, battle of, [218]
French in North America, [106]
French and Indian Wars, [110]
Gage, General, and Boston boys, [150] plans to capture military stores, [158]

Gates, General, [217], [255]
Gettysburg, battle of, [369]-[372] memorials of, [372] Lincoln's address at, [372]
Gold, Discovery of, in California, [347] effects of discovery, [348]
Grant, General, success in the West, [375]
Greene, General, takes command in South, [262] his masterly retreat, [265] rare generalship of, [268] brilliant campaign in South, [269]
Henry, Patrick, speech of, [147]
Herkimer, General, [206]
Hobkirk's Hill, battle of, [269]
Hobson, brilliant exploit of, [416]
Home life in colonial times, [134]
Hudson, Sir Henry, [88] enters Dutch service, [89] discovers Hudson River, [90] his sad fate, [92]
Independence, Declaration of, [184]-[197] what it said to the world, [191] how received, [194] incidents connected with, [195] what it should mean, [197]
Independence declared, [192] slow growth of the idea, [185] stern necessity of, [188] first steps towards, [190]
Indians, [4] principal divisions of, [4] Pueblo, [6] appearance and clothing, [73] food of the, [74] weapons and how they fought, [76] as hunters, [80] cunning and revengeful, [82] their children, [85] ally themselves with French, [111]
Jackson, Andrew, anecdote of, [254] wins the battle of New Orleans, [337]
Jackson, Stonewall, [369]
Jasper, Sergeant, bravery of, [251]
Jones, John Paul, begins his remarkable career, [287] daring deeds on English coast [288] interview with Franklin, [289] after life of, [294] battle with the Serapis, [290]
Kearsarge destroys the Alabama [397]
King's Mountain, battle of, [261]
La Salle, [107]
Laws, absurd and tyrannical, [143] resistance to, [147]
Lee, General Charles, at Monmouth, [240]
Lee, Robert E, [371]
Lewis and Clarke expedition, [341]
Lexington, battle of, [160]
Life, everyday, one hundred years ago, [311], [322]
Lincoln, Abraham, influence of mother, [353] reads good books, [354], [356] studies law, [357] chosen President, [359] death of, [383]
Lookout Mountain, battle of, [377]
Louisburg, capture of, [115]
Louisiana, purchase of, [340]
Maine, blowing up of the, [409]
Manila, naval victory at, [410]
Marion, General, [255]-[261] method of fighting of, [257] first exploits of, [258] famous exploits of, [259] visit from British officer, [260]

McCrea, Jane, murder of, [205]
Meade, General, [370]
Merrimac, attack on Union fleet, [392] battle with Monitor, [394]
Ministers and meeting-houses one hundred years ago, [318]
Minute-men, [167]
Mobile, capture of, [399]
Monitor, building of, [392] arrival of, [393] battle with the Merrimac, [394]
Monmouth, battle of, [239]
Montcalm, death of, [125]
Morgan, General, victory at Cowpens [264]
Naval operations on the Western rivers, [388]
Navy in the War of 1812, [323]-[338] at beginning of the war for the Union, [387]
New England, rally of people in defense of, [211]
New Orleans, battle of, [337] capture of, [365], [389]-[391]
Newspapers one hundred years ago, [311]
Northmen, [6]
Oregon saved to the Union, [342]
Pacific Coast, settlement of [339]-[352]
Pacific Railroad, first built, [353]
Penn, William, [97] becomes a Quaker, [98] establishes a colony in America, [100] kind treatment of Indians, [101] treaty with Indians, [102] his old age, [104]
Perry, Commodore, victory on Lake Erie, [333]
Pilgrims, story of, [47] home in Holland, [48] voyage across Atlantic, [51] sign compact, [52] explorations of, [53] hardships and suffering of, [60], [65] visit from Indians, [63] peep into houses of, [66] household furniture of, [69] daily fare of, [71]
Pitcher, Mollie, story of, [241]
Plymouth Rock, [59]
Pocahontas, romantic story of, [41]
Ponce de Leon, [27]
Pony Express, its history, [349]
Porter, Commodore, [376]
Porto Rico, campaign in, [420]
Postal service one hundred years ago, [312]
Potatoes first used in Europe, [33]
Princeton, battle of, [237]
Privateers, Confederate, [396]
Quakers, persecution of, [96]
Quebec, capture of, [123]
Railroad built to California, [352]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [31]
Revere, Paul, ride of, [159]
Review in Washington, grand, [385]
Richmond, capture of, [380]
Sailors, American, treatment of by British, [325]
Santiago, naval victory at, [418]
Saratoga, battle of, [219] effect of victory at, [220]
Savannah, capture of, [252]
Schoolmaster one hundred years ago, [320]
Schools and schoolmasters in colonial times, [131]

Schuyler, General, and Burgoyne campaign, [203]
Sheridan, General, [381] famous ride of, [381]
Sherman, W. T., General, [378] march to the sea, [379]
Shiloh, battle of, [375]
Slavery, a menace to the country, [358]
Slaves, emancipation of the, [366]
Smith, Captain John, [34] early career, [35] career in new world, [37] and Pocahontas, [40]
South, war of Revolution in, [250] cruel warfare in, [253]
Spain, downfall of, [406] colonial policy of [406] Cuba rebels against, [406] war declared against, [409] end of war against, [421]
Spanish fleet, preparations to meet, [415]
Stage coaches one hundred years ago, [314]
Stamp Act, [145]
Standish, Captain Miles, [54]
Stanwix, Fort, defense of, [208]
Stark, John, at Bennington, [213]
Steele, Mrs., anecdote of, [266]
Stuyvesant, Peter, [95]
Sumter, Fort, attack on, [361]
Sunday, in colonial times, [127] how kept one hundred years ago, [317]
Tablets, historic, [169]
Tea Party, Boston, [152]
Thomas, General, [377]
Ticonderoga, capture of, [201]
Tobacco, first use of by Europeans, [33]
Trenton, battle of, [233]
Union, War for, beginning of, [361] cost of, [384] situation after the, [386]
Valley Forge, sufferings at, [238]
Vicksburg, capture of, [375]
Virginia, first attempt to colonize, [32] starving time in, [44]
War, Civil, beginning of, [361] cost of, [384] situation after the, [386]
War of 1812, causes of, [326] results of, [338]
Warren, Joseph, [156] death of, [180]
Washington, George, first difficult task, [117] with Braddock's expedition, [118] boyhood and youth of, [222] as a surveyor, [224] as a colonial army officer, [226] advancement in political honors, [228] as commander-in-chief, [229] his many difficulties, [231] victory at Trenton, [233] victory at Princeton, [237] helps defeat Burgoyne, [237] plans Yorktown campaign, [242] elected President, [245] retires to private life, [246] death of, [248]
Washington, Colonel, anecdote of, [264]
Whitman, Dr., saves Oregon, [342] his perilous ride for Oregon, [344] success in his mission, [345]
Wolfe, capture of Quebec, [123]
Yorktown, plan of campaign, [242] victory at, [244]