CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| THE BON HOMME RICHARD AND THE SERAPIS | [Frontispiece] | |
| PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (Second Paper) | Warren Upham | [255] |
| (Sec’y Minn. Historical Society) | ||
| THE RECORD OF REDDING | Charles Burr Todd | [266] |
| CIVIL WAR SKETCHES (Second Paper) | ||
| Confederate Finance in Alabama | Walter L. Fleming | [274] |
| (Prof. of History, West Va. University) | ||
| THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS (First Paper) | Rev. Livingston Rowe Schuyler | [283] |
| UNPUBLISHED POEM—The Autograph | Thomas Dunn English | [288] |
| THE THIRTIETH OF MAY (Poem) | Mrs. E. M. Adams | [289] |
| ANTIQUITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST AND THEIR PRESERVATION | Prof. Edgar L. Hewett | [291] |
| (Of the National Museum, Washington) | ||
| JOHN PAUL JONES’ FELLOW OFFICERS | Edgar Stanton Maclay | [301] |
| THE MOONLIGHT BATTLE—Note by the Editor. | [304] | |
| BURLEIGH—AND JOHNSON’S ISLAND | Frederick J. Shepard | [306] |
| (Of the Buffalo Public Library) | ||
| ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS | ||
| Letter of Robert Stuart to Secretary of War Spencer | [316] | |
| Letter of Edgar Allan Poe to William Poe | [317] | |
| Letter of Abraham Lincoln about a Deserter | [320] | |
| Letter of Washington about a Deserter | [320] | |
| Letter of Col. Barnard Beekman, C. S. A. | [321] | |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETIES | [322] | |
| COMMUNICATIONS | [323] | |
| MINOR TOPICS | [323] | |
| BOOK NOTICES | [324] | |
| Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt | ||
| Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. | ||
From the original painting by Birch
THE MOONLIGHT BATTLE
THE “BON HOMME RICHARD” AND THE “SERAPIS” SEPT. 23, 1779
THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY
WITH NOTES AND QUERIES
| Vol. I | MAY, 1905. | No. 5 |