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.

INDEX.

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]