| PAGE | |
| The First English Settlements | [48] |
| Early Settlements in East Mass. | [78] |
| Middle Colonies | [116] |
| Washington's Route to Fort LeBœuf | [139] |
| Lake Champlain | [142] |
| Quebec in 1759 | [145] |
| Vicinity of Boston | [160] |
| New York and Vicinity | [168] |
| Central New Jersey | [170] |
| Hudson River | [174] |
| Philadelphia and Vicinity | [176] |
| The Carolinas | [186] |
| Western Battlefields of the War of 1812 | [223] |
| Operations about Niagara | [235] |
| Vicinity of Manassas Junction | [288] |
| Vicinity of Richmond, 1862 | [298] |
| Vicksburg and Vicinity, 1863 | [303] |
| Sherman's Atlanta Campaign | [312] |
| Operations in Virginia, 1864 and 1865 | [318] |
PORTRAITS.
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| George Washington | [10] |
| Christopher Columbus | [25] |
| Pedro Menendez | [33] |
| Samuel Champlain | [39] |
| Sebastian Cabot | [42] |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | [44] |
| Captain John Smith | [60] |
| Peter Stuyvesant | [96] |
| William Penn | [119] |
| Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore | [123] |
| James Oglethorpe | [131] |
| Patrick Henry | [152] |
| Marquis de La Fayette | [173] |
| Benjamin Franklin | [179] |
| Paul Jones | [186] |
| General Greene | [193] |
| John Adams | [211] |
| Thomas Jefferson | [214] |
| James Madison | [221] |
| James Monroe | [244] |
| Henry Clay | [247] |
| John Quincy Adams | [248] |
| Andrew Jackson | [250] |
| Daniel Webster | [251] |
| Martin Van Buren | [254] |
| William Henry Harrison | [257] |
| John Tyler | [257] |
| James K. Polk | [261] |
| John Charles Fremont | [263] |
| Zachary Taylor | [269] |
| Millard Fillmore | [270] |
| Franklin Pierce | [273] |
| James Buchanan | [275] |
| Abraham Lincoln | [281] |
| George B. McClellan | [291] |
| Robert E. Lee | [299] |
| Stonewall Jackson | [307] |
| William T. Sherman | [311] |
| Joseph E. Johnston | [313] |
| Philip H. Sheridan | [317] |
| Andrew Johnson | [323] |
| Ulysses S. Grant | [328] |
| Horace Greeley | [331] |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | [337] |
| Oliver P. Morton | [342] |
| James A. Garfield | [344] |
| Chester A. Arthur | [346] |
| Grover Cleveland | [350] |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | [356] |
| Benjamin Harrison | [361] |
INTRODUCTION.
THERE are several Periods in the history of the United States. It is important for the student to understand these at the beginning. Without such an understanding his notion of our country's history will be confused and his study rendered difficult.
2. First of all, there was a time when the Western continent was under the dominion of the Red men. The savage races possessed the soil, hunted in the forests, roamed over the prairies. This is the Primitive Period in American history.
3. After the discovery of America, the people of Europe were for a long time engaged in exploring the New World and in becoming familiar with its shape and character. For more than a hundred years, curiosity was the leading passion with the adventurers who came to our shores. Their disposition was to go everywhere and settle nowhere. These early times may be called the Period of Voyage and Discovery.
4. Next came the time of planting colonies. The adventurers, tired of wandering about, became anxious to found new States in the wilderness. Kings and queens turned their attention to the work of colonizing the New World. Thus arose a third period—the Period of Colonial History.