ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author acknowledges her indebtedness to the following authors and publishers for their courtesy in allowing the use of copyright material: to Mr. Wallace Rice for “Wheeler’s Brigade at Santiago”; to Mr. Charles Francis Adams for “Pine and Palm”; to Mr. Will Allen Dromgoole for “Soldiers”; to Mr. John Howard Jewett for a selection from “Rebel Flags”; to Mr. John Trotwood Moore for “Old Glory at Shiloh”; to Mr. Henry Holcomb Bennett for “The Flag Goes By”; to Mr. Clinton Scollard for “On the Eve of Bunker Hill”; to P. J. Kenedy and Sons for “The Conquered Banner” by Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan; to David MacKay for “Death of Grant” by Walt Whitman; to J. B. Lippincott Company for “The Cruise of the Monitor” by George H. Boker; to B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, publishers of Timrod’s Memorial Volume, for “Charleston” by Henry Timrod; to the Century Company for “Farragut” by William Tuckey Meredith; to Mr. Harry L. Flash and the Neale Publishing Company for “Stonewall Jackson” by Henry Lynden Flash; to Mr. Will Henry Thompson and G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “The High Tide at Gettysburg”; to Mr. Isaac R. Sherwood and G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “Albert Sidney Johnston” by Kate Brownlee Sherwood; to Mrs. Benjamin Sledd and G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “United” by Benjamin Sledd. An extract from “Home Folks” by James Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1900, is used by permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company. The poems, “Lexington” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Building of the Ship” and “The Cumberland” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Yorktown” by John Greenleaf Whittier, “Fredericksburg” by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Kearny at Seven Pines” by E. C. Stedman, and “Robert E. Lee” by Julia Ward Howe are printed by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.