TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I
THE COLONIAL PERIOD
America, Arthur Cleveland Coxe[2]
CHAPTER I
The Discovery of America
The Story of Vinland, Sidney Lanier[3]
The Norsemen, John Greenleaf Whittier[4]
The Skeleton in Armor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[6]
Prophecy, Luigi Pulci[7]
The Inspiration, James Montgomery[8]
Columbus, Lydia Huntley Sigourney[9]
Columbus to Ferdinand, Philip Freneau[9]
Columbus at the Convent, John T. Trowbridge[10]
The Final Struggle, Louis James Block[11]
Steer, Bold Mariner, On, Friedrich von Schiller[12]
The Triumph, Sidney Lanier[12]
Columbus, Joaquin Miller[14]
The Thanksgiving for America, Hezekiah Butterworth[15]
Columbus in Chains, Philip Freneau[17]
Columbus Dying, Edna Dean Proctor[18]
Columbus, Edward Everett Hale[18]
Columbus and the Mayflower, Lord Houghton[18]
CHAPTER II
In the Wake of Columbus
The First Voyage of John Cabot, Unknown[19]
The Legend of Waukulla, Hezekiah Butterworth[19]
The Fountain of Youth, Hezekiah Butterworth[21]
Ponce de Leon, Edith M. Thomas[22]
Balboa, Nora Perry[23]
With Cortez in Mexico, W. W. Campbell[24]
The Lust of Gold, James Montgomery[24]
Verazzano, Hezekiah Butterworth[25]
Ortiz, Hezekiah Butterworth[26]
The Fall of Maubila, Thomas Dunn English[27]
Quivíra, Arthur Guiterman[31]
Norembega, John Greenleaf Whittier[32]
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[34]
The First American Sailors, Wallace Rice[34]
CHAPTER III
The Settlement of Virginia
The Mystery of Cro-a-tàn, Margaret Junkin Preston[36]
John Smith's Approach to Jamestown, James Barron Hope[38]
Pocahontas, William Makepeace Thackeray[38]
Pocahontas, George Pope Morris[39]
Bermudas, Andrew Marvell[39]
Newes from Virginia, Richard Rich[40]
To the Virginian Voyage, Michael Drayton[42]
The Marriage of Pocahontas, Mrs. M. M. Webster[43]
The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain, Margaret Junkin Preston[43]
The Burning of Jamestown, Thomas Dunn English[44]
Bacon's Epitaph, Unknown[45]
Ode to Jamestown, James Kirke Paulding[46]
The Downfall of Piracy, Benjamin Franklin[48]
From Potomac to Merrimac, Edward Everett Hale[49]
CHAPTER IV
The Dutch at New Amsterdam
Henry Hudson's Quest, Burton Egbert Stevenson[50]
The Death of Colman, Thomas Frost[50]
Adrian Block's Song, Edward Everett Hale[51]
The Praise of New Netherland, Jacob Steendam[52]
The Complaint of New Amsterdam, Jacob Steendam[53]
Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call, Edmund Clarence Stedman[54]
CHAPTER V
The Settlement of New England
The Word of God to Leyden came, Jeremiah Eames Rankin[56]
Song of the Pilgrims, Thomas Cogswell Upham[57]
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Felicia Hemans[57]
The First Proclamation of Miles Standish, Margaret Junkin Preston[58]
The Mayflower, Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth[59]
The Peace Message, Burton Egbert Stevenson[60]
The First Thanksgiving Day, Margaret Junkin Preston[60]
The War-Token, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[61]
Five Kernels of Corn, Hezekiah Butterworth[62]
The Expedition to Wessagusset, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[63]
New England's Annoyances, Unknown[65]
The Pilgrim Fathers, William Wordsworth[66]
The Pilgrim Fathers, John Pierpont[66]
The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor, Hezekiah Butterworth[67]
The First Thanksgiving, Clinton Scollard[68]
New England's Growth, William Bradford[69]
The Assault on the Fortress, Timothy Dwight[70]
Death Song, Alonzo Lewis[70]
Our Country, Julia Ward Howe[71]
CHAPTER VI
Religious Persecutions in New England
Prologue, from "John Endicott," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[71]
Roger Williams, Hezekiah Butterworth[72]
God makes a Path, Roger Williams[72]
Canonicus and Roger Williams, Unknown[73]
Anne Hutchinson's Exile, Edward Everett Hale[73]
John Underhill, John Greenleaf Whittier[74]
The Proclamation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[76]
Cassandra Southwick, John Greenleaf Whittier[77]
The King's Missive, John Greenleaf Whittier[80]
CHAPTER VII
King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion
The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook, Edward Everett Hale[82]
The Great Swamp Fight, Caroline Hazard[83]
On a Fortification at Boston begun by Women, Benjamin Tompson[85]
The Sudbury Fight, Wallace Rice[85]
King Philip's Last Stand, Clinton Scollard[88]
Prologue, from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[88]
Salem, Edmund Clarence Stedman[89]
The Death of Goody Nurse, Rose Terry Cooke[90]
A Salem Witch, Ednah Proctor Clarke[91]
The Trial, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[92]
Giles Corey, Unknown[96]
Mistress Hale of Beverly, Lucy Larcom[97]
CHAPTER VIII
The Struggle for the Continent
St. John, John Greenleaf Whittier[99]
The Battle of La Prairie, William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall[101]
The Sack of Deerfield, Thomas Dunn English[102]
Pentucket, John Greenleaf Whittier[105]
Lovewell's Fight, Unknown[106]
Lovewell's Fight, Unknown[108]
The Battle of Lovell's Pond, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[109]
Louisburg, Unknown[110]
A Ballad of the French Fleet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[110]
The British Lyon roused, Stephen Tilden[111]
The Song of Braddock's Men, Unknown[112]
Braddock's Fate, Stephen Tilden[112]
Ned Braddock, John Williamson Palmer[114]
Ode to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Unknown[114]
The Embarkation, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[115]
On the Defeat at Ticonderoga or Carilong, Unknown[117]
On the Late Successful Expedition against Louisbourg, Francis Hopkinson[118]
Fort Duquesne, Florus B. Plimpton[119]
Hot stuff, Edward Botwood[121]
How Stands the Glass around, James Wolfe[121]
Brave Wolfe, Unknown[122]
The Death of Wolfe, Unknown[123]
The Captive's Hymn, Edna Dean Proctor[123]
A Prophecy, Arthur Lee[125]
PART II
THE REVOLUTION
Flawless his Heart, James Russell Lowell[128]
CHAPTER I
The Coming of Discontent
The Virginia Song, Unknown[129]
The World turned Upside Down, Unknown[130]
A Song, Unknown[130]
The Liberty Pole, Unknown[131]
The British Grenadier, Unknown[132]
Crispus Attucks, John Boyle O'Reilly[132]
Unhappy Boston, Paul Revere[134]
Alamance, Seymour W. Whiting[135]
A New Song called the Gaspee, Unknown[135]
A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party, Oliver Wendell Holmes[136]
A New Song, Unknown[137]
How we became a Nation, Harriet Prescott Spofford[138]
A Proclamation, Unknown[138]
The Blasted Herb, Mesech Weare[139]
Epigram, Unknown[140]
The Daughter's Rebellion, Francis Hopkinson[140]
On the Snake depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers, Unknown[140]
Free America, Joseph Warren[140]
Liberty Tree, Thomas Paine[141]
The Mother Country, Benjamin Franklin[142]
Pennsylvania Song, Unknown[142]
Maryland Resolves, Unknown[142]
Massachusetts Song of Liberty, Mercy Warren[143]
Epigram, Unknown[144]
To the Boston Women, Unknown[144]
Prophecy, Gulian Verplanck[144]
CHAPTER II
The Bursting of the Storm
Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[144]
What's in a Name, Helen F. More[146]
Lexington, Sidney Lanier[146]
Lexington, Oliver Wendell Holmes[147]
New England's Chevy Chase, Edward Everett Hale[148]
The King's Own Regulars, Unknown[150]
Morgan Stanwood, Hiram Rich[151]
The Minute-Men of Northboro, Wallace Rice[152]
Lexington, John Greenleaf Whittier[153]
The Rising, Thomas Buchanan Read[154]
The Prize of the Margaretta, Will Carleton[155]
The Mecklenburg Declaration, William C. Elam[156]
A Song, Unknown[157]
CHAPTER III
The Colonists take the Offensive
The Green Mountain Boys, William Cullen Bryant[157]
The Surprise at Ticonderoga, Mary A. P. Stansbury[157]
The Yankee's Return from Camp, Edward Bangs[159]
Tom Gage's Proclamation, Unknown[160]
The Eve of Bunker Hill, Clinton Scollard[161]
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers, John Pierpont[161]
The Ballad of Bunker Hill, Edward Everett Hale[162]
Bunker Hill, George H. Calvert[162]
Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle, Oliver Wendell Holmes[163]
The Death of Warren, Epes Sargent[166]
The Battle of Bunker Hill, Unknown[167]
The New-Come Chief, James Russell Lowell[168]
The Trip to Cambridge, Unknown[169]
War and Washington, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall[170]
The Bombardment of Bristol, Unknown[171]
Montgomery at Quebec, Clinton Scollard[171]
A Song, Unknown[172]
A Poem containing Some Remarks on the Present War, Unknown[173]
Mugford's Victory, John White Chadwick[174]
Off from Boston, Unknown[176]
CHAPTER IV
Independence
Emancipation from British Dependence, Philip Freneau[176]
Rodney's Ride, Unknown[177]
American Independence, Francis Hopkinson[178]
The Fourth of July, John Pierpont[179]
Independence Day, Royall Tyler[179]
On Independence, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall[179]
The American Patriot's Prayer, Unknown[180]
Columbia, Timothy Dwight[180]
CHAPTER V
The First Campaign
The Boasting of Sir Peter Parker, Clinton Scollard[181]
A New War Song by Sir Peter Parker, Unknown[182]
The Maryland Battalion, John Williamson Palmer[183]
Haarlem Heights, Arthur Guiterman[183]
Nathan Hale, Unknown[185]
Nathan Hale, Francis Miles Finch[186]
The Ballad of Sweet P, Virginia Woodward Cloud[186]
Across the Delaware, Will Carleton[188]
The Battle of Trenton, Unknown[188]
Trenton and Princeton, Unknown[188]
Assunpink and Princeton, Thomas Dunn English[189]
Seventy-Six, William Cullen Bryant[191]
Betsy's Battle Flag, Minna Irving[191]
The American Flag, Joseph Rodman Drake[192]
CHAPTER VI
"The Fate of Sir Jack Brag"
The Rifleman's Song at Bennington, Unknown[193]
The Marching Song of Stark's Men, Edward Everett Hale[193]
Parson Allen's Ride, Wallace Bruce[194]
The Battle of Bennington, Thomas P. Rodman[195]
Bennington, W. H. Babcock[196]
The Battle of Oriskany, Charles D. Helmer[198]
Saint Leger, Clinton Scollard[199]
The Progress of Sir Jack Brag, Unknown[200]
Arnold at Stillwater, Thomas Dunn English[200]
The Fate of John Burgoyne, Unknown[202]
Saratoga's Song, Unknown[202]
CHAPTER VII
The Second Stage
Lord North's Recantation, Unknown[204]
A New Ballad, Unknown[205]
General Howe's Letter, Unknown[205]
Carmen Bellicosum, Guy Humphreys McMaster[206]
Valley Forge, Thomas Buchanan Read[207]
British Valor displayed; or, The Battle of the Kegs, Francis Hopkinson[208]
The Little Black-Eyed Rebel, Will Carleton[209]
The Battle of Monmouth, Unknown[210]
The Battle of Monmouth, Thomas Dunn English[211]
Molly Pitcher, Kate Brownlee Sherwood[213]
Molly Pitcher, Laura E. Richards[213]
Yankee Doodle's Expedition to Rhode Island, Unknown[214]
Running the Blockade, Nora Perry[215]
Betty Zane, Thomas Dunn English[216]
The Wyoming Massacre, Uriah Terry[217]
CHAPTER VIII
The War on the Water
The Cruise of the Fair American, Unknown[219]
On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle, Philip Freneau[220]
The Yankee Privateer, Arthur Hale[221]
Paul Jones, Unknown[222]
The Yankee Man-of-War, Unknown[223]
Paul Jones—A New Song, Unknown[224]
Paul Jones, Unknown[224]
The Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, Philip Freneau[225]
Barney's Invitation, Philip Freneau[226]
Song on Captain Barney's Victory, Philip Freneau[227]
The South Carolina, Unknown[228]
CHAPTER IX
New York and the "Neutral Ground"
Sir Henry Clinton's Invitation to the Refugees, Philip Freneau[229]
The Storm of Stony Point, Arthur Guiterman[230]
Wayne at Stony Point, Clinton Scollard[230]
Aaron Burr's Wooing, Edmund Clarence Stedman[231]
The Modern Jonas, Unknown[232]
Caldwell of Springfield, Bret Harte[232]
The Cow-Chace, John André[233]
Brave Paulding and the Spy, Unknown[237]
Arnold the Vile Traitor, Unknown[238]
Epigram, Unknown[238]
André's Request to Washington, Nathaniel Parker Willis[238]
André, Charlotte Fiske Bates[239]
Sergeant Champe, Unknown[239]
A New Song, Joseph Stansbury[240]
The Lords of the Main, Joseph Stansbury[241]
The Royal Adventurer, Philip Freneau[241]
The Descent on Middlesex, Peter St. John[242]
CHAPTER X
The War in the South
Hymns of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[245]
About Savannah, Unknown[245]
A Song about Charleston, Unknown[246]
The Swamp Fox, William Gilmore Simms[247]
Song of Marion's Men, William Cullen Bryant[248]
Macdonald's Raid, Paul Hamilton Hayne[248]
Sumter's Band, J. W. Simmons[250]
The Battle of King's Mountain, Unknown[251]
The Battle of the Cowpens, Thomas Dunn English[252]
The Battle of Eutaw, William Gilmore Simms[254]
Eutaw Springs, Philip Freneau[255]
The Dance, Unknown[256]
Cornwallis's Surrender, Unknown[256]
The Surrender of Cornwallis, Unknown[257]
News From Yorktown, Lewis Worthington Smith[257]
An Ancient Prophecy, Philip Freneau[258]
CHAPTER XI
Peace
On Sir Henry Clinton's Recall, Unknown[259]
On the Departure of the British from Charleston, Philip Freneau[260]
On the British King's Speech, Philip Freneau[261]
England and America in 1782, Alfred Tennyson[262]
On Disbanding the Army, David Humphreys[262]
Evacuation of New York by the British, Unknown[262]
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, on his Way to his Residence in Virginia, Philip Freneau[263]
The American Soldier's Hymn, Unknown[264]
Thanksgiving Hymn, Unknown[264]
Land of the Wilful Gospel, Sidney Lanier[265]
PART III
THE PERIOD OF GROWTH
"Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," William Cullen Bryant[268]
CHAPTER I
The New Nation
A Radical Song of 1786, St. John Honeywood[269]
The Federal Convention, Unknown[269]
To the Federal Convention, Timothy Dwight[270]
The New Roof, Francis Hopkinson[270]
Convention Song, Unknown[271]
The Federal Constitution, William Milns[272]
The First American Congress, Joel Barlow[273]
Washington, James Jeffrey Roche[274]
The Vow of Washington, John Greenleaf Whittier[274]
On the Death of Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau[275]
George Washington, John Hall Ingham[275]
Washington, Lord Byron[276]
Adams and Liberty, Robert Treat Paine[276]
Hail Columbia, Joseph Hopkinson[277]
Ye Sons of Columbia, Thomas Green Fessenden[278]
Truxton's Victory, Unknown[279]
The Constellation and the Insurgente, Unknown[280]
Washington's Monument, Unknown[280]
How we burned the Philadelphia, Barrett Eastman[281]
Reuben James, James Jeffrey Roche[282]
Skipper Ireson's Ride, John Greenleaf Whittier[283]
A Plea for Flood Ireson, Charles Timothy Brooks[284]
CHAPTER II
The Second War with England
The Times, Unknown[285]
Reparation or War, Unknown[286]
Terrapin War, Unknown[286]
Farewell, Peace, Unknown[287]
Come, ye Lads, who wish to shine, Unknown[287]
Hull's Surrender, Unknown[287]
The Constitution and the Guerrière, Unknown[288]
Halifax Station, Unknown[289]
On the Capture of the Guerrière, Philip Freneau[290]
Firstfruits in 1812, Wallace Rice[291]
The Battle of Queenstown, William Banker, Jr.[292]
The Wasp's Frolic, Unknown[293]
The United States and Macedonian, Unknown[293]
The United States and Macedonian, Unknown[294]
Jack Creamer, James Jeffrey Roche[295]
Yankee Thunders, Unknown[296]
The General Armstrong, Unknown[296]
Capture of Little York, Unknown[298]
The Death of General Pike, Laughton Osborn[299]
Old Fort Meigs, Unknown[300]
The Shannon and the Chesapeake, Thomas Tracy Bouvé[300]
Chesapeake and Shannon, Unknown[301]
Defeat and Victory, Wallace Rice[302]
Enterprise and Boxer, Unknown[302]
Perry's Victory, Unknown[303]
The Battle of Erie, Unknown[303]
Perry's Victory—A Song, Unknown[305]
The Fall of Tecumseh, Unknown[305]
The Legend of Walbach Tower, George Houghton[306]
The Battle of Valparaiso, Unknown[307]
The Battle of Bridgewater, Unknown[308]
The Hero of Bridgewater, Charles L. S. Jones[309]
The Battle of Stonington, Philip Freneau[309]
The Ocean-Fight, Unknown[310]
The Lost War-Sloop, Edna Dean Proctor[311]
On the British Invasion, Philip Freneau[312]
The Battle of Lake Champlain, Philip Freneau[312]
The Battle of Plattsburg Bay, Clinton Scollard[313]
The Battle of Plattsburg, Unknown[314]
The Battle of Baltimore, Unknown[315]
Fort McHenry, Unknown[316]
The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key[317]
Ye Parliament of England, Unknown[318]
The Bower of Peace, Robert Southey[318]
Reid at Fayal, John Williamson Palmer[319]
The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer, James Jeffrey Roche[319]
The Armstrong at Fayal, Wallace Rice[321]
Fort Bowyer, Charles L. S. Jones[323]
The Battle of New Orleans, Thomas Dunn English[323]
Jackson at New Orleans, Wallace Rice[325]
To the Defenders of New Orleans, Joseph Rodman Drake[326]
The Hunters of Kentucky, Unknown[326]
The Constitution's Last Fight, James Jeffrey Roche[327]
Sea and Land Victories, Unknown[328]
Ode to Peace, Unknown[329]
CHAPTER III
The West
The Settler, Alfred B. Street[329]
The Mothers of the West, William Davis Gallagher[330]
On the Emigration to America, Philip Freneau[331]
John Filson, William Henry Venable[331]
Sainclaire's Defeat, Unknown[332]
Johnny Appleseed, William Henry Venable[334]
The Founders of Ohio, William Henry Venable[335]
Blennerhassett's Island, Thomas Buchanan Read[335]
The Battle of Muskingum, William Harrison Safford[337]
To Aaron Burr, under Trial for High Treason, Sarah Wentworth Morton[338]
The Battle of Tippecanoe, Unknown[339]
The Tomb of the Brave, Joseph Hutton[339]
Sa-cá-ga-we-a, Edna Dean Proctor[340]
On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, Joel Barlow[341]
Whitman's Ride for Oregon, Hezekiah Butterworth[342]
Discovery of San Francisco Bay, Richard Edward White[343]
John Charles Frémont, Charles F. Lummis[345]
"The Days of 'Forty-Nine," Unknown[345]
The Old Santa Fé Trail, Richard Burton[346]
California, Lydia Huntley Sigourney[346]
CHAPTER IV
Through Five Administrations
Theodosia Burr, John Williamson Palmer[346]
On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, John G. C. Brainard[347]
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck[348]
On Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, John Pierpont[348]
La Fayette, Dolly Madison[349]
The Death of Jefferson, Hezekiah Butterworth[349]
Old Ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes[351]
Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson[351]
The Wreck of the Hesperus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[351]
Old Tippecanoe, Unknown[353]
The Death of Harrison, Nathaniel Parker Willis[353]
CHAPTER V
The War with Mexico
The Valor of Ben Milam, Clinton Scollard[354]
Ben Milam, William H. Wharton[355]
The Men of the Alamo, James Jeffrey Roche[355]
The Defence of the Alamo, Joaquin Miller[357]
The Fight at San Jacinto, John Williamson Palmer[357]
Song of Texas, William Henry Cuyler Hosmer[358]
Texas, John Greenleaf Whittier[358]
Mr. Hosea Biglow speaks, James Russell Lowell[360]
The Guns in the Grass, Thomas Frost[361]
Rio Bravo—A Mexican Lament, Charles Fenno Hoffman[362]
To Arms, Park Benjamin[363]
Monterey, Charles Fenno Hoffman[363]
Victor Galbraith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[364]
Buena Vista, Albert Pike[364]
The Angels of Buena Vista, John Greenleaf Whittier[366]
The Bivouac of the Dead, Theodore O'Hara[368]
What Mr. Robinson thinks, James Russell Lowell[369]
Battle of the King's Mill, Thomas Dunn English[370]
The Siege of Chapultepec, William Haines Lytle[371]
Illumination for Victories in Mexico, Grace Greenwood[371]
The Crisis, John Greenleaf Whittier[372]
The Volunteers, William Haines Lytle[374]
CHAPTER VI
Fourteen Years of Peace
The Ship Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Francis Lieber[374]
The War Ship of Peace, Samuel Lover[375]
On the Defeat of Henry Clay, William Wilberforce Lord[376]
On the Death of M. D'Ossoli and his Wife, Margaret Fuller, Walter Savage Landor[376]
The Last Appendix to "Yankee Doodle," Unknown[376]
Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes[377]
The Flag, James Jeffrey Roche[378]
Kane, Fitz-James O'Brien[379]
Herndon, S. Weir Mitchell[380]
Blood is Thicker than Water, Wallace Rice[380]
Baron Renfrew's Ball, Charles Graham Halpine[382]
PART IV
THE CIVIL WAR
Battle-Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe[384]
CHAPTER I
The Slavery Question
To William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier[385]
Clerical Oppressors, John Greenleaf Whittier[385]
The Debate in the Sennit, James Russell Lowell[386]
Ichabod, John Greenleaf Whittier[388]
The Kidnapping of Sims, John Pierpont[388]
The Kansas Emigrants, John Greenleaf Whittier[389]
Burial of Barber, John Greenleaf Whittier[389]
The Defence of Lawrence, Richard Realf[390]
The Fight over the Body of Keitt, Unknown[391]
Le Marais du Cygne, John Greenleaf Whittier[392]
How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry, Edmund Clarence Stedman[393]
The Battle of Charlestown, Henry Howard Brownell[395]
Brown of Ossawatomie, John Greenleaf Whittier[396]
Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown's Body, Charles Sprague Hall[397]
John Brown, Edna Dean Proctor[397]
John Brown: a Paradox, Louise Imogen Guiney[397]
Lecompton's Black Brigade, Charles Graham Halpine[398]
Lincoln, the Man of the People, Edwin Markham[399]
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, Oliver Wendell Holmes[400]
Jefferson D., H. S. Cornwell[401]
The Old Cove, Henry Howard Brownell[401]
A Spool of Thread, Sophie E. Eastman[402]
God save Our President, Francis DeHaes Janvier[403]
CHAPTER II
The Gauntlet
Bob Anderson, my Beau, Unknown[403]
On Fort Sumter, Unknown[403]
Sumter, Edmund Clarence Stedman[404]
The Battle of Morris' Island, Unknown[404]
Sumter—A Ballad of 1861, Unknown[405]
The Fight at Sumter, Unknown[407]
Sumter, Henry Howard Brownell[408]
The Great Bell Roland, Theodore Tilton[408]
Men of the North and West, Richard Henry Stoddard[409]
Out and Fight, Charles Godfrey Leland[409]
No More Words, Franklin Lushington[410]
Our Country's Call, William Cullen Bryant[410]
Dixie, Albert Pike[411]
A Cry to Arms, Henry Timrod[411]
"We Conquer or Die," James Pierpont[412]
"Call All," Unknown[412]
The Bonnie Blue Flag, Annie Chambers Ketchum[413]
I give my Soldier Boy a Blade, Unknown[413]
CHAPTER III
The North gets its Lesson
The Nineteenth of April, Lucy Larcom[414]
Through Baltimore, Bayard Taylor[414]
My Maryland, James Ryder Randall[415]
Ellsworth, Unknown[416]
Colonel Ellsworth, Richard Henry Stoddard[416]
On the Death of "Jackson," Unknown[417]
The Virginians of the Valley, Francis Orrery Ticknor[417]
Bethel, A. J. H. Duganne[417]
Dirge, Thomas William Parsons[419]
Wait for the Wagon, Unknown[419]
Upon the Hill before Centreville, George Henry Boker[420]
Manassas, Catherine M. Warfield[423]
A Battle Ballad, Francis Orrery Ticknor[424]
The Run from Manassas Junction, Unknown[425]
On to Richmond, John R. Thompson[426]
Cast Down, but not Destroyed, Unknown[427]
Shop and Freedom, Unknown[428]
The C. S. A. Commissioners, Unknown[428]
Death of the Lincoln Despotism, Unknown[429]
Jonathan to John, James Russell Lowell[430]
A New Song to an Old Tune, Unknown[432]
CHAPTER IV
The Grand Army of the Potomac
Civil War, Charles Dawson Shanly[432]
The Picket-Guard, Ethel Lynn Beers[433]
Tardy George, Unknown[433]
How McClellan took Manassas, Unknown[434]
Wanted—A Man, Edmund Clarence Stedman[435]
The Gallant Fighting "Joe," James Stevenson[436]
Kearny at Seven Pines, Edmund Clarence Stedman[437]
The Burial of Latané, John R. Thompson[437]
The Charge by the Ford, Thomas Dunn English[438]
Dirge for Ashby, Margaret Junkin Preston[439]
Malvern Hill, Herman Melville[439]
A Message, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps[440]
Three Hundred Thousand More, James Sloan Gibbons[440]
Cedar Mountain, Annie Fields[441]
"Our Left," Francis Orrery Ticknor[441]
Dirge for a Soldier, George Henry Boker[442]
The Reveille, Bret Harte[442]
Beyond the Potomac, Paul Hamilton Hayne[443]
Barbara Frietchie, John Greenleaf Whittier[444]
Marthy Virginia's Hand, George Parsons Lathrop[445]
The Victor of Antietam, Herman Melville[445]
The Crossing at Fredericksburg, George Henry Boker[446]
At Fredericksburg, John Boyle O'Reilly[447]
Fredericksburg, Thomas Bailey Aldrich[449]
By the Potomac, Thomas Bailey Aldrich[449]
The Washers of the Shroud, James Russell Lowell[450]
CHAPTER V
The War in the West
The Little Drummer, Richard Henry Stoddard[451]
The Death of Lyon, Henry Peterson[453]
Zagonyi, George Henry Boker[453]
Battle of Somerset, Cornelius C. Cullen[454]
Zollicoffer, Henry Lynden Flash[454]
Boy Brittan, Forceythe Willson[455]
Albert Sidney Johnston, Kate Brownlee Sherwood[456]
Albert Sidney Johnston, Francis Orrery Ticknor[457]
Beauregard, Mrs. C. A. Warfield[457]
The Eagle of Corinth, Henry Howard Brownell[458]
The Battle of Murfreesboro, Kinahan Cornwallis[459]
Little Giffen, Francis Orrery Ticknor[460]
The Battle Autumn of 1862, John Greenleaf Whittier[460]
CHAPTER VI
The Coast and the River
At Port Royal, John Greenleaf Whittier[461]
Ready, Phœbe Cary[461]
The Daughter of the Regiment, Clinton Scollard[462]
The Turtle, Unknown[462]
The Attack, Thomas Buchanan Read[463]
The Cumberland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[464]
On Board the Cumberland, George Henry Boker[464]
The Cumberland, Herman Melville[466]
How the Cumberland went down, S. Weir Mitchell[466]
The Cruise of the Monitor, George Henry Boker[467]
The Sinking of the Merrimack, Lucy Larcom[468]
The River Fight, Henry Howard Brownell[468]
The Ballad of New Orleans, George Henry Boker[472]
The Varuna, George Henry Boker[474]
The Surrender of New Orleans, Marion Manville[475]
Mumford, Ina M. Porter[476]
Butler's Proclamation, Paul Hamilton Hayne[476]
CHAPTER VII
Emancipation
To John C. Frémont, John Greenleaf Whittier[477]
Astræa at the Capitol, John Greenleaf Whittier[478]
Boston Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson[478]
The Proclamation, John Greenleaf Whittier[480]
Treason's Last Device, Edmund Clarence Stedman[480]
Laus Deo, John Greenleaf Whittier[481]
CHAPTER VIII
The "Grand Army's" Second Campaign
Mosby at Hamilton, Madison Cawein[482]
John Pelham, James Ryder Randall[482]
Hooker's Across, George Henry Boker[483]
Stonewall Jackson's Way, John Williamson Palmer[483]
Keenan's Charge, George Parsons Lathrop[484]
"The Brigade must not know, Sir," Unknown[485]
Stonewall Jackson, Henry Lynden Flash[486]
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson, Sidney Lanier[486]
Under the Shade of the Trees, Margaret Junkin Preston[486]
The Ballad of Ishmael Day, Unknown[487]
Riding with Kilpatrick, Clinton Scollard[488]
Gettysburg, Edmund Clarence Stedman[489]
The High Tide at Gettysburg, Will Henry Thompson[491]
Gettysburg, James Jeffrey Roche[492]
The Battle-Field, Lloyd Mifflin[492]
John Burns of Gettysburg, Bret Harte[493]
Kentucky Belle, Constance Fenimore Woolson[494]
The Draft Riot, Charles de Kay[496]
Lincoln at Gettysburg, Bayard Taylor[497]
CHAPTER IX
With Grant on the Mississippi
Running the Batteries, Herman Melville[498]
Before Vicksburg, George Henry Boker[499]
Vicksburg, Paul Hamilton Hayne[499]
The Battle-Cry of Freedom, George Frederick Root[500]
The Black Regiment, George Henry Boker[500]
The Ballad of Chickamauga, Maurice Thompson[501]
Thomas at Chickamauga, Kate Brownlee Sherwood[502]
Garfield's Ride at Chickamauga, Hezekiah Butterworth[503]
The Battle of Lookout Mountain, George Henry Boker[505]
The Battle in the Clouds, William Dean Howells[506]
Charleston, Henry Timrod[507]
The Battle of Charleston Harbor, Paul Hamilton Hayne[507]
Bury Them, Henry Howard Brownell[508]
Twilight on Sumter, Richard Henry Stoddard[509]
CHAPTER X
The Final Struggle
Put it Through, Edward Everett Hale[509]
Logan at Peach Tree Creek, Hamlin Garland[510]
A Dirge for McPherson, Herman Melville[511]
With Corse at Allatoona, Samuel H. M. Byers[511]
Allatoona, Unknown[512]
Sherman's March to the Sea, Samuel H. M. Byers[512]
The Song of Sherman's Army, Charles Graham Halpine[513]
Marching through Georgia, Henry Clay Work[513]
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, Walt Whitman[514]
Sherman's in Savannah, Oliver Wendell Holmes[514]
Savannah, Alethea S. Burroughs[514]
Carolina, Henry Timrod[515]
Charleston, Paul Hamilton Hayne[515]
Romance, William Ernest Henley[516]
The Foe at the Gates, John Dickson Bruns[516]
Ulric Dahlgren, Kate Brownlee Sherwood[517]
Lee to the Rear, John Randolph Thompson[518]
Can't, Harriet Prescott Spofford[519]
Obsequies of Stuart, John Randolph Thompson[519]
A Christopher of the Shenandoah, Edith M. Thomas[520]
Sheridan at Cedar Creek, Herman Melville[521]
Sheridan's Ride, Thomas Buchanan Read[521]
The Year of Jubilee, Henry Clay Work[522]
Virginia Capta, Margaret Junkin Preston[523]
The Fall of Richmond, Herman Melville[523]
The Surrender at Appomattox, Herman Melville[524]
Lee's Parole, Marion Manville[524]
Robert E. Lee, Julia Ward Howe[524]
CHAPTER XI
Winslow and Farragut
The Eagle and Vulture, Thomas Buchanan Read[525]
Kearsarge and Alabama, Unknown[526]
Kearsarge, S. Weir Mitchell[526]
The Alabama, Maurice Bell[527]
Craven, Henry Newbolt[527]
Farragut, William Tuckey Meredith[528]
Through Fire in Mobile Bay, Unknown[529]
The Bay Fight, Henry Howard Brownell[530]
"Albemarle" Cushing, James Jeffrey Roche[535]
At the Cannon's Mouth, Herman Melville[537]
CHAPTER XII
The Martyr President
Lincoln, S. Weir Mitchell[537]
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman[537]
The Dead President, Edward Rowland Sill[538]
Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Clarence Stedman[538]
Pardon, Julia Ward Howe[539]
The Dear President, John James Piatt[539]
Abraham Lincoln, William Cullen Bryant[540]
Abraham Lincoln, Richard Henry Stoddard[540]
Parricide, Julia Ward Howe[542]
Abraham Lincoln, Tom Taylor[543]
CHAPTER XIII
Peace
"Stack Arms," Joseph Blynth Alston[545]
Jefferson Davis, Walker Meriwether Bell[545]
In the Land where we were Dreaming, Daniel B. Lucas[546]
Acceptation, Margaret Junkin Preston[547]
The Conquered Banner, Abram J. Ryan[547]
Peace, Adeline D. T. Whitney[547]
Peace, Phœbe Cary[548]
A Second Review of the Grand Army, Bret Harte[548]
When Johnny comes marching Home, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore[549]
Driving Home the Cows, Kate Putnam Osgood[550]
Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration, James Russell Lowell[550]
PART V
THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION
The Eagle's Song, Richard Mansfield[558]
CHAPTER I
Reconstruction and After
To the Thirty-Ninth Congress, John Greenleaf Whittier[559]
"Mr. Johnson's Policy of Reconstruction," Charles Graham Halpine[559]
Thaddeus Stevens, Phœbe Cary[560]
South Carolina to the States of the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne[561]
Ku-Klux, Madison Cawein[562]
The Rear Guard, Irene Fowler Brown[562]
The Blue and the Gray, Francis Miles Finch[563]
The Stricken South to the North, Paul Hamilton Hayne[564]
How Cyrus laid the Cable, John Godfrey Saxe[565]
The Cable Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier[565]
An Arctic Vision, Bret Harte[566]
Alaska, Joaquin Miller[567]
Israel Freyer's Bid for Gold, Edmund Clarence Stedman[567]
Chicago, John Greenleaf Whittier[568]
Chicago, Bret Harte[569]
Chicago, John Boyle O'Reilly[569]
Boston, John Boyle O'Reilly[570]
The Church of the Revolution, Hezekiah Butterworth[570]
After the Fire, Oliver Wendell Holmes[571]
The Ride of Collins Graves, John Boyle O'Reilly[571]
CHAPTER II
The Year of a Hundred Years
Our First Century, George Edward Woodberry[572]
Centennial Hymn, John Greenleaf Whittier[573]
The Centennial Meditation of Columbia, Sidney Lanier[573]
Centennial Hymn, William Cullen Bryant[574]
Welcome to the Nations, Oliver Wendell Holmes[574]
The National Ode, Bayard Taylor[575]
Our National Banner, Dexter Smith[578]
After the Centennial, Christopher Pearse Cranch[578]
CHAPTER III
The Conquest of the Plains
The Pacific Railway, C. R. Ballard[579]
After the Comanches, Unknown[579]
Down the Little Big Horn, Francis Brooks[580]
Little Big Horn, Ernest McGaffey[581]
Custer's Last Charge, Frederick Whittaker[582]
Custer, Edmund Clarence Stedman[583]
The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[583]
Miles Keogh's Horse, John Hay[584]
On the Big Horn, John Greenleaf Whittier[585]
The "Grey Horse Troop," Robert W. Chambers[585]
Geronimo, Ernest McGaffey[586]
The Last Reservation, Walter Learned[586]
Indian Names, Lydia Huntley Sigourney[587]
CHAPTER IV
The Second Assassination
Rejoice, Joaquin Miller[587]
The Bells at Midnight, Thomas Bailey Aldrich[588]
J. A. G., Julia Ward Howe[589]
Midnight—September 19, 1881, John Boyle O'Reilly[589]
At the President's Grave, Richard Watson Gilder[590]
On the Death of President Garfield, Oliver Wendell Holmes[590]
President Garfield, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[591]
Yorktown Centennial Lyric, Paul Hamilton Hayne[592]
The Brooklyn Bridge, Edna Dean Proctor[593]
Brooklyn Bridge, Charles George Douglas Roberts[593]
Charleston, Richard Watson Gilder[594]
Mayflower, John Boyle O'Reilly[594]
Fairest of Freedom's Daughters, Jeremiah Eames Rankin[594]
Liberty Enlightening the World, Edmund Clarence Stedman[595]
The Bartholdi Statue, John Greenleaf Whittier[595]
Additional Verses to Hail Columbia, Oliver Wendell Holmes[596]
New National Hymn, Francis Marion Crawford[596]
In Apia Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts[597]
An International Episode, Caroline T. Duer[598]
By the Conemaugh, Florence Earle Coates[599]
The Man who rode to Conemaugh, John Eliot Bowen[599]
A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood, Hardwick Drummond Rawnsley[600]
Conemaugh, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward[601]
"The White City," Richard Watson Gilder[602]
The Kearsarge, James Jeffrey Roche[602]
Tennessee, Virginia Fraser Boyle[603]
An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial, Thomas Bailey Aldrich[603]
The Klondike, Edwin Arlington Robinson[604]
CHAPTER V
The War with Spain
Apostrophe to the Island of Cuba, James Gates Percival[606]
The Gallant Fifty-One, Henry Lynden Flash[606]
Cuba, Edmund Clarence Stedman[607]
The Gospel of Peace, James Jeffrey Roche[607]
Cuba, Harvey Rice[608]
Cuba to Columbia, Will Carleton[608]
Cuba Libre, Joaquin Miller[609]
The Parting of the Ways, Joseph B. Gilder[609]
The Men of the Maine, Clinton Scollard[609]
The Word of the Lord from Havana, Richard Hovey[610]
Half-Mast, Lloyd Mifflin[611]
The Fighting Race, Joseph I. C. Clarke[611]
On the Eve of War, Danske Dandridge[612]
To Spain—A Last Word, Edith M. Thomas[612]
The Martyrs of the Maine, Rupert Hughes[612]
El Emplazado, William Henry Venable[613]
Battle Song, Robert Burns Wilson[613]
Greeting from England, Unknown[614]
Battle Cry, William Henry Venable[614]
Just One Signal, Unknown[614]
Dewey at Manila, Robert Underwood Johnson[615]
Dewey and his Men, Wallace Rice[617]
"Off Manilly," Edmund Vance Cooke[618]
Manila Bay, Arthur Hale[618]
A Ballad of Manila Bay, Charles George Douglas Roberts[618]
The Battle of Manila, Richard Hovey[619]
Dewey in Manila Bay, R. V. Risley[620]
"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," Madison Cawein[620]
The Spirit of the Maine, Tudor Jenks[621]
The Dragon of the Seas, Thomas Nelson Page[621]
The Sailing of the Fleet, Unknown[622]
"Cut the Cables," Robert Burns Wilson[622]
The Race of the Oregon, John James Meehan[624]
Battle-Song of the Oregon, Wallace Rice[624]
Strike the Blow, Unknown[625]
Eight Volunteers, Lansing C. Bailey[626]
The Men of the Merrimac, Clinton Scollard[626]
The Victory-Wreck, Will Carleton[627]
Hobson and his Men, Robert Loveman[627]
The Call to the Colors, Arthur Guiterman[627]
Essex Regiment March, George Edward Woodberry[628]
The Gathering, Herbert B. Swett[629]
Comrades, Henry R. Dorr[629]
Wheeler's Brigade at Santiago, Wallace Rice[629]
Deeds of Valor at Santiago, Clinton Scollard[630]
The Charge at Santiago, William Hamilton Hayne[630]
Private Blair of the Regulars, Clinton Scollard[631]
Wheeler at Santiago, James Lindsay Gordon[631]
Spain's Last Armada, Wallace Rice[632]
Santiago, Thomas A. Janvier[633]
The Fleet at Santiago, Charles E. Russell[634]
The Destroyer of Destroyers, Wallace Rice[635]
The Brooklyn at Santiago, Wallace Rice[636]
The Rush of the Oregon, Arthur Guiterman[637]
The Men behind the Guns, John Jerome Rooney[637]
Cervera, Bertrand Shadwell[638]
McIlrath of Malate, John Jerome Rooney[639]
When the Great Gray Ships come in, Guy Wetmore Carryl[640]
Full Cycle, John White Chadwick[640]
Breath on the Oat, Joseph Russell Taylor[641]
The Islands of the Sea, George Edward Woodberry[641]
Ballade of Expansion, Hilda Johnson[642]
"Rebels," Ernest Crosby[643]
On a Soldier fallen in the Philippines, William Vaughn Moody[643]
The Ballad of Paco Town, Clinton Scollard[644]
The Deed of Lieutenant Miles, Clinton Scollard[644]
Aguinaldo, Bertrand Shadwell[645]
The Fight at Dajo, Alfred E. Wood[645]
An Ode in Time of Hesitation, William Vaughn Moody[646]
CHAPTER VI
The New Century
A Toast to Our Native Land, Robert Bridges[649]
Buffalo, Florence Earle Coates[649]
McKinley, Unknown[649]
Faithful unto Death, Richard Handfield Titherington[650]
The Comfort of the Trees, Richard Watson Gilder[650]
Outward Bound, Edward Sydney Tylee[650]
Panama, James Jeffrey Roche[651]
Darien, Edwin Arnold[651]
Panama, Amanda T. Jones[652]
A Song of Panama, Alfred Damon Runyon[652]
Hymn of the West, Edmund Clarence Stedman[653]
Britannia to Columbia, Alfred Austin[654]
Those Rebel Flags, John H. Jewett[654]
The Song of the Flags, S. Weir Mitchell[655]
Arizona, Sharlot M. Hall[655]
San Francisco, Joaquin Miller[657]
San Francisco, John Vance Cheney[657]
To San Francisco, S. J. Alexander[657]
Resurge San Francisco, Joaquin Miller[658]
Grover Cleveland, Joel Benton[658]
Unguarded Gates, Thomas Bailey Aldrich[659]
National Song, William Henry Venable[659]
Ad Patriam, Clinton Scollard[660]
O Land Beloved, George Edward Woodberry[660]
The Republic, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[660]
CHAPTER VII
The World War
Sonnets written in the Fall of 1914, George Edward Woodberry[661]
Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight, Vachel Lindsay[661]
The "William P. Frye," Jeanne Robert Foster[662]
The White Ships and the Red, Joyce Kilmer[663]
Mare Liberum, Henry van Dyke[664]
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers fallen for France, Alan Seeger[664]
Republic to Republic, Witter Bynner[666]
To the United States of America, Robert Bridges[666]
The Captive Ships at Manila, Dorothy Paul[666]
The Road to France, Daniel Henderson[667]
Pershing at the Tomb of Lafayette, Amelia Josephine Burr[667]
Your Lad, and my Lad, Randall Parrish[668]
A Call to Arms, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews[668]
The First Three, Clinton Scollard[669]
To America, on her First Sons fallen in the Great War, E. M. Walker[670]
Rouge Bouquet, Joyce Kilmer[670]
Marching Song, Dana Burnet[671]
Our Modest Doughboys, Charlton Andrews[671]
Seicheprey[672]
A Ballad of Redhead's Day, Richard Butler Glaenzer[672]
Victory Bells, Grace Hazard Conkling[673]
Epicedium, J. Corson Miller[673]
The Dead, David Morton[674]
The Unreturning, Clinton Scollard[674]
The Star, Marion Couthouy Smith[674]
Brest left behind, John Chipman Farrar[674]
To the Returning Brave, Robert Underwood Johnson[675]
The Return, Eleanor Rogers Cox[676]
King of the Belgians, Marion Couthouy Smith[676]
The Family of Nations, Willard Wattles[677]
The League of Nations, Mary Siegrist[677]
Beyond Wars, David Morton[678]
"When there is Peace," Austin Dobson[678]
After the War, Richard Le Gallienne[678]
NOTES[681]
INDEX OF AUTHORS[699]
INDEX OF FIRST LINES[705]
INDEX OF TITLES[713]

PART I
THE COLONIAL PERIOD

AMERICA

Oh, who has not heard of the Northmen of yore,
How flew, like the sea-bird, their sails from the shore;
How westward they stayed not till, breasting the brine,
They hailed Narragansett, the land of the vine?