CONTENTS

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THE LEXINGTON MINUTEMAN [Frontispiece]
PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (First Paper) WARREN UPHAM [195]
(Sec’y Minn. Historical Society)
BETWEEN TWO FLAGS KATHERINE PRENCE [203]
CIVIL WAR SKETCHES (First Paper) Confederate Finance in Alabama WALTER L. FLEMING [214]
(Prof. of History, West Va. University)
THE PATROL AT BARNEGAT (Poem MS.) WALT WHITMAN [220]
EARLY LEGISLATIVE TURMOILS IN NEW JERSEY WILLIAM NELSON [221]
(Sec’y N. J. Historical Society)
HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEM OF EDGAR ALLAN POE [231]
WHEN WASHINGTON CAME TO SPRINGFIELD REV. NEWTON M. HALL [232]
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
(Dr. Fisk’s Bill.)
HERBERT W. KIMBALL
(Registrar, Mass. S. A. R.)
[239]
THE DEAD OF PATRIOTS’ DAY [244]
THE MEMORIAL TREES AT WASHINGTON [245]
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
  Letter from Benjamin Hawkins to Governor Caswell [248]
  Letter from Silas Deane to Capt. Joseph Hynson [251]
MINOR TOPICS [252]
GENEALOGY [253]

Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt

THE FOUNTAIN AT LEXINGTON WITH STATUE OF THE MINUTE MAN.

THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

VOL. IAPRIL, 1905NO. 4

THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER

I
THE VOYAGE OF VESPUCCI PAST THE MOUTHS OF THE MISSISSIPPI