The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Volume 9 U.S. History – Civil War, Mexico Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS THE UNITED STATES I. THE MEXICAN \VAR "REMEMBER THE ALA:uo"
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From"Border Fights and Fighters."
• Cyrus Tuw11se11d Brady
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE VOTE.
• W. H. Vail
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TuE STORMING OF CHAPULTEPEC •
James Barnes
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From "The Outlook."
From "The Giant of Three Wars." II. CALIFORNIA
WHEN THE ENGUSH DISCOVERED CAUFORNIA
Edward Everett HalP. 23 From"Narrative and Critical History of America."
ON THE CA UFORNIA COAST IN THE TulRTIES
From"Two Years Before the Mast."
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
How THE "FORTY-N INERS" REACHED CAUFORNIA
Henry Childs Merwin
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Henry Childs Merwi11
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EA RLY BUSINESS DA YS IN SAN FRANCISCO
From"The Life of Bret Harte."
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111. THE SHADOW OF THE CIVIL WAR
THE "BROADCLOTH MOB" OF BOSTON
From"Society in America."
Harriet Martineaze
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ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THE GREAT LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
Fra11cis Gricrso11 Fra11cis Grierson
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}UST BEFORE THE \VAR
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Morris Sc haff
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From"The Valley of Shadows."
From"The Spirit of Old West Point."
IV. FRO.l\I FORT SUMTER TO CHANCELLORSVILLE
THE Bo:uBARDilENT OF FoRT Su:UTER
From"History of the Southern Rebellion."
. Orville J. Victor
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J11lia Ward Howe 95 Charles Carleton Coffin 97 From"l\Iy Days and Kights on the Battlefield." JoXATHAX TO JOHN James Rressell Lowell 104 From "The Biglow Papers."
BATTLE-HY:UN OF THE REPUBLIC THE GATHERING OF THE GREAT ARMY
CONTENTS TnE MERRDJ'.AC AND THE iioNITOR Jolin S. Wise 109 From "The End of an Era." TAKEN PRISONER AT SHILOH . . . Henry M. Stanley 126 From "The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley." BOSTON HYMN . . . . . . Ralplz Waldo Emerson 143 V. THE TURNING-POINT
Mary Johnston "STOXEWALL" JACKSO� BY THE RIVER From "The Long Roll." A TBll.EE-HOURS TRUCE AT VICKSBURG JV. H. Tmward From "A Soldier's Story of the Siege of Vicksburg." A DRUillIER-BoY AT GETTYSBURG . . . . Harry U. Kieffer From "Recollections of a Drummer Boy." JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG . . . . . Bret Harte Abraham Lincoln THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ALABAMA DRESSMAKIXG IN THE DAYS OF THE BLOCKADE Parthenia Antoinette Hague From "A Blockaded Family."
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VI. THE END OF THE STRUGGLE THE DAY OF THE EVACUATION OF RICHMOND Uorris Sclzajf From "The Sunset of the Confederacy." CARRYING A i1ESSAGE TO GEXERAL LEE John S. Wise From "The End of an Era." LEE'S SURRENDER . . . . . Morris Schaff From "The Sunset of the Confederacy." A:ill:RICA AITER THE CIVIL WAR . William Ewart Gladstone From "The 1Iight of Right."
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MEXICO I.
STORIES OF THE AZTECS
A HYMN OF TIIE ANCIENT MEXICANS . U11k11own From "The Rig Veda Americanus," edited by D. G. Brinton. NEZAHUALCOYOTL, KING OF THE TuscucANS
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William Hickling Prescott 240 From "History of the Conquest of Mexico." How AN AZTEC BoY BECAME A KNIGHT H11bert Howe Bancroft 245 How THE AZTEC KING PASSED HIS, TIME Httbcrl Howe Ba11croft 250 From "A Popular History of the Mexican People." 11
CONTENTS II.
THE COMING OF THE SPANIARDS
HAS THE Gon QUETZALCOATL CO'llE TO MEXICO?
lV illiam Hickling Prescott 257 From "History of the Conquest of Mexico." Iluberl I/owe Bancroft 266 THE KING WITHOUT A THRO NE From "A Popular History of the Mexican People." Jacob Abbott 274 THE FALL OF TllE CITY OF MExrco From "History of Hernando Cortez and his Conquest of Mexico."
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MODERN MEXICO
THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA MAXIMILIA� AT QUERETARO • THE RULE OF PORFIRIO DIAZ
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Jo/z11 G. Whittier 283 Jfargarel Junkin Preston 288
C/za1ming Amold a11d Frederick J. Tabor Frost From "The American Egypt."
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