Stories of Later American History | Page 2

Wilbur F. Gordy
REPUBLIC XII. INCREASING
THE SIZE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC XIII. INTERNAL
IMPROVEMENTS XIV. THE REPUBLIC GROWS LARGER XV.
THREE GREAT STATESMEN XVI. THE CIVIL WAR XVII. FOUR
GREAT INDUSTRIES INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS
Pioneers on the Overland Route, Westward George III Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry Delivering His Speech in the Virginia House of
Burgesses William Pitt St. John's Church, Richmond Samuel Adams
Patriots in New York Destroying Stamps Intended for Use in
Connecticut Faneuil Hall, Boston Old South Church, Boston The
"Boston Tea Party" Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia John Hancock John
Hancock's Home, Boston A Minuteman Old North Church Paul
Revere's Ride Monument on Lexington Common Marking the Line of
the Minutemen Concord Bridge President Langdon, the President of
Harvard College, Praying for the Bunker Hill Entrenching Party on
Cambridge Common Just Before Their Departure Prescott at Bunker
Hill Bunker Hill Monument George Washington Washington, Henry,
and Pendleton on the Way to Congress at Philadelphia The Washington
Elm at Cambridge, under which Washington took Command of the
Army Sir William Howe Thomas Jefferson Looking Over the Rough
Draught of the Declaration of Independence The Retreat from Long
Island Nathan Hale British and Hessian Soldiers Powder-Horn,
Bullet-Flask, and Buckshot-Pouch Used in the Revolution General
Burgoyne Surrendering to General Gates Marquis de Lafayette
Lafayette Offering His Services to Franklin Winter at Valley Forge
Nathanael Greene The Meeting of Greene and Gates upon Greene's
Assuming Command Daniel Morgan Francis Marion Marion
Surprising a British Wagon-Train John Paul Jones Battle Between the
Ranger and the Drake The Fight Between the Bon Homme Richard and
the Serapis Daniel Boone Boone's Escape from the Indians
Boonesborough Boone Throwing Tobacco into the Eyes of the Indians
Who Had Come to Capture Him James Robertson Living-Room of the
Early Settler Grinding Indian Corn A Kentucky Pioneer's Cabin John
Sevier A Barbecue of 1780 Battle of King's Mountain George Rogers
Clark Clark on the Way to Kaskaskia Clark's Surprise at Kaskaskia
Wampum Peace Belt Clark's Advance on Vincennes George
Washington Washington's Home, Mount Vernon Tribute Rendered to
Washington at Trenton Washington Taking the Oath of Office as First
President, at Federal Hall, New York City Washington's Inaugural
Chair Eli Whitney Whitney's Cotton-Gin A Colonial Planter A Slave
Settlement Thomas Jefferson "Monticello," the Home of Jefferson A
Rice-Field in Louisiana A Flatboat on the Ohio River House in New
Orleans Where Louis Philippe Stopped in 1798 A Public Building in

New Orleans Built in 1794 Meriwether Lewis William Clark Buffalo
Hunted by Indians The Lewis and Clark Expedition Working Its Way
Westward Andrew Jackson "The Hermitage," the Home of Andrew
Jackson Fighting the Seminole Indians, under Jackson Robert Fulton
Fulton's First Experiment with Paddle-Wheels The "Clermont" in
Duplicate at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909 The Opening of the
Erie Canal in 1825 The Ceremony Called "The Marriage of the Waters"
Erie Canal on the Right and Aqueduct over the Mohawk River, New
York "Tom Thumb," Peter Cooper's Locomotive Working Model, First
Used near Baltimore in 1830 Railroad Poster of 1843 Comparison of
"DeWitt Clinton" Locomotive and Train, the First Train Operated in
New York, with a Modern Locomotive of the New York Central R.R.
S.F.B. Morse The First Telegraph Instrument Modern Telegraph Office
The Operation of the Modern Railroad is Dependent upon the
Telegraph Sam Houston Flag of the Republic of Texas David Crockett
The Fight at the Alamo John C. Frémont Frémont's Expedition
Crossing the Rocky Mountains Kit Carson Sutter's Mill Placer-Mining
in the Days of the California Gold Rush John C. Calhoun Calhoun's
Office and Library Henry Clay The Birthplace of Henry Clay, near
Richmond The Schoolhouse in "the Slashes" Daniel Webster The
Home of Daniel Webster, Marshfield, Mass. Henry Clay Addressing
the United States Senate in 1850 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's Birthplace
Lincoln Studying by Firelight Lincoln Splitting Rails Lincoln as a
Boatman Lincoln Visiting Wounded Soldiers Robert E. Lee Lee's
Home at Arlington, Virginia Jefferson Davis Thomas J. Jackson A
Confederate Flag J.E.B. Stuart Confederate Soldiers Union Soldiers
Ulysses S. Grant Grant's Birthplace, Point Pleasant, Ohio General and
Mrs. Grant with Their Son at City Point, Virginia William Tecumseh
Sherman Sherman's March to the Sea Philip H. Sheridan Sheridan
Rallying His Troops The McLean House Where Lee Surrendered
General Lee on His Horse, Traveller Cotton-Field in Blossom A
Wheat-Field Grain-Elevators at Buffalo Cattle on the Western Plains
Iron Smelters Iron Ore Ready for Shipment

MAPS

Boston and Vicinity The War in the Middle States The War in the
South Early Settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee George Rogers
Clark in the Northwest The United States in 1803, after the Louisiana
Purchase (Colored) Jackson's Campaign Scene of Houston's Campaign
Frémont's Western Explorations Map of the United States Showing
First and Second Secession Areas (Colored) Route of Sherman's March
to the Sea The Country Around Washington and Richmond

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