E. To you we owe the Its purpose, as you know better than any one else, is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they Suggestion of writing this book. knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by ities which are essential to the well-being of a masterful race the virtues of gentleness, of patriotism, and of lofty adherence their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qual to an ideal. It is a go cially good ting for young Americans, to remember the men od thing for all Americans, and it is an espe who have their fellow ing and many ven their lives in war and peace to the service of -countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of dar Personal prowess done in time past by some of the ampions of the nation in the various crises of her hisThrift, industry, obedience to law, and intellectual cultivat are essential qualities in the make-up of any successful pe tory. but So the people can be really great unless they possess virtues which are as needful in time of peace as and as important in civil as in military life. As a cue people we desire peace, but the only peace worth nime roic OF having -not war, obtained by instant readiness to fight when wronged by foresight battle unwillingness or inability to fight at all. Intelligent in preparation and known capacity to stand well in the surest safeguards against war. America will are cease to be a great nation whenever her young me possess energy, daring, and endurance, as well as and the power to fight the nation's foes. No citizen state should wrong any man; but it is not enough n refrain from infringing on the rights of others; he mus able and willing to stand up for his own rights and tho country against all comers, and he must be ready at a to do his full share in resisting either malice domestic eign levy. HENRY CABOT LODG WASHINGTON, April 19, 1 895. PAGE THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACK- Theodore Roosevelt. 211 SON THE CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG GENERAL GRANT AND THE VICKS BURG CAMPAIGN H. C. Lodge Theodore Roosevelt. 225 237 THE } Theodore Roosevelt. 291 Theodore Roosevelt. 301 323 xii |