LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE GENERAL GRANT RECONNOITERING THE CONFEDERATE GEORGE WASHINGTON Frontispiece 9 DANIEL BOONE IN THE FRONTIER WOODS. AT CLOSE 21 35 49 "ALL DAY LONG THE TROOPS WADED IN ICY WATER' WASHINGTON Directing the Artillery AT TRENTON THE MARCH TO TRENTON CHARGE OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIERSMEN THE STORMING OF STONY POINT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FRIGATE “ PHILADELPHIA ” IN THE HARBOR OF TRIPOLI "THE FIGHTING SAILOR-MEN SPRANG FORWARD" THE PRIVATEER AND HER PRIZES 55 63 75 85 107 THE ENCOUNTER AT SHORT RANGE STONEWALL JACKSON GOING FORWARD ON THE PLANK UNION HEADQUARTERS, JULY 3, 1863. GENERAL GRANT ABRAHAM LINCOLN 243 255 267 285 297 307 329 The picture xiv "Hor. I saw him once; he was a goodly king. 1 HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY to WASHINGTON HE brilliant historian of the English people* TH has written of Washington, that “no nobler figure ever stood in the fore-front of a nation's life." In any book which undertakes to tell, no matter how slightly, the story of some of the heroic deeds of American history, that noble figure must always stand in the fore-front. But sketch the life of Washington even in the barest outline is to write the history of the events which made the United States independent and birth to the American nation. Even to give gave a list of what he did, to name his battles and recount his acts as president, would be beyond the limit and the scope of this book. Yet it is always possible to recall the man and to consider what he was and what he meant for us and for man* John Richard Green. |