Chapter V: The War with Mexico

THE VALOR OF BEN MILAM, Clinton Scollard 354
BEN MILAM, William H. Wharton 355
THE MEN OF THE ALAMO, James Jeffrey Roche 355
THE DEFENCE OF THE ALAMO, Joaquin Miller 357
THE FIGHT AT SAN JACINTO, John Williamson Palmer 357
SONG OF TEXAS, William Henry Cuyler Hosmer 358
TEXAS, John Greenleaf Whittier 358
MR. HOSEA BIGLOW SPEAKS, James Russell Lowell 360
THE GUNS IN THE GRASS, Thomas Frost 361
RIO BRAVO--A MEXICAN LAMENT, Charles Fenno Hoffman 362
TO ARMS, Park Benjamin 363
MONTEREY, Charles Fenno Hoffman 363
VICTOR GALBRAITH, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 364
BUENA VISTA, Albert Pike 364
THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA, John Greenleaf Whittier 366
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, Theodore O'Hara 368
WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS, James Russell Lowell 369
BATTLE OF THE KING'S MILL, Thomas Dunn English 370
THE SIEGE OF CHAPULTEPEC, William Haines Lytle 371
ILLUMINATION FOR VICTORIES IN MEXICO, Grace Greenwood 371
THE CRISIS, John Greenleaf Whittier 372
THE VOLUNTEERS, William Haines Lytle 374

CHAPTER VI

_Fourteen Years of Peace_

THE SHIP CANAL FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, Francis
Lieber 374
THE WAR SHIP OF PEACE, Samuel Lover 375
ON THE DEFEAT OF HENRY CLAY, William Wilberforce Lord 376
ON THE DEATH OF M. D'OSSOLI AND HIS WIFE, MARGARET FULLER,
Walter Savage Landor 376
THE LAST APPENDIX TO "YANKEE DOODLE," Unknown 376
DANIEL WEBSTER, Oliver Wendell Holmes 377
THE FLAG, James Jeffrey Roche 378
KANE, Fitz-James O'Brien 379
HERNDON, S. Weir Mitchell 380
BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER, Wallace Rice 380
BARON RENFREW'S BALL, Charles Graham Halpine 382

PART IV

THE CIVIL WAR

BATTLE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, Julia Ward Howe 384