Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 . The Romance of the Civil War
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Part 1 PART I ON THE PLANTATION

• Chapter 1 1. Happy Days on the Plantation BY SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES (1840)

• Chapter 2 2. Aunt Charity and the Speculator BY CHARITY BOWERY (1844)

• Chapter 3 3. A Southern Planter's House BY EMILY BURKE (1845)

• Chapter 4 4. The Kidnapper By MRS. KATE PICKARD (1848)

• Chapter 5 5. Topsy's Arrival By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1852)

• Chapter 6 6. Topsy's Education By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1852)

• Chapter 7 7. How Friedman bought Peter By MRS. KATE PICKARD (1848)

• Chapter 8 8. How Peter bought Himself By MRS. KATE PICKARD (1848)

• Chapter 9 9. A Poor White's Opinion of Slavery BY HINTON RAVAN* HELPER (1857)

• Chapter 10 10. A Pompous Old Negro By EDWARD ALBERT POLLARD (1858)

• Chapter 11 11. A Slave Auction BY EDWARD ALBERT POLLARD (1858)

Part 2 PART II THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD AND THE CONTRABAND

• Chapter 12 12. On the Underground Railroad By LEVI COFFIN (1850)

• Chapter 13 13. "Zeke is Free" By REV. WILLIAM M. MITCHELL (1850)

• Chapter 14 14. The Ways of Fugitives By REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE (1850)

• Chapter 15 15. The Rescue of Jerry BY REV. SAMUEL JOSEPH MAY (1850

• Verse 16 16. Pass Him On By H. G. ADAMS (1854)

• Chapter 17 17. John Brown's Raid By CAPTAIN DANGER FIELD (1859)

• Verse 18 18. Battle-hymn of the Republic By MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE (1866)

• Chapter 19 19. Refugees from Slavery By ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1862)

• Chapter 20 2O. A Quick-witted Negro By GEORGE HENRY GORDON (1863)

• Verse 21 21. Song for our Soldiers

• Chapter 22 22. Scenes in Savannah By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1864)

• Chapter 23 23. A Slave's Reminiscences By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1864)

• Chapter 24 24. First School Days BY ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1865)

• Chapter 25 25. Calling the Roll BY ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1865)

• Chapter 26 26. A Colored Waif By ELIZABETH HYDE BOTUME (1865)

• Chapter 27 27. Contrabands BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1866)

• Stanza 28 28. Hymn of Freedom By RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1863)

Part 3 PART III IN AND OUT OF THE ARMY

• Verse 29 29. Our Country's Call By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1861)

• Chapter 30 30. Camp Life By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1862)

• Chapter 31 31. On the Way to War By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1832)

• Verse 32 32. Song of the Soldiers By PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY (1862)

• Chapter 33 33. A Guerilla Chief By Y B. ESTVAN (1862)

• Chapter 34 34. Off for the Front By GEORGE F. NOYES (1862)

• Chapter 35 35. The Innocent Deserter By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1862)

• Chapter 36 36. The Hunt for the Scout By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1863)

• Chapter 37 37. The Escape of the Scout By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1863)

• Chapter 38 38. The Guilty Deserter By GEORGE H. GORDON (1863)

• Verse 39 39. Trumpet Song

• Chapter 40 40. The Belligerent Quaker (1863)

• Chapter 41 41. The Quaker's Escape (1863)

• Chapter 42 42. A Courier's Evening By A TROOPER (1863)

Part 4 PART IV BOY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS

• Chapter 43 43. Young Farragut's Command By MIDSHIPMAN DAVID FARRAGUT (1813)

• Chapter 44 44. Cadet Grant at West Point By ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1838)

• Chapter 45 45. A Midshipman's Nightcaps By MIDSHIPMAN WILLIAM PARKER (1841)

• Chapter 46 46. The Rear Admiral as Midship-man By MIDSHIPMAN SAMUEL RHOADES FRANKLIN (1841)

• Chapter 47 47. A Young Officer in the War By SECOND LIEUTENANT ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1847)

• Letter 48 48. A Southern Officer to his Boys By CAPTAIN ROBERT E. LEE (1847)

• Verse 49 49. The Drummer Boy of Marble-head

• Chapter 50 50. A Boy Soldier

• Chapter 51 51. The Loyal Drummer-Boy (1861)

• Verse 52 52. The Dead Drummer-Boy

• Chapter 53 53. A Middy's Experiences By ROBLEY D. EVANS (1862)

• Verse 54 54. Gone to the War By HORATIO ALGER, JR. (1861)

• Chapter 55 55. A Boy who won the Cross BY A SOUTHERN LADY (1863)

• Chapter 56 56. A Visit from Neptune By CORNELIUS E. HUNT (1863)

Part 5 PART V IN CAMP AND ON THE MARCH

• Verse 57 57. March! By BAYARD TAYLOR (1862)

• Chapter 58 58. Tent Life By JOHN D. BILLINGS (1861)

• Chapter 59 59. "Hardtack and Coffee" By JOHN D. BILLINGS (1861)

• Chapter 60 60. On the March By CARLTON MCCARTHY (1861)

• Chapter 61 61. The Chevalier of the Lost Cause By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON (1861)

• Verse 62 62. Old Heart of Oak [1] By WILLIAM T. MEREDITH (1864)

• Chapter 63 63. An Escape from Prison

• Chapter 64 64. Escape from the Southern Lines By WILLIAM G. STEVENSON (1862)

• Chapter 65 65. Hiding Provisions from the Soldiers By VICTORIA VIRGINIA CLAYTON (1862)

• Chapter 66 66. In Camp with Grant By ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR CHARLES A. DANA (1863)

• Chapter 67 67. A Turkey for a Bedfellow By CORPORAL JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1863)

• Chapter 68 68. A Disappointing Dinner BY GENERAL GEORGE H. GORDON (1863)

• Chapter 69 69. Stonewall Jackson as a Man BY A VIRGINIAN (1863)

• Verse 70 70. Three War Songs

• Chapter 71 71. A Rainy Night By REVEREND GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)

• Chapter 72 72. An Incident in the March to the Sea BY GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN (1864)

• Chapter 73 73. Sheridan's Ride By THOMAS BUCHANAN READ (1864)

Part 6 PART VI UNDER FIRE

• Chapter 74 74. A Private in Battle By CARLTON MCCARTHY (1861)

• Verse 75 75. The Cavalry Charge By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1864)

• Chapter 76 76. Battle of Bull Run By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1861)

• Verse 77 77. Stonewall Jackson's Way By JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER (1862)

• Chapter 78 78. Bridging the Rappahannock By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN (1862)

• Chapter 79 79. A Cavalry Raid By JOHN ESTEN COOKE (1862)

• Chapter 80 80. On the Firing Line By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1863)

• Verse 81 81. Keenan's Charge By GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP (1863)

• Chapter 82 82. The Federals are Coming! BY A SOUTHERN LADY (1863)

• Chapter 83 83. Cave Life in a Besieged City By A SOUTHERN LADY (1863)

• Verse 84 84. Gettysburg By EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1863)

• Chapter 85 85. How the Negroes helped the Yankees By REVEREND GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)

• Chapter 86 86. A Negro Regiment Under Fire By REVEREND GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)

• Chapter 87 87. Chickamauga By COLONEL ROBERT L. KIMBERLY (1863)

• Verse 88 88. 0 Captain! My Captain! By WALT WHITMAN (1865)

Part 7 PART VII. ON DECK

• Chapter 89 89. Attack on Fort Fisher By ROBLEY D. EVANS (1865)

• Chapter 90 90. The Man Who made the Monitor By ADMIRAL DAVID PORTER (1863)

• Chapter 91 91. The Little Monitor and the Merrimac By CHARLES MARTIN (1862)

• Chapter 92 92. Chasing a Blockade-runner By CAPTAIN JOHN WILKINSON (1863)

• Chapter 93 93. Sinking the Tecumseh By LOYALL FARRAGUT (1864)

• Chapter 94 94. Running the Batteries By CAPTAIN ALFRED T. MAHAN (1862)

• Chapter 95 95. Escape of the Sumter By CAPTAIN RAPHAEL SEMMES (1864)

• Chapter 96 96. Passing the Forts on the Mississippi. By GEORGE HUGHES HEPWORTH (1863)

• Chapter 97 97. An Unfortunate Cow By FRANC B. WILKIE (1862)

• Chapter 98 98. Sinking the Albemarle By JOHN RUSSELL SOLEY (1864)

Part 8 PART VIII WOMEN AND THE WAR

• Chapter 99 99. "How are you, Sanitary ?" By MARY ASHTON LIVERMORE (1863)

• Chapter 100 100. Gifts for the Soldiers By MARY ASHTON LIVERMORE (1863)

• Chapter 101 101. A Too Successful Tombola By ELIZA RIPLEY (1862)

• Verse 102 102. "I am a Southern Girl"

• Chapter 103 103. The Yankee Wounded By B. ESTVAN (1863)

• Chapter 104 104. A Nurse's Experience By LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1862)

• Chapter 105 105. In the Hospital By JAMES KENDALL HOSMER (1863)

• Verse 106 106. Barbara Frietchie JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1863)

• Chapter 107 107. A Midnight Flight BY ELIZA RIPLEY (1862)

• Verse 108 108. The Johnny Reb's Epistle to the Ladies By W. E. M. (1862)

• Chapter 109 109. The Angel of the Battle-field By SURGEON JAMES L. DUNN (1862)