American History Stories, Volume IV by  Mara L. Pratt
Table of Contents
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Is Made President
"Fort Sumter"
The First Bloodshed
Federal Hill
The Confederate States
Young Colonel Ellsworth
Contrabands
The Contraband of Port Royal
A Negro's Answer
"Big Bethel" and "Little Bethel"
Bethel
Dixie's Land and John Brown's Body
The Battle Cry of Freedom
Battle of Bull Run
Eddy, the Drummer Boy
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
The Sea-Island Cotton Plantations
The Picket Guard
"The Sea Islands"
Seizure of Mason and Slidell
The Merrimac and the Monitor
The Last Broadside
Battle of Mill Spring—1862
A Brave Boy at Fort Henry
Taking of Donelson
A Plucky Boy at Fort Donelson
The Battle of Shiloh
The Old Sergeant
Brother against Brother
Quaker Guns
Dark Days
The Song of the Camps
Lee Is Kept from Entering Pennsylvania
Barbara Frietchie
The Virginia Army
Capture of New Orleans
Secession Women
The Mock Funeral
Affairs in the West
Sharp-Shooters
Stealing Potatoes
Joe Parsons
The Home Side of the War Picture
Lillie's Five-dollar Gold Piece
What Some Poor People Did for the Soldiers
Proclamation of Emancipation
Negro Song and Music
First Negro Regiment
Siege of Vicksburg
"Stonewall Jackson" Is Killed
Story of Stonewall Jackson
Battle of Gettysburg
John Burns; Jenny Wade
"Drafting"
Attack on Charleston
The Guerillas
Battle in the Valley of Chickamauga
Johnny Clem
"Battle in the Clouds"
Libby Prison
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
Old Virginia
On to Richmond!
Sheridan's Ride
Evacuation of Richmond
From Atlanta to the Sea
On to Atlanta
Torpedoes
Signals
The War Is Over
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Battle Hymn of the Republic

Negro Song

This is a funny old song that the "darkeys" used to delight to sing in the days when they believed "Father Abraham" was coming to free them.

[Illustration]


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