It is crucial for all Americans, and especially for the American youth, to remember and honor the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history. Thrift, industry, obedience to law, and intellectual cultivation are essential qualities in the makeup of any successful nation; but no nation can be really great unless it possesses also the heroic virtues which are as needful in time of peace as in time of war, and as important in civil as in military life.
Contents:
George Washington
Daniel Boone and the Founding of Kentucky
George Rogers Clark and the Conquest of the Northwest
The Battle of Trenton
Bennington
King's Mountain
The Storming of Stony Point
Gouverneur Morris
The Burning of the "Philadelphia"
The Cruise of the "Wasp"
The "General Armstrong" Privateer
The Battle of New Orleans
John Quincy Adams and the Right of Petition
Francis Parkman
"Remember the Alamo"
Hampton Roads
The Flag-bearer
The Death of Stonewall Jackson
The Charge at Gettysburg
General Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign
Robert Gould Shaw
Charles Russell Lowell
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
Lieutenant Cushing and the Ram "Albemarle"
Farragut at Mobile Bay
Abraham Lincoln