Hero Tales from American History

xiv, [2], 335 pp. Blue cloth, yellow titles, green and white wreath decoration on front board, engraved illustrations throughout. A collection of biographical vignettes highlighting various politicians, adventurers, explorers, and soldiers throughout American history. Contents include: 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.