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e Sovereignty and Liberty 185

 SAM HOUSTON, 1793-1863 189
 Cause of the Texan War of Independence 190
 Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 193
 How To Deal With the Indians 196

 WILLIAM CAMPBELL PRESTON, 1794-1860 199
 Literary Society in Columbia, S. C., 1825 201

 JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY, 1795-1870 204
 A Country Gentleman in Virginia 205
 His Wife 207
 How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men 210

 HUGH SWINTON LEGARÉ, 1797-1843 217
 Commerce and Wealth vs. War 217
 Demosthenes' Courage 219
 A Duke's Opinions of Virginia, North and South Carolina,
 and Georgia, in 1825 221

 MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, 1798-1859 223
 The Daughter of Mendoza 223

 FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS, 1798-1866 224
 The First Indian Baptism in America 225
 Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America 226
 The Lost Colony of Roanoke 226

 GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE, 1802-1870 228
 The Closing Year 228
 Paragraphs 231

 EDWARD COATE PINKNEY, 1802-1828 231
 A Health 232
 Song: We Break the Glass 233

 CHARLES ÉTIENNE ARTHUR GAYARRÉ, 1805-1895 235
 Louisiana in 1750-1770 236
 The Tree of the Dead 240

 MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, 1806-1873 243
 The Gulf Stream 246
 Deep-Sea Soundings 247
 Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon 249

 WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, 1806-1870 252
 Sonnet--The Poet's Vision 255
 The Doom of Occonestoga 255
 Marion, the "Swamp-Fox" 262

 ROBERT EDWARD LEE, 1807-1870 265
 Duty--To His Son 266
 Human Virtue--At the Surrender 266
 His Last Order, 1865 266
 Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College 268

 JEFFERSON DAVIS, 1808-1889 269
 Trip To Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to
 General Jackson 271
 Life of the President of the United States 272
 Farewell to the Senate, 1861 274

 EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-1849 276
 To Helen 279
 Israfel 279
 Happiness 281
 The Raven 281

 ROBERT TOOMBS, 1810-1885 284
 Farewell to the Senate, 1861 286

 OCTAVIA WALTON LE VERT, 1810-1877 288
 To Cadiz from Havanna, 1855 289

 LOUISA SUSANNAH M'CORD, 1810-1880 291
 Woman's Duty 292

 JOSEPH G. BALDWIN, 1811-1864 294
 Virginians in a New Country 294

 ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS, 1812-1883 296
 Laws of Government 297
 Sketch in the Senate, 1850 298
 True Courage 301

 ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK, 1814-1865 301
 Red Eagle, or Weatherford 302

 PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE, 1816-1850 305
 Florence Vane 305

 THEODORE O'HARA, 1820-1867 308
 Bivouac of the Dead 308

FOURTH PERIOD ... 1850-1895.

 GEORGE RAINSFORD FAIRBANKS, 1820- 311
 Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles 311

 RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON, 1822- 314
 Mr. Hezekiah Ellington's Recovery 315

 JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON, 1823-1873 317
 Ashby 318
 Music in Camp 319

 JABEZ LAMAR MONROE CURRY, 1825- 321
 Relations between England and America 322

 MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON, 1825- 324
 The Shade of the Trees 324

 CHARLES HENRY SMITH, ("BILL ARP"), 1826- 326
 Big John, on the Cherokees 327

 ST. GEORGE H. TUCKER, 1828-1863 329
 Burning of Jamestown in 1676 330

 GEORGE WILLIAM BAGBY, 1828-1883 332
 Jud. Brownin's Account of Rubinstein's Playing 332

 SARAH ANNE DORSEY, 1829-1879 336
 A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, 1866 338

 HENRY TIMROD, 1829-1867 341
 Sonnet--Life Ever Seems 344
 English Katie 344
 Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery 345

 PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE, 1830-1886 346
 The Mocking-Bird (At Night) 348
 Sonnet--October 349
 A Dream of the South Wind 349

 JOHN ESTEN COOKE, 1830-1886 350
 The Races in Virginia, 1765 351

 ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE, 1830-1894 358
 Changes Wrought by the War 360
 The Country Gentlemen 360
 The Negroes 362

 ALBERT PIKE, 1809-1891 365
 To the Mocking-Bird 365

 WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON, 1812-1882 367
 Major Jones's Christmas Present 368

 JAMES BARRON HOPE, 1827-1887 370
 The Victory at Yorktown 371
 Washington and Lee 372

 JAMES WOOD DAVIDSON, 1829- 373
 The Beautiful and the Poetical 373

 CHARLES COLCOCK JONES, JR., 1831-1893 376
 Salzburger Settlement in Georgia 376

 MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE ("MARION HARLAND") 379
 Letter Describing Mary [Ball] Washington When a Young
 Girl 381
 Madam Washington at the Peace Ball 381

 AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON, 1835- 383
 A Learned and Interesting Conversation 384

 DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS, 1836- 387
 The Land Where We Were Dreaming 388

 JAMES RYDER RANDALL, 1839- 389
 My Maryland 390

 ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN, 1839-1886 392

 WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE, 1841- 393
 Dreaming in the Trenches 393

 SIDNEY LANIER, 1842-1881 394
 Song of the Chattahoochee 396
 What is Music? 397
 The Tide Rising in the Marshes 397

 JAMES LANE ALLEN 398
 Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795 399

 JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, 1848- 401
 The Tar-Baby 403

 ROBERT BURNS WILSON, 1850- 405
 Fair Daughter of the Sun 406
 Dedication--A Sonnet 407

 "CHRISTIAN REID," FRANCES C. TIERNAN 407
 Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, N. C. 409

 HENRY WOODFEN GRADY, 1851-1889 413
 The South before the War 413
 Master and Slave 413
 Ante-bellum Civilization 416

 THOMAS NELSON PAGE, 1853- 419
 Marse Chan's Last Battle 421

 MARY NOAILLES MURFREE, ("CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK") 423
 The "Harnt" that Walks Chilhowee 423

 DANSKE DANDRIDGE, 1859- 429
 The Spirit and the Wood-Sparrow 430

 AMÉLIE RIVES CHANLER, 1863- 431
 Tanis 432

 GRACE KING 437
 La Grande Demoiselle 437

 WAITMAN BARBE, 1864- 441
 Sidney Lanier 442

 MADISON CAWEIN, 1865- 442
 The Whippoorwill 443

 DIXIE 444

 LIST OF AUTHORS AND WORKS omitted for lack of space 445

INDEX.

 PAGE
 A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, _Sarah
 A. Dorsey_ 338

 Address in Congress, 1800, on the Death of Washington,
 _Henry Lee_ 124

 A Dream of the South Wind, _Paul H. Hayne_ 349

 Advice to His Nephew, _George Washington_ 76

 A Health, _E. C. Pinkney_ 232

 Alamo, Fall of the 192

 A Learned and Interesting Conversation, _Augusta E. Wilson_ 384

 ALLEN, JAMES LANE 398

 Anecdotes of Alexander H. Stephens 296, 297

 An Honest Man, _George Washington_ 73

 Ante-bellum Civilization, _Henry W. Grady_ 416

 Arber, Professor, on John Smith's Writings 35

 A Sage Conversation, _A. B. Longstreet_ 182

 Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, _Christian Reid_ 409

 Ascent of the James River, 1607, _John Smith_ 42

 Ashby, _John R. Thompson_ 318

 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES 153

 Bacon, Nathaniel 330

 BAGBY, GEORGE WILLIAM 332

 BALDWIN, JOSEPH G. 294

 BARBE, WAITMAN 441

 Battle of Noewee, 1776, _John Drayton_ 129

 Battle of San Jacinto, 1836, _Sam Houston_ 193

 Battle of the Blue Licks, Ky., 1782 400

 Battle of Tohopeka, or Horse-Shoe Bend, Ala. 302

 Bear Hunt, _David Crockett_ 175

 Beauvoir 270, 273

 Beautiful and the Poetical, The, _Jas. Wood Davidson_ 373

 Beauty is Holiness 395

 BENTON, THOMAS HART 158

 "Be sure you are right," _David Crockett_ 178

 Big John, on the Cherokees, _Bill Arp_ 327

 BILL ARP (CHARLES HENRY SMITH) 326

 Bivouac of the Dead, _Theodore O'Hara_ 308

 Blind Preacher, _William Wirt_ 132

 Boone, Daniel 401

 British Treaty with the Cherokees, 1755, _David Ramsay_ 105

 Burning of Jamestown, 1676, _St. George H. Tucker_ 330

 Byrd, Evelyn 56

 BYRD, WILLIAM 54

 CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL 161

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