Betty B.
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 23 Aug
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Murat Halstead, the nomination of Lincoln.
Jefferson Davis, the evacuation of Richmond and his own arrest in Georgia by federal troops.
Mrs. James Chestnut, wife of the Confederate general.
The firing on Fort Sumter.
Edmund Clarence Stedman,
The Retreat from Bull Run, General James Longstreet, Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, General Sheridan, Sheridan's Ride to Winchester, James G. Blaine, The Funeral of Lincoln, Cyrus W. Field, The Laying of the Atlantic Cable, Horace White, The Great Chicago Fire, William Jennings Bryan, The First Bryan Campaign, Admiral Dewey, The Battle of Manila Bay, and Admiral Peary, The Finding of the North Pole.
These accounts are often supplemented by passages from the writings of historians and biographers, including George Bancroft, Washington Irving, Francis Parkman, Richard Hildreth, William E. H. Leckie, James Shuler, and John Fiske, or from those of statesmen, journalists, and publicists, among them Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Thomas H. Benton, Robert Toombs, Horace Greeley, Bull Run Russell,
Carl Schurz, and Theodore Roosevelt.
The tables of contents prefixed to the several volumes or the index appended to the last will show how wide is the range of topics.
The events described have been of vital and often of transcendent importance to this country and Europe.
The writers will be found interesting as authorities and are often supremely competent, alike as authorities and writers.
The work is believed to present American history
in a form that will appeal to readers for its authenticity and its novelty.
Francis W. Halsey.
End of preface.
Section 1 of Great Epics in American History, Volume 1.
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