Identifier: newhistoryofunit02morr (find matches)
Title: A new history of the United States. The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J. C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n . United States Capitol, Washington The Battle of FaUen Timbers Campaign Speechmaking in Earlier Days Fremont, the Great Pathfinder, addressing the Indians Battle of llesaca de la Palma The Blue and the Gray The First Battle of Bull Kun, ISGl The Attack on Fort Donelson General Lees Invasion of the North The Battle of jNIalvern Hill . The Fatal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson Picketts Return from his Famous Charge Attack on Charleston, August 23 to September 29, 1893 Shermans Three Scouts The Civil War Peace Cimference The Electoral Commission, 1ST7 The Farthest North Reached by Lieutenant Lockwood on the Greely Expedition The Washington Monument . Arbitration The Viking Ship at the Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 189 Congressional Library, Washington, D. C. Cathedral Spires in the Garden of the Gods City of Havana, Cuba The U. S. Battleship Maine Map of Cuba Americans Storming San Juan Hill In the War-room at Washington The United States Peace Commissioners of the Spanish War
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r AM READY FOR ANY SERVICE THAT I CAN GIVE MY COUNTRY )8 our Government was about to declare war against France. Congress appointed Washington comwander-in-chiefof tlie American Army. The Secretary of War carried ;lie commission in person to Mt. Vernon The oldhero, sitting on his horse in Che harves field, accepted n Jh^ above patriotic words. Authors Introduction. The annals of the world contain no more impressive example of the birthand growth of a nation than may be seen in the case of that whic-li has beenaptly termed the Greater E-epnblic, whose story from its feeble childhood to itsgrand maturity it is the purpose of this work to set forth. Three hundred yearsis a brief interval in the long epoch of human history, yet within that shortperiod the United States has developed from a handful of hardy men and women,thinly scattered along our Atlantic coast, into a vast and mighty countrypeopled by not less than seventy-five millions of human beings, the freest, richest,most industrio

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