1. Paul Revere’s Ride _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 3 2. Mary Butler’s Ride _Benjamin Franklin Taylor_ 7 3. The Surprise at Ticonderoga _Mary Anna Phinney Stansbury_ 13 4. Montgomery at Quebec _Clinton Scollard_ 17 5. The Maryland Battalion _John Williamson Palmer_ 19 6. Arnold at Stillwater _Thomas Dunn English_ 21 7. The Yankee Man-of-War _Anonymous_ 27 8. The Ride of Jennie M’Neal _Will Carleton_ 29 9. The Song of Marion’s Men _William Cullen Bryant_ 34 10. How We Burned the “Philadelphia” _Barrett Eastman_ 36 11. The “Shannon” and the “Chesapeake” _Thomas Tracy Bouvé_ 40 12. The Fight of the “Armstrong” Privateer _James Jeffrey Roche_ 43 13. The Men of the Alamo _James Jeffrey Roche_ 48 14. The Fight at the San Jacinto _John Williamson Palmer_ 51 15. Monterey _Charles Fenno Hoffman_ 54 16. The Defense of Lawrence _Richard Realf_ 55 17. Blood Is Thicker than Water _Wallace Rice_ 57 18. Bethel _Augustine Joseph Hickey 19. The Charge by the Ford _Thomas Dunn English_ 64 20. The Little Drummer _Richard Henry Stoddard_ 66 21. The Cumberland _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 70 22. Johnston at Shiloh _Fleming James_ 72 23. The River Fight _Henry Howard Brownell_ 77 24. Kearny at Seven Pines _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 81 25. The Unknown Hero _William Gordon McCabe_ 83 26. Barbara Frietchie _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 84 27. The Eagle of Corinth _Henry Howard Brownell_ 87 28. Ready _Phœbe Cary_ 90 29. The Battle of Charleston Harbor _Paul Hamilton Hayne_ 91 30. Keenan’s Charge _George Parsons Lathrop_ 93 31. The Hero of the Gun _Margaret Junkin Preston_ 97 32. An Incident of War _Maurice Thompson_ 99 33. The Black Regiment _George Henry Boker_ 101 34. Greencastle Jenny _Helen Gray Cone_ 104 35. John Burns of Gettysburg _Bret Harte_ 106 36. High Tide at Gettysburg _Will Henry Thompson_ 11O 37. Thomas at Chickamauga _Kate Brownlee Sherwood_ 113 38. The Smallest of the Drums _James Buckham_ 117 39. Little Giffen _Francis Orrery Ticknor_ 119 40. Ulric Dahlgren _Kate Brownlee Sherwood_ 121 41.