Farragut _William Tuckey Meredith_ 122 42. Lee to the Rear _John Randolph Thompson_ 124 43. Craven _Henry Newbolt_ 128 44. Gracie of Alabama _Francis Orrery Ticknor_ 129 45. The Ballad of a Little Fun _Maurice Thompson_ 131 46. Sheridan’s Ride _Thomas Buchanan Reid_ 133 47. Down the Little Big Horn _Francis Brooks_ 135 48. The Bond of Blood _Will Henry Thompson_ 138 49. A Ballad of Manila Bay _Charles George Douglas Roberts_141 50. Dewey at Manila _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 143 51. The Men of the “Merrimac” _Clinton Scollard_ 147 52. The Charge at Santiago _William Hamilton Hayne_ 149 53. Spain’s Last Armada _Wallace Rice_ 150 54. Ballad of Paco Town _Clinton Scollard_ 155 55. Peace Hath Her Victories _Wallace Rice_ 161 56. In the Tunnel _Bret Harte_ 163 57. The Ballad of Calnan’s Christmas _Helen Gray Cone_ 165 58. How He Saved St. Michael’s _Mary Anna Phinney Stansbury_ 167 59. The Ride of Collin Graves _John Boyle O’Reilly_ 171 60. Jim Bludso _John Hay_ 174 61. George Nidiver _Anonymous_ 176 62. A Man’s Name _Richard Realf_ 178 63. The Man Who Rode to Conemaugh _John Eliot Bowen_ 180 64. Johnny Bartholomew _Thomas Dunn English_ 182 65. His Name _Margaret Junkin Preston_ 185 66. Old Braddock _John Vance Cheney_ 186 67. In Apia Bay _Charles George Douglas Roberts_189 NOTES 193 BALLADS OF AMERICAN BRAVERY _Great Greece hath her Thermopylæ;_ _Stout Switzerland her Tell;_ _The Scot his Wallace heart--and we_ _Have saints and shrines as well._ _Richard Realf._ IN TIME OF STRIFE 1 PAUL REVERE’S RIDE Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.