THEODOSIA BURR, John Williamson Palmer 346 ON THE DEATH OF COMMODORE OLIVER H. PERRY, John G. C. Brainard 347 ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, Fitz-Greene Halleck 348 ON LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT, John Pierpont 348 LA FAYETTE, Dolly Madison 349 THE DEATH OF JEFFERSON, Hezekiah Butterworth 349 OLD IRONSIDES, Oliver Wendell Holmes 351 CONCORD HYMN, Ralph Waldo Emerson 351 THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 351 OLD TIPPECANOE, Unknown 353 THE DEATH OF HARRISON, Nathaniel Parker Willis 353 CHAPTER V _The War with Mexico_ THE VALOR OF BEN MILAM, Clinton Scollard 354 BEN MILAM, William H. Wharton 355 THE MEN OF THE ALAMO, James Jeffrey Roche 355 THE DEFENCE OF THE ALAMO, Joaquin Miller 357 THE FIGHT AT SAN JACINTO, John Williamson Palmer 357 SONG OF TEXAS, William Henry Cuyler Hosmer 358 TEXAS, John Greenleaf Whittier 358 MR. HOSEA BIGLOW SPEAKS, James Russell Lowell 360 THE GUNS IN THE GRASS, Thomas Frost 361 RIO BRAVO--A MEXICAN LAMENT, Charles Fenno Hoffman 362 TO ARMS, Park Benjamin 363 MONTEREY, Charles Fenno Hoffman 363 VICTOR GALBRAITH, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 364 BUENA VISTA, Albert Pike 364 THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA, John Greenleaf Whittier 366 THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, Theodore O'Hara 368 WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS, James Russell Lowell 369 BATTLE OF THE KING'S MILL, Thomas Dunn English 370 THE SIEGE OF CHAPULTEPEC, William Haines Lytle 371 ILLUMINATION FOR VICTORIES IN MEXICO, Grace Greenwood 371 THE CRISIS, John Greenleaf Whittier 372 THE VOLUNTEERS, William Haines Lytle 374 CHAPTER VI _Fourteen Years of Peace_