TOLD BY CONTEMPORARIES. BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, _Harvard University_. The Set of Four Volumes, $7.00. Each Volume sold Separately, Price $2.00. VOL. I. Era of Colonization, 1493-1689. _Published 1897._ VOL. II. Building of the Nation, 1689-1783. _Ready shortly._ VOL. III. National Expansion, 1783-1844. _In Preparation._ VOL. IV. Welding of the Nation, 1845-1897. _In Preparation._ Professor T. H. WOOD, of Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass., says of Volume I.:-- “_The plan and the contents are alike admirable. The set will be a necessity for libraries and for teachers of American History._” THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York. FOOTNOTES: [1] These notes were originally printed in the great war book of the Century Company, entitled: “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.” They are here reprinted by the courteous and very generous permission of the Century Company. [2] This story was first printed in the _Galaxy_ for December, 1875. It is here reprinted by courteous permission of Colonel William Conant Church, now of the _Army and Navy Journal_, under whose editorship the _Galaxy_ was made a conspicuous and honorable factor in American literature. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original.