OUTSIDE READINGS.--Blaisdell's _Stories of the Civil War_; Goss's _Jed, a Boy's Adventures in the Army_; Goss's _Tom Clifton_; Keiffer's _Recollections of a Drummer Boy_; Barnes's _Midshipman Farragut_; Henty's _With Lee in Virginia_; Page's _Two Little Confederates_. FOR READING AND RECITATION.--Read's _Sheridan's Ride_; Whittier's _Barbara Frietchie_; Howe's _Battle Hymn of the Republic_; Bryant's _Our Country's Call_; Bret Harte's _John Burns at Gettysburg_; Whitman's _O Captain! My Captain!_ (Death of Lincoln); Finch's _Blue and the Gray_; Miss Preston's _Gone Forward_ (Death of General Lee); Longfellow's _Cumberland_; Boker's _Black Regiment_; Byers's _Sherman's March to the Sea_; Bryant's _The Battlefield_; Wilson's _The Old Sergeant_; Bryant's _Abraham Lincoln_; Higginson's _Decoration_; Bryant's _Our Country's Call_; Stedman's _Sumter_; Bayard Taylor's _To the American People_, and _Scott and the Veteran_; Holmes's _Voyage of the Good Ship Union_; Stedman's _Wanted--a Man_; Whittier's _Battle Autumn of 1862_, and _Laus Deo_. CHAPTER XXVI. PAGES 406-423. THE WAR WITH SPAIN IN 1898. The most useful book for schools is perhaps Henry Cabot Lodge's _The War with Spain_. The following books are also useful: Brooks's _Story of Our War with Spain_; Abbot's _Blue Jackets of 1898_; Morris's _The War with Spain_; Davis's _The War of 1898_; and Spears's _Our Navy in the Spanish War_. INDEX. PAGE Alabama, career of the, 397 destroyed by Kearsarge, 397 claims for damage paid by England, 398 Albemarle, destruction of the, 403 America, in old days, 1 ancient, people of, 3 André, meeting with Arnold, 276 capture of, 277 sad fate of, 281 Appomattox, surrender of Lee at 380 Arnold, Benedict, sent to relieve Fort Stanwix, 209 story of his treason, 271-285 brilliant military career, 273 begins his wicked career, 273 meeting with André, 275 escape of, 280 after life of, 281 death of, 283 Barbary States, pirates of, 323 Battles: Antietam, 365 Bennington, 213 Bon Homme Richard and Serapis, 290 Bull Run, 364 Bunker Hill, 170-183 Camden, 255 Cedar Creek, 381 Chancellorsville, 369 Chesapeake and Shannon, 331 Chickamauga, 377 Concord, 162 Constitution and Guerrière, 327 Cowpens, 264 Eutaw Springs, 269 Fair Oaks, 365 Forts Henry and Donaldson, 365 Freeman's Farm, 218 Gettysburg, 369 Hobkirk's Hill, 269 Kearsarge and Alabama, 397 King's Mountain, 261 Lake Erie, 333 Lexington, 160 Lookout Mountain, 377 Manassas, 364 Manila, 410 Mobile, 399 Monitor and Merrimac, 392 Monmouth, 239 New Orleans, 337, 390 Oriskany, 207 Princeton, 237 Santiago, 418 Saratoga, 219 Trenton, 233 Vicksburg, 375 Yorktown, 242 Bennington, battle of, 213 Bon Homme Richard, battle with Serapis, 290 Boston boys and General Gage, 150