The Ruler of the Republic--The President Chosen from the People--Why the People Liked Him--Lincoln's School Days--The North and South Differ--Lincoln, the Great War President 208 CHAPTER XXII THE GREAT CIVIL WAR What Civil War is--Where the War was Fought--Battle of Bull Run--"Stonewall" Jackson--General Ulysses S. Grant and How He Came to Command the Army--His "Unconditional Surrender" Message--Battle of Gettysburg 215 CHAPTER XXIII WAR ON SEA AND LAND Fight Between the "Cheesebox" and the Ram--How the Monitor Won the Fight--The Battle "Above the Clouds"--Battle of the Wilderness--Sherman's March to the Sea--Richmond Surrenders and the War Closes 225 CHAPTER XXIV THE WASTE OF WAR AND THE WEALTH OF PEACE What is Seen on the Picture of History--A Reign of Peace in America--The Ocean Cable and the Railroad--Alaska and its Treasures--The Burning of Chicago and other Disasters--Edison and His Work--The Triumphs of Electricity 234 CHAPTER XXV THE MARVELS OF INVENTION Professor Morse, the Famous Inventor--His Struggles and His Success--The First Message--Telephone and Other Inventions of Electricity--New Ideas in Machinery and the Comfort they Bring 242 CHAPTER XXVI HOW THE CENTURY ENDED FOR THE UNITED STATES The Nation's Birthplace--Centennial Exhibition and Columbian World's Fair--Our People's Progress--The Indians--Trouble in Cuba--War with Spain--Santiago and its Fleet--Dewey at Manila 253 CHAPTER XXVII HOW A HUNTER BECAME PRESIDENT Assassination of President McKinley--Theodore Roosevelt's Great Ride--His Election by the People--The Panama Canal--Roosevelt Declines Re-election and Goes to Africa 266 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK IN CULEBRA CUT, PANAMA CANAL _Frontispiece_ PAGE COLUMBUS AND THE EGG 25 WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE 137 THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 191 THE STORMING OF CHAPULTEPEC 199 THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THEIR FAMOUS AEROPLANE 242 CUSTER'S LAST FIGHT 258 ROOSEVELT SURPRISED BY A GIANT HIPPOPOTAMUS 266 A TALK WITH THE YOUNG READER ABOUT THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY