IX. Henry Ward Beecher: The Appeal to
England 212

X. Heroes of Battle: American Soldiers
and Sailors 242

XI. The Life of the People at Home Who
Supported the Soldiers at the Front 263

XII. Abraham Lincoln: The Martyred President 288

INDEX 327




I

RISE OF AMERICAN SLAVERY: GROWTH OF THE TRAFFIC


The history of the nineteenth century holds some ten wars that disturbed
the nations of the earth, but perhaps our Civil War alone can be fully
justified at the bar of intellect and conscience. That war was fought,
not in the interest of territory or of national honour,--it was fought
by the white race for the enfranchisement of the black race, and to show
that a democratic government, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal, could permanently endure.