Stories of Later American History

Wilbur Fisk Gordy

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Stories of Later American History, by Wilbur F. Gordy This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Stories of Later American History Author: Wilbur F. Gordy Release Date: June 19, 2006 [eBook #18618] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY*** E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Pioneers on the Overland Route, Westward. STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY BY WILBUR F. GORDY FORMERLY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.; AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SCHOOLS,” “ELEMENTARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,” “AMERICAN LEADERS AND HEROES,” “AMERICAN BEGINNINGS IN EUROPE,” “STORIES OF AMERICAN EXPLORERS,” “COLONIAL DAYS,” AND “STORIES OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY” WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON C OPYRIGHT , 1915, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS PREFACE This book, like “Stories of Early American History,” follows somewhat closely the course of study prepared by the Committee of Eight, the present volume covering the topics outlined for Grade V, while the earlier one includes the material suggested for Grade IV. It was the plan of that committee to take up in these grades, largely in a biographical way, a great part of the essential facts of American history; and with this plan the author, who was a member of that committee, was in hearty accord. This method, it is believed, serves a double purpose. In the first place, it is the best possible way of laying the foundation for the later and more detailed study of United States history in the higher grammar grades by those pupils who are to continue in school; and in the second, it gives to that large number of pupils who will leave school before the end of the sixth grade—which is at least half of all the boys and girls in the schools of the country—some acquaintance with the leading men and prominent events of American history. It is without doubt a great mistake to allow half of the pupils to go out from our public schools with almost no knowledge of the moral and material forces which have made this nation what it is to-day. It is an injustice to the young people themselves; it is also an injury to their country, the vigor of whose life will depend much upon their intelligent and patriotic support. With this conviction, it has been the author’s desire to make the story of the events concrete, dramatic, and lifelike by centring them about leaders, heroes, and other representative men, in such a way as to appeal to the imagination and to influence the ideals of the child. In so doing, he has made no attempt to write organized history—tracing out its intricate relations of cause and effect. At the same time, however, he has aimed to select his facts and events so carefully that the spirit of our national life and institutions, as well as many of the typical events of American history, may be presented. It is confidently hoped that the fine illustrations and the attractive typographical features of the book will help to bring vividly before the mind of the child the events narrated in the text. Another aid in making the stories vivid will, it is intended, be found in “Some Things to Think About.” These and many similar questions, which the teacher can easily frame to fit the needs of her class, will help the pupil to make real the life of days gone by as well as to connect it with the present time and with his own life. In conclusion, I wish to acknowledge my deep obligations to Mr. Forrest Morgan, of the Watkinson Library, Hartford, and to Miss Elizabeth P. Peck, of the Hartford Public High School, both of whom have read the manuscript and have made many valuable criticisms and suggestions. WILBUR F. G ORDY. HARTFORD, CONN ., April 15, 1915. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. PATRICK H ENRY SAMUEL A DAMS THE WAR BEGINS NEAR BOSTON G EORGE WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION N ATHANAEL G REENE AND O THER H EROES IN THE SOUTH JOHN PAUL JONES D ANIEL BOONE JAMES ROBERTSON JOHN SEVIER G EORGE ROGERS CLARK THE N EW REPUBLIC INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE N EW REPUBLIC INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. THE REPUBLIC G ROWS LARGER THREE G REAT STATESMEN THE CIVIL WAR FOUR G REAT INDUSTRIES INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS Pioneers on the Overland Route, Westward George III Patrick Henry Patrick Henry Delivering His Speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses William Pitt St. John’s Church, Richmond Samuel Adams Patriots in New York Destroying Stamps Intended for Use in Connecticut Faneuil Hall, Boston Old South Church, Boston The “Boston Tea Party” Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia John Hancock John Hancock’s Home, Boston A Minuteman Old North Church Paul Revere’s Ride Monument on Lexington Common Marking the Line of the Minutemen Concord Bridge President Langdon, the President of Harvard College, Praying for the Bunker Hill Entrenching Party on Cambridge Common Just Before Their Departure Prescott at Bunker Hill Bunker Hill Monument George Washington Washington, Henry, and Pendleton on the Way to Congress at Philadelphia The Washington Elm at Cambridge, under which Washington took Command of the Army Sir William Howe Thomas Jefferson Looking Over the Rough Draught of the Declaration of Independence The Retreat from Long Island Nathan Hale British and Hessian Soldiers Powder-Horn, Bullet-Flask, and Buckshot-Pouch Used in the Revolution General Burgoyne Surrendering to General Gates Marquis de Lafayette Lafayette Offering His Services to Franklin Winter at Valley Forge Nathanael Greene The Meeting of Greene and Gates upon Greene’s Assuming Command Daniel Morgan Francis Marion Marion Surprising a British Wagon-Train John Paul Jones Battle Between the Ranger and the Drake The Fight Between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis Daniel Boone Boone’s Escape from the Indians Boonesborough Boone Throwing Tobacco into the Eyes of the Indians Who Had Come to Capture Him James Robertson Living-Room of the Early Settler Grinding Indian Corn A Kentucky Pioneer’s Cabin John Sevier A Barbecue of 1780 Battle of King’s Mountain George Rogers Clark Clark on the Way to Kaskaskia Clark’s Surprise at Kaskaskia Wampum Peace Belt Clark’s Advance on Vincennes George Washington Washington’s Home, Mount Vernon Tribute Rendered to Washington at Trenton Washington Taking the Oath of Office as First President, at Federal Hall, New York City Washington’s Inaugural Chair Eli Whitney Whitney’s Cotton-Gin A Colonial Planter A Slave Settlement Thomas Jefferson “Monticello,” the Home of Jefferson A Rice-Field in Louisiana A Flatboat on the Ohio River House in New Orleans Where Louis Philippe Stopped in 1798 A Public Building in New Orleans Built in 1794 Meriwether Lewis William Clark Buffalo Hunted by Indians The Lewis and Clark Expedition Working Its Way Westward Andrew Jackson “The Hermitage,” the Home of Andrew Jackson Fighting the Seminole Indians, under Jackson Robert Fulton Fulton’s First Experiment with Paddle-Wheels The “Clermont” in Duplicate at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909 The Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 The Ceremony Called “The Marriage of the Waters” Erie Canal on the Right and Aqueduct over the Mohawk River, New York “Tom Thumb,” Peter Cooper’s Locomotive Working Model, First Used near Baltimore in 1830 Railroad Poster of 1843 Comparison of “DeWitt Clinton” Locomotive and Train, the First Train Operated in New York, with a Modern Locomotive of the New York Central R.R. S.F.B. Morse The First Telegraph Instrument Modern Telegraph Office The Operation of the Modern Railroad is Dependent upon the Telegraph Sam Houston Flag of the Republic of Texas David Crockett The Fight at the Alamo John C. Frémont Frémont’s Expedition Crossing the Rocky Mountains Kit Carson Sutter’s Mill Placer-Mining in the Days of the California Gold Rush John C. Calhoun Calhoun’s Office and Library Henry Clay The Birthplace of Henry Clay, near Richmond The Schoolhouse in “the Slashes” Daniel Webster The Home of Daniel Webster, Marshfield, Mass. Henry Clay Addressing the United States Senate in 1850 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln’s Birthplace Lincoln Studying by Firelight Lincoln Splitting Rails Lincoln as a Boatman Lincoln Visiting Wounded Soldiers Robert E. Lee Lee’s Home at Arlington, Virginia Jefferson Davis Thomas J. Jackson A Confederate Flag J.E.B. Stuart Confederate Soldiers Union Soldiers Ulysses S. Grant Grant’s Birthplace, Point Pleasant, Ohio General and Mrs. Grant with Their Son at City Point, Virginia William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman’s March to the Sea Philip H. Sheridan Sheridan Rallying His Troops The McLean House Where Lee Surrendered General Lee on His Horse, Traveller Cotton-Field in Blossom A Wheat-Field Grain-Elevators at Buffalo Cattle on the Western Plains Iron Smelters Iron Ore Ready for Shipment MAPS Boston and Vicinity The War in the Middle States The War in the South Early Settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee George Rogers Clark in the Northwest The United States in 1803, after the Louisiana Purchase (Colored) Jackson’s Campaign Scene of Houston’s Campaign Frémont’s Western Explorations Map of the United States Showing First and Second Secession Areas (Colored) Route of Sherman’s March to the Sea The Country Around Washington and Richmond 1 STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY CHAPTER I PATRICK HENRY Return to Table of Contents The Last French War had cost England so much that at its close she was heavily in debt. “As England must now send to America a standing army of at least ten thousand men to protect the colonies against the Indians and other enemies,” the King, George III, reas