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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 34 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 22 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 16 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 10 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 10 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 8 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 8 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 8 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2: school days and early ventures (search)
tes his life, among the mountains of Vermont, to the extirpation of rattlesnakes, one of which has killed his wife. The Unquiet sleeper is based on the tradition of an old man in a New Hampshire village who died suddenly near his home, and whose cries were heard at night from the grave; the author claiming to have known people who had actually heard them. The spectre ship is from a tradition in Mather's Magnalia. The Midnight attack is a narrative of adventure with the Indians on the Kennebec River in 1722, on the part of Captain Harmon and thirty forest rangers. The human sacrifice records the escape of a young white girl from Indians, who are terrified by rumbling noises that proceed from a carbonate concealed in the rocks; this suggesting the Great Carbuncle of Hawthorne. All these themes, it will be noticed, are American and local, and hence desirable as selections; but the talent of the author was not precociously mature, like that of Hawthorne, nor did he continue in the sa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
5, 37. Isles of Shoals, 127, 179. Italy, 166, 167. J. Jackson, Mrs., Helen, her Spoken, mentioned, 163. James II., 6. Jefferson, Thomas, 69. Johnson, Oliver, his William Lloyd Garrison and his Times, mentioned, 72; introduction to, quoted, 73-75. Johnson, Samuel 162. Johnson, the Misses, 180. Journal of the Times, the, quoted, 25; mentioned, 73. Julian Hall, Boston, 59. K. Kansas, 64, 78. Keats, John, 50, 142. Kelley, Abby, 81. Kellogg, F. W., 108. Kennebec River, 36. Kennedy, William S., his Whittier, quoted, 84-86. Kent, Colonel, 58. Kent, George, 58, 59. Kittery , Me., 142. Kittredge, Mr., 41, 42. Knapp, Isaac, 76. L. La Fontaine, de, Jean, 160. Lamb, Charles, 105, 126, 128. Latimer, George, case of, 94. Law, Jonathan, 38. Law, Mrs., Jonathan, 39. Leverett Street, Boston, 74. Liberator, the, established, 48; mentioned, 66, 76, 78. Liberty Party, the, 68. Linton, W. J., 145, 165; his Whittier, quoted, 64; cited