Hero Tales From American History - The Great Men Who Gave Their Lives to the Service

It is crucial for all Americans, and especially for the American youth, to remember and honor the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history. Thrift, industry, obedience to law, and intellectual cultivation are essential qualities in the makeup of any successful nation; but no nation can be really great unless it possesses also the heroic virtues which are as needful in time of peace as in time of war, and as important in civil as in military life.

Contents:

George Washington

Daniel Boone and the Founding of Kentucky

George Rogers Clark and the Conquest of the Northwest

The Battle of Trenton

Bennington

King's Mountain

The Storming of Stony Point

Gouverneur Morris

The Burning of the "Philadelphia"

The Cruise of the "Wasp"

The "General Armstrong" Privateer

The Battle of New Orleans

John Quincy Adams and the Right of Petition

Francis Parkman

"Remember the Alamo"

Hampton Roads

The Flag-bearer

The Death of Stonewall Jackson

The Charge at Gettysburg

General Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign

Robert Gould Shaw

Charles Russell Lowell

Sheridan at Cedar Creek

Lieutenant Cushing and the Ram "Albemarle"

Farragut at Mobile Bay

Abraham Lincoln