The National Memorial Volume: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the Great Events of Our Past Century; Including Also Delineations of All Our Great Historic Characters in the Most Striking Phases of Their Career

Richard Miller Devens

C.A. Nichols, 1880 - United States - 706 pages

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at the Feet of the British Realm by Her Youngest Colonies The whole World looks on Aston	25

Twenty Sudden and Terrible Blows with a Solid Gutta Percha Cane Dealt upon Mr Sumners	26

II	32

III	40

CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS HIS SPLENDID ARMY TO GENERAL WASHINGTON 1781	55

Him King Indignantly Rebukes the Proposal Last Review of His Troops Affecting Interview	63

Enemy of British Tyranny Fills this High Office What His Mission Involved All Europe	70

ment to be Framed Statesmen and Sages in Council Dignity Learning and Eloquence of	77

OF MEXICOIrritation between the United States and Mexico Points of Boundary Mexico	347

EXPEDITION TO THE RIVER JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA BY LIEUT W F 1847	354

of the Precious Metal Simple Accident that Led to It The Discovery Kept Secret How it	360

demics at Different Periods Frightful Mortality and Panic Business Abandoned Churches Closed	368

PROF JOHN W WEBSTER OF HARVARD COLLEGE High Social Position of the Par	376

Thousand Persons Welcome Her Arrival Transcendent Beauty and Power of Her Voice	386

P T Barnum Portrait and Autograph	392

America Distances by Nearly Eight Miles the Whole Fleet of Swift and Splendid Competitors	403

FIRST ELECTION AND INAUGURATION OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1789	84

Clairs Army in 1791 Before the Trained Warriors of Little Turtle This Mortifying Disaster	91

to the United States Excise Laws Monster Meetings and Inflammatory Appeals Officials	105

of Washington Bitter Sectional Contest in Deciding the Location First Compromise in Con	112

Words Fortitude and Serenity Through all His Sufferings He Calmly Announces His Approach	119

57	131

and Planets in Full Radiance Magnificent Spectacle of the Glittering Corona around the Moon	134

ion at the Southwest A New Empire Contemplated with Burr as SovereignSeizure of His Flo	142

Force Felt all Over the Valley of the Mississippi and to the Atlantic Coast The Earth Suddenly	156

TIME IN A SQUADRON FIGHT Lake Erie the Scene of the Encounter Sixteen Vessels	163

GENERAL JACKSONS TERRIBLE ROUT AND SLAUGHTER OF THE BRITISH 1815	171

Tempest Suffocating Current of Hot Air All New England Desolated	178

VISIT OF LAFAYETTE TO AMERICA AS THE GUEST OF THE REPUBLIC AT 1824	186

DUEL BETWEEN HENRY CLAY SECRETARY OF STATE AND JOHN RANDOLPH 1826	196

THE GREAT DEBATE BETWEEN WEBSTER AND HAYNE IN CONGRESS VI1830	205

RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE MORMONS OR LATTERDAY SAINTS UNDER 1830	214

CAREER CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF GIBBS THE MOST NOTED PIRATE 1831	222

GIBBS BUTCHERING THE CREW OF ONE	226

and Brilliant Celestial Phenomenon Ever Beheld and Recorded by Man The Whole Firmament	228

Remarkable Meteoric Display on the Missis	233

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JACKSON AT THE UNITED 1835	236

Old Man Eloquent Carries on a Contest of Eleven Days Single Handed in its Defense in	252

Flames Encircles the Earth Arches of Resplendent Auroral Glories Span the Hemisphere Innu	269

MAGNIFICENT AURORA BOREALIS OF	271

in the United States Origin Rapid Spread Influence and Wonderful History of the Movement	276

the South Pass Plants the American Flag on the Highest Peak of that Lofty Range He Enriches	285

MUTINY ON BOARD THE UNITED STATES BRIGOFWAR SOMERS CAPTAIN A 1842	291

SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF A GREAT AND FIERY COMET IN THE SKIES AT 1843	300

citing Prediction of the Second Advent of Christ The Speedy Fulfillment of the LatterDay Bible	307

V	310

AWFUL EXPLOSION OF COMMODORE STOCKTONS GREAT GUN THE PEACE 1844	315

Instinctive Dread of Pain Persistent Search for a Preventive Discovery of the LongSought	324

INVENTION OF THAT WONDROUS PIECE OF MECHANISM THE SEWING 1846	332

189	407

THE INVITED GUEST OF THE NATION Splendid Military Pageant in New York on	412

OR KOSSUTH IN NEW YORK	417

EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS IN NEW YORK Construction 1853	421

LOSS OF THE SPLENDID COLLINS STEAMSHIP ARCTIC OF NEW YORK BY 1854	429

316	443

Great Panic A Sudden Universal Crash in the Height of Prosperity Caused by Wild Specula	447

graph	449

POLITICAL DEBATE BETWEEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND STEPHEN A DOUG 1858	469

DEBATE BETWEEN LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS	470

ties of Illuminating Oil in the Depths of the Earth Boring of Innumerable Wells Fabulous Prices	476

BURNING OF ONE OF THE GREAT OIL WELLS	482

TOUR OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES 1860	493

the United States First Military Act in the Long and Bloody Struggle to Dismember the Union	501

Ideal of a Mechanical Miracle Principle Structure and Operation of the Machine NetWork	509

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY Three Months Since Sumter Fell On to Richmond	517

EXTRAORDINARY COMBAT BETWEEN THE IRONCLADS MERRIMAC AND MON 1862	526

One Hundred Thousand Men on Each Side General McClellan Declares on the Field that it	535

CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICKSBURG THE GIBRALTAR OF THE MISSISSIPPI 1863	554

THREE DAYS BATTLE BETWEEN THE CONCENTRATED ARMIES OF GENER 1863	563

ORATORICAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICAS CAUSE IN ENGLAND BY REV H 1863	573

COMBAT BETWEEN THE ALABAMA CAPTAIN SEMMES AND THE KEAR 1864	581

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT FORDS THEATER WASHING 1865	617

281	620

286	626

THOUSAND IN HALF A CENTURY Curious Chronicles Relating to the Introduction of	645

THE NORTHWEST Most Destructive Conflagration in the History of Civilized Nations	653

Changes Sought in the Relations between Producers and Consumers General Declaration	660

Lieut Worden Portrait and Autograph	662

of the Highest Civilization Condition of the Country Previous to such Efforts Early Scenes	667

251	678

Jubilee Festival and Pageant throughout the Land Prosperity Power and Renown of the	689

324	697

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Title	The National Memorial Volume: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the Great Events of Our Past Century; Including Also Delineations of All Our Great Historic Characters in the Most Striking Phases of Their Career
Author	Richard Miller Devens
Publisher	C.A. Nichols, 1880
Original from	University of Chicago
Digitized	23 Jun 2014
Length	706 pages

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