Hero Tales from American History
1895
Twenty-six short accounts of American courage written by Roosevelt and Lodge for young readers, from Washington and Daniel Boone to Farragut at Mobile Bay and Lincoln. Each author signed his own chapters, and the preface sets out what they thought such stories were for.
- Preface
- 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
- Lincoln