Title from spine Includes Memoranda on the Civil War: letters to readers from featured correspondents and authors arguing points of content, etc. ; these pieces are interspersed among the other content of the compilation Hora christi / Alice Brown -- The Old Dominion / Thomas Nelson Page -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the President-elect at Springfield / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Grant's last campaign / Horace Porter -- The movement against Petersburg / E.P. Alexander -- The end / Robert Gilbert Welsh -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln's inauguration / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the formation of the cabinet / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The old band / James Whitcomb Riley -- The grand strategy of the war of the rebellion / W.T. Sherman -- Values / Richard E. Burton -- The closing scene at Appomattox Court House / George A. Forsyth -- An Australian cradle-song / by John Harrison Wagner -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Premier or President? / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Under the foam / Charlotte Fiske Bates -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The call to arms / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- An Eastern legend / Charlotte W. Thurston -- A far cry to heaven / Edith M. Thomas -- Eve / W.J. Henderson -- Colonel Rose's tunnel at Libby Prison / Frank E. Moran -- The roads that meet / Rose Hawthorne Lathrop -- Two Kentucky gentlemen of the old school / James Lane Allen -- Marse Phil / Thomas Nelson Page -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the national uprising / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Love's imagining / Hopestill Goodwin -- Lucina / Edith M. Thomas -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The border states / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- From out eternal silence do we come / Stuart Sterne -- The personality of Leo XIII / Maurice Francis Egan -- The chances of being hit in battle: a study of regimental losses in the Civil War / William F. Fox -- The mask / Elyot Weld -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the advance, Bull Run, Fremont, [and] military emancipation / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln and McClellan / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Bird music: sparrows / Simeon Pease Cheney -- Matthew Arnold / William P. Andrews -- Waiting for the bugle / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- The high tide at Gettyburg / Will H. Thompson -- The career of the Confederate ram Albemarle. Her construction and service / Gilbert Elliott -- The Albemarle and the Sassacus: an attempt to run down an iron-clad with a wooden ship / Edgar Holden -- The destruction of the Albemarle / W.B. Cushing -- Note on the destruction of the Albemarle / A.F. Warley -- A note of peace: reunions of the blue and the gray / George L. Kilmer -- The knight in silver mail / Minna Irving -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Tennessee and Kentucky / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The Mississippi and Shiloh / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Hard times in the Confederacy / A.C. Gordon -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Plans of campaign / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- As a bell in a chime / Robert Underwood Johnson -- A lake memory / William Wilfred Campbell -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Jackson's Valley campaign, and the Seven Days' battle / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- O ye sweet heavens! / T.W. Parsons -- Army hospitals and cases / Walt Whitman -- Restlessness / Emma Lazarus -- American machine cannon and dynamite guns / William R. Hamilton -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: First plans for emancipation / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The announcement of Emancipation / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- A regret / Agnes Maule Machar -- The all-kind mother / James Whitcomb Riley -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The removal of McClellan ; Financial measures ; Seward and Chase / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the edict of freedom / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The color line / Alfred Damon Runyon -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Retaliation ; The enrollment and the draft/ by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Temptation / Edith Willis Linn -- The close of Lincoln's career / Noah Brooks -- Unanswered / Charles Buxton Going -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The President and the draft ; Vallandigham ; The Peace Party at the polls / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The western soldier / Henry King -- General Lee after the war / Margaret J. Preston -- Can the emperor forget? / Louise Morgan Smith -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The Pomeroy circular ; The Cleveland convention ; The resignation of Chase / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- On the Indiana reservations / Frederic Remington -- Casco Bay / Benjamin S. Parker -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln renominated ; The Wade-Davis manifesto ; Horace Greeley's peace mission / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Something wrong / Julia G. Skinner -- Across the fields to Anne / Richard E. Burton -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The Chicago surrender ; Conspiracies in the north ; Lincoln and the churches / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- To a painter (J.E.B.) / Celia Thaxter -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Cabinet changes ; Lincoln reëlected ; Chase as Chief-justice / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Life / Louise Morgan-Smith -- To George Kennan / Nathan Haskell Dole -- Albemarle Cushing / James Jeffrey Roche -- The poet / Richard E. Burton -- Saint Mémin's portrait of Marshall / Joseph P. Bradley -- Telegraphing in battle / J. Emmet O'Brien -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Blair's Mexican project ; The Hampton Roads conference ; The XIIIth Amendment / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- War diary of a Union woman in the South / edited by G.W. Cable -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The second inaugural ; Five Forks ; Appomattox / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The fall of the rebel capital ; Lincoln in Richmond / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- With a copy of Shelley / Harriet Monroe -- Garfield and Conkling / Amelia B. Edwards -- The undertone / T.T. Munger -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The fourteenth of April ; The fate of the assassins ; The mourning pageant / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Pursuit and death of John Wilkes Booth / Edward P. Doherty -- The winter fields / Charles G.D. Roberts -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: The capture of Jefferson Davis ; The end of rebellion ; Lincoln's fame / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The life mask / Stuart Sterne -- The cenotaph / James T. McKay -- The biographers of Lincoln [fragment, unattributed] -- Ode / George Edward Woodberry -- Lincoln's literary experiments / John G. Nicolay -- Old Dutch masters: Meyndert Hobbema (1638-1709) / T. Cole -- My first and last balloon ascension / Robert V.V. Sewell -- The death of Abraham Lincoln / by Ida M. Tarbell -- Some recollections of John Wilkes Booth / Clara Morris -- Home / Paul Kester -- The capture, death, and burial of J. Wilkes Booth / Ray Stannard Baker -- Four Negro songs / John Charles McNeill -- Characteristic glimpses of Lincoln / Cicero T. Sutton -- Lincoln and Booth: a chronicle of their last days / Clara E. Laughlin -- Lincoln's last day / William H. Crook -- Exultation / Mary Eastwood Knevels -- Ad myrtillam / Felix Carmen -- How Wilkes Booth crossed the Potomac / George Alfred Townsend -- Evening / John Vance Cheney -- The shadow baby / Jennie E.T. Dowe -- Lincoln's place in history / John Coleman Adams -- Lincoln's Gettysburg address / John G. Nicolay -- Battlefield of Gettysburg / John B. McPherson -- The moon-flower / Julia Schayer -- The national military park (embracing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga battle-fields) / H.V. Boynton -- The battle of Chickamauga / Maurice Thompson A compilation of articles, poetry, and correspondence selected from The century magazine, Harper's monthly magazine, Hampton's magazine, and Uncle Sam's magazine Bound in cloth, with embossed gold lettering on spine, and colored illustrations affixed to front lining papers; an unattributed poem affixed to rear lining paper 18