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Search - Colonel Alexander K.Mcclure's Recollections Of Half A Century

Colonel Alexander KMcclure's Recollections Of Half A Century
Author: Alexander K. Mcclure

Text extracted from opening pages of book: ALEXANDER K. M^ CLURE S RECOLLECTIONS OF HALF A CENTURY Author of Lincoln and Men of War Times, & quot; & quot; Our Presidents and How We Make Them/* & quot; Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains/ & quot; The South,& quot; & quot; To The Pacific and Mexico.& quot; PUBLISHED BY THE SALEM PRESS... more » COMPANY SALEM, MASS. COLONEL A. K. McCLURE, Copyright, 1902 BY ALEXANDER K. MCLURE Salem & amp; lt;& amp; gt; rcwt THE SALEM PRESS Co., SALEM, MASS. 1902 CONTENTS. MATCHLESS PROGRESS OF HALF A CENTURY, The greatest achievements of the world s history. Political battles of the olden times. Decline of popular oratory. ABRAHAM LWCOLN AND JEFFERSON DAVIS, ..... 8 The Presidents of our Civil War The difference in their birth, educa tion and personal attributes. CHRISTIANA AND HARPER S FERRY THE FIRST BATTLES OF OUR CIVIL WAR, 18 The conflict at Christiana, Pa., the preliminary skirmish of the four years struggle. THE BATTLE OF BRODERICK, BAKER AND MCKIBBIN TO HOLD THE PACIFIC REGION TO THE UNION, 29 The story of the distinguished and romantic careers of the three men who contributed most to shape the destiny of the Pacific Slope. GALES AND BLAIR, THE GREAT EDITORS OF OLDEN TIME, . . 37 Joseph Gales of the National Intelligencer, and Francis Preston Blair of the Washington Globe. IF THBY HAD Nor FIRED ON SUMTER, 48 The Southern Confederacy was a colossal suicide. The North was forced to unity in support of coercion by the firing on Sumter. THE ERA OF GOOD FEEUNG AND OF CONVULSION, .... 60 The ftood. tide of hate that convulsed the country under Johnson s administration without parallel in history of the country. THE PACIFIC RAILWAY AND THE SALE OF CHIHUAHUA, ... 70 Inner history of the construction of the first Pacific Railway. Story of the concession of lower California by President Juarez. FILLMORE, FIERCE, BUCHANAN, LINCOLN AND JOHNSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE, . 79 First visit to the White House in 18^ 1. Lincoln seen under all condi tions and circumstances. Reminiscences of first ladies of the land. GRANT AS CHIEFTAIN AND PRESIDENT, 89 How difficult Grant found it to enter the army in 1861. - His epigram matic dispatches and letters. Personal incidents of Grant s later life. THE HAYES ELECTION AND ADMINISTRATION, ..... 98 The Presidential contest that required an electoral commission to decide it, Incidents of the struggle. ( ia) IV CONTENTS, GARFIELD AND His BRIEF ADMINISTRATION, ..... 106 His hard struggles of early life. His distinction as scholar, teacher, preacher, general and statesman. ARTHUR AND His SUCCESSFUL ADMINISTRATION, .... 115 How he was dismissed from the New York collectorship and two years later became president. First distrusted and later honored as president. CLEVELAND S THREE CONTESTS AND Two ADMINISTRATIONS, . 124 His strong personality in public life. Heroic acts when great emer gencies arose. Mrs. Cleveland model mother and woman. HARRISON S VICTORY AND DEFEAT, ....... 134 Severely devoted to public and private duty. An able, patriotic and laborious president. Incidents exhibiting his personal qualities. MCKINLEY S TRIUMPH AND TRAGIC DEATH, ..... , I4 ^ The private soldier. The leader of the House. The re-elected president by the largest popular majority. The ideal statesman and citizen, THE SHADOWS OF OUR GREAT NATIONAL CONTESTS, . 154 How Burr, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Scott, Greeley, Elaine and others drank the cup of disappointment to the dregs. SAM HOUSTON S BRILLIANT AND ROMANTIC CAREER, . ... 164 Twice president of one republic. National senator in two republics. Governor of two states. His victorious fight for Texas independence with raw recruits. THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY ROBBERY, ..... . . 17? How it got its charter from the state. The libel suits against the writer and how they hastened its overthrow. THOMAS CORWIN, THE GREATEST OF OUR POPULAR ORATORS, 184 His great speech on the Mexican war. His 1 matchless eloquence, wit and invective. His brilliant argument o

ISBN-13: 9781406759426
ISBN-10: 1406759422
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 540
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Publisher: Mcclure Press
Book Type: Paperback
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