• CHAPTER PAGE
  
• I. Introductory Chapter. 13
  
• II. Of Revolutionary Sires. 19
  
• III. The Days of Homespun. 30
  
• IV. Politics, Travel, and Business. 41
  
• V. Electricity and Journalism. 55
  
• VI. The Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln. 66
  
• VII. The War Correspondent. 79
  
• VIII. With the Army of the Potomac. 95
  
• IX. Ho, for the Gunboats, Ho! 107
  
• X. At Antietam and Fredericksburg. 119
  
• XI. The Ironclads off Charleston. 132
  
• XII. Gettysburg: High Tide and Ebb. 141
  
• XIII. The Battles in the Wilderness. 151
  
• XIV. Camp Life and News-gathering. 162
  
• XV. "The Old Flag Waves over Sumter". 175
  
• XVI. With Lincoln in Richmond. 183
  
• XVII. The Glories of Europe. 189
  
• XVIII. Through Oriental Lands. 204
  
• XIX. In China and Japan. 215
  
• XX. The Great Northwest. 229
  
• XXI. The Writer of History. 238
  
• XXII. Music and Poetry. 256
  
• XXIII. Shawmut Church. 268
  
• XXIV. The Free Churchman. 284
  
• XXV. Citizen, Statesman, and Reformer. 294
  
• XXVI. A Saviour of Human Life. 308
  
• XXVII. Life's Evening Glow. 321
  
• XXVIII. The Home at Alwington. 333
  
• XXIX. The Golden Wedding. 341

Charles Carleton Coffin