  It had taken Grant a whole year to place his army in position on the hills in the rear of Vicksburg, but he had stuck to the campaign with the tenacity of a bulldog. At first he had tried to move his army south by rail from Memphis, but Van Dorn had destroyed his supplies and cut the railroad. He had tried to get his army below Vicksburg through various channels and bayous on the west side of the great river, but had found this plan impossible. He had tried to come down by way of the Yazoo and other water-courses on the east side of the Mississippi, and had had a narrow escape from disaster. The Confederates had felled trees across the narrow channels and had built Fort Pemberton of mud and cotton-bales, which the Union men found they could not pass, and in the end they were glad to get out of the maze of water-courses and endless swamps and forests. Then he had dug a canal across a neck of land below Vicksburg, but the river had risen and had filled the canal with sand and mud. At last, Admiral Porter’s gunboats and transports had rapidly run the batteries of Vicksburg on a dark night. Grant had marched his army past Vicksburg on the west side of the river. He had crossed the river at Bruinsburg and in a most daring manner he had cut loose from any base of supplies. With five days’ rations in their knapsacks his men had for nearly three weeks lived on the country, had quickly turned from one hostile army upon the other and defeated them in detail. They had driven Pemberton into Vicksburg. They had built two lines of fortifications, one facing west against Pemberton in Vicksburg, and one facing east against Johnston, and since the nineteenth of May they held Pemberton in the wooded hills two miles east of Vicksburg. Grant’s army, consisting of only about 40,000 men at first, had now been strengthened to more than 70,000 men. Since the middle of June, Vicksburg was so closely besieged that not even a rowboat could get in or out. On the twenty-second of May, Grant had tried to take the town by assault, but the Confederates put up such a stubborn defense that the attempt failed. Since that time, the Union army had carried on a regular siege with the intention of starving Vicksburg and the Confederate army into surrender. The Northern soldiers had destroyed the railroad east of Vicksburg, so that Johnston could not quickly move upon them and soon the Union army was so strong that Grant could have fought Pemberton and Johnston at the same time. The Union army had now plenty of food and ammunition and was strongly entrenched, while the fall of Vicksburg and the surrender of Pemberton’s brave army seemed only a matter of time. By the first of July, it became evident that Johnston would not be able to relieve either the city or the garrison. Provisions were nearly gone and the men were exhausted by continuous duty and watching and through the incessant bombardments by the Union troops. On the third of July, Generals Pemberton and Grant met between the lines for a brief conference. On the Fourth, the white flag floated over Vicksburg. The Gibraltar of the Mississippi had surrendered and 31,000 brave Confederate soldiers had become prisoners of war. Grant treated the prisoners with every consideration. Rations were issued to them by their captors, and the men who for months had faced each other as enemies became friends. The prisoners were not sent north, but men as well as officers were paroled and turned over to Major Watts, Confederate Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners. There was no cheer or taunt from the Federal soldiers, who stood at arms as the prisoners marched out of the city; they seemed to feel sorry for the fate of their late enemies. Haggard from the hardships of the siege, the men marched out in silence. Sad and silent the officers rode away on tired and dispirited horses, that had for weeks fed on nothing but mulberry leaves. In the city also, friendly relations were at once established between the Union soldiers and the inhabitants, nor was there a lack of comic and funny incidents. A negro servant, overcome by his desire to shine, rode about the city on his master’s silver-mounted saddle. After an hour, he returned with a very long face and a very old saddle. “George, where is my saddle!” asked his master. “I met a big Yankee soldier and he says to me, ‘You get off dat horse. I’s gwine to hab dat fine saddle.’ “I wa’n’t gwine to git off, but he pointed his pistol at me, and he says, ‘You black nigger, you git off,’ and I got off, and he gives me dis old saddle.” The fall of Vicksburg was an important event in the Civil War. A few days later, on the ninth of July, Port Hudson, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi, also surrendered, giving the Federals complete control of the great river and cutting the Confederacy in two by detaching Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. The Civil War settled a great question which had grown so vexing that no man or party was great enough to settle it, without appeal to arms. It brought untold sadness and suffering to thousands of homes, both North and South, but the South suffered much more than the North. It taught a great moral lesson and set a great example to the world, not merely of bravery and self-denial—that other nations have shown and are showing now—it showed to the world the greatest example of speedy reconciliation after the war. Had Lincoln lived through the painful days of reconstruction, the bitterness and hatred caused by the war would have vanished even sooner. But even with the Great Captain passed away, the best men North and South set earnestly to work, as soon as the war was over, to bind up and heal the nation’s wounds. A few years ago the Veterans in Blue and the Veterans in Grey met in a friendly reunion on the once blood-drenched field of Gettysburg. It was the greatest example of reconciliation the world has ever seen, an example, a living sermon, which a war-torn world will sadly need in the near future. Barker and his boys did not remain long in Vicksburg. As Jacob of old was persuaded by his sons to travel to distant Egypt, so old Seth Ferguson was led by his sons to the balmy fertile prairies of the Sky-tinted River. In peace and happy reunion the Ferguson family with Barker and Tatanka as guides, traveled up the Mississippi River by steamboat, and the boys never tired of pointing out to their parents the spots where they had camped and the cliffs and bluffs they had climbed. In the bottoms of the upper river, great masses of asters fringed the brown sandbars. When the party reached Fort Ridgely, the Minnesota prairie was ablaze with goldenrod, sunflowers, and purple stars, and the blackbirds were gathering in great flocks on the marshes in anticipation of feasting on the crops of wild rice, for which they have a great liking. After having spent almost a year on the Great River, the lads found their weather-beaten shanty spared by the furors of war, but the wild prairie had already begun to reclaim its own, as if impatient of human intrusion. In the boys’ garden patch, concealed by great rag-weeds and rich-scented milkweeds, a woodchuck had dug his den. A jungle of velvet-leaved false sunflowers almost barred the way to the cabin door. In a corner under the boys’ bunk, a family of chipmunks had established themselves and with mumpsy-looking cheeks were racing back and forth laying in a store of wild hazelnuts and long rice-like grains of speargrass. “You are lucky,” Tatanka remarked, “that Manka, the skunk, has not made his tunnels under your house. He would be hard to move.” Seth Ferguson filed on the claim on which the boys had lived. The woodchuck was allowed possession of the garden-patch until next spring, but Bill and Tim harvested an abundant crop of the wild fruit of the land—butternuts, hazelnuts, wild grapes, chokeberries and rich sweet plums. Barker did not return to following the trail of minks and foxes, but like the Fergusons broke up the virgin prairie to raise wheat and corn. When he grew too old to walk behind the plow, he gave his farm to his boys, Bill and Tim, who, a few years later, carried him to his last resting-place on the bluff overlooking the winding Minnesota River. Tatanka, with some other friendly Sioux, was assigned land on the Redwood River, where his descendants live to this day. The great war in the South, and the bloody tragedy of Minnesota are seen to-day through the mellow light of history. There is no longer bitterness and hatred between white men and red men, between North and South. On the Fourth of July, the bright Stars and Stripes float over North and South, over the Indian settlement on the Redwood, and over the white men’s towns around them. The tomahawk has been buried forever, but the Indian youths meet the white lads from farms and towns, all armed with bats and mitts, in the great American national game, the game that is destined to conquer the world with the gospel of vigor and good will. The Minnesota, Sky-tinted Water, and the Mississippi, the Everywhere River, wind their way to the Gulf as of yore, in beauty and grandeur. And here ends our tale of two wars and of the Lure of the Great River. THE END. ON THE TRAIL OF THE SIOUX The Adventures of Two Boy Scouts on the Minnesota Frontier By D. LANGE Illustrated 12mo Cloth Price, Net, $1.25 This story was written by a prominent educator to satisfy the insistent demand of active boys for an “Indian Story,” as well as to help them to understand what even the young endured in the making of our country. The story is based on the last desperate stand of the brave and warlike Sioux tribes against the resistless tide of white men’s civilization, the thrilling scenes of which were enacted on the Minnesota frontier in the early days of the Civil War. “It is a book which will appeal to young and old alike, as the incidents are historically correct and related in a wide-awake manner.”—Philadelphia Press. “It seems like a strange, true story more than fiction. It is well written and in good taste, and it can be commended to all boy readers and to many at their elders.”—Hartford Times. THE SILVER ISLAND OF THE CHIPPEWA By D. LANGE Illustrated 12mo Cloth Price, Net, $1.35 Here is a boys’ book that tells of the famous Silver Island in Lake Superior from which it is a fact that ore to the value of $3,089,000 was taken, and represents a youth of nineteen and his active small brother aged eleven as locating it after eight months of wild life, during which they wintered on Isle Royale. Their success and escape from a murderous half-breed are due to the friendship of a noble Chippewa Indian, and much is told of Indian nature and ways by one who thoroughly knows the subject. “There is no call to buy cheap, impossible stuff for boys’ reading while there is such a book as this available.”—Philadelphia Inquirer. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON LOST IN THE FUR COUNTRY By D. LANGE Illustrated 12mo cloth $1.25 net Mr. Lange is the superintendent of schools, St. Paul, Minn., and is famed for his knowledge of both natural and political history. He is also an expert in the very difficult art of interesting boys profitably, and has proved it to a very wide circle by his previous books. His third book, also an Indian story, has the elements of popularity: mystery, peril, and daring, told in graphic style, and presenting Indian nature and the general life of the great wild regions in the North with both charm and authority. “It is a thrilling story of Indian life. The author knows his subject thoroughly and writes with admirable simplicity and directness.”—Examiner-Watchman. IN THE GREAT WILD NORTH By D. LANGE Illustrated by W. L. Howes 12mo Cloth Price, $1.25 net The story opens at a Hudson Bay trading post, where the father of a sturdy Scotch lad, Steve McLean, is in charge. Wishing a home of their own, Steve and his father, with a faithful Indian as guide, make a five-hundred-mile canoe trip to Red River, and join in one of great historic buffalo hunts, after which they make a thrilling escape from the hostile Blackfeet Indians. Then comes a most adventurous trip down the Arkansas River to the Mississippi and thence to St. Louis, where the story closes happily. It gives a stirring, accurate and fascinating account of pioneer life as the hardy men and boys of earlier days knew it. “Mr. Lange’s volume gives a faithful account of early pioneer days and hardships, introducing much valuable knowledge of Indian craft and wild life.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON Books by Everett T. Tomlinson. THE WAR OF 1812 SERIES Seven volumes Cloth Illustrated Price, Net, $1.35 each No American writer for boys has ever occupied a higher position than Dr. Tomlinson, and the “War of 1812 Series” covers a field attempted by no other juvenile literature in a manner that has secured continued popularity.
ST. LAWRENCE SERIES Cloth Illustrated Price, Net, $1.35 each The author stands in the very front rank in ability to instruct the young while entertaining them and here presents a series in his best and strongest vein. A party of boys, fascinated by the glowing narrative of Parkman, spend several summers in camp and on the majestic St. Lawrence, tracing the footsteps of the early explorers, and having the best time imaginable in combining pleasure with information. CAMPING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE, Or, On the Trail of the Early Discoverers THE HOUSE-BOAT ON THE ST. LAWRENCE, Or, Following Frontenac CRUISING IN THE ST. LAWRENCE, Or, A Summer Vacation in Historic Waters For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON THE BOY ELECTRICIAN Practical Plans for Electrical Toys and Apparatus, with an Explanation of the Principles of Every-Day Electricity By ALFRED P. MORGAN Author of “Wireless Telegraphy Construction for Amateurs” and “Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony” 300 illustrations and working drawings by the author Net, $2.00 Postpaid, $2.25 This is the age of electricity. The most fascinating of all books for a boy must, therefore, be one dealing with the mystery of this ancient force and modern wonder. The best qualified of experts to instruct boys has in a book far superior to any other of its kind told not only how to MAKE all kinds of motors, telegraphs, telephones, batteries, etc., but how these appliances are used in the great industrial world. “Of all books recently published on practical electricity for the youthful electricians, it is doubtful if there is even one among them that is more suited to this field. This work is recommended to every one interested in electricity and the making of electrical appliances.”—Popular Electricity and Modern Mechanics. “This is an admirably complete and explicit handbook for boys who fall under the spell of experimenting and ‘tinkering’ with electrical apparatus. Simple explanations of the principles involved make the operation readily understandable.”—Boston Transcript. “Any boy who studies this book, and applies himself to the making and operating of the simple apparatus therein depicted, will be usefully and happily employed. He will, furthermore, be developing into a useful citizen. For this reason we recommend it as an excellent gift for all boys with energy, application, and ambition.”—Electrical Record, N. Y. City. “A book to delight the hearts of ten thousand—perhaps fifty thousand-American boys who are interested in wireless telegraphy and that sort of thing. Any boy who has even a slight interest in things electrical, will kindle with enthusiasm at sight of this book.”—Chicago News. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON THE BOOK OF ATHLETICS Edited by PAUL WITHINGTON With many reproductions of photographs, and with diagrams 8vo Net, $1.50 Postpaid, $1.70 Nearly thirty college stars and champions, men like Dr. Kraenzlein, Thorpe, Ketcham, “Sammy” White, “Eddie” Hart, Ralph Craig, “Hurry Up” Yost, Jay Camp, Homer, Jackson, F. D. Huntingdon, R. Norris Williams, “Eddie” Mahan, and many more tell the best there is to tell about every form of athletic contest of consequence. In charge of the whole work is Paul Withington, of Harvard, famous as football player, oarsman, wrestler and swimmer. “Here is a book that will serve a purpose and satisfy a need. Every important phase of sport in school and college is discussed within its covers by men who have achieved eminent success in their line. Methods of training, styles of play, and directions for attaining success are expounded in a clear, forceful, attractive manner.”—Harvard Monthly. “The book is made up under the direction of the best qualified editor to be found, Paul Withington, who is one of America’s greatest amateur athletes, and who has the intellectual ability and high character requisite for presenting such a book properly. The emphasis placed upon clean living, fair play and moderation in all things makes this book as desirable educationally as it is in every other way.”—Outdoor Life. “That Mr. Withington’s book will be popular we do not doubt. For it contains a series of expert treatises on all important branches of outdoor sports. A very readable, practical, well-illustrated book.”—Boston Herald. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON U. S. SERVICE SERIES By Francis Rolt-Wheeler Illustrated from photographs taken in work for U. S. Government Large 12mo Cloth $1.35 each, net “There are no better books for boys than Francis Rolt-Wheeler’s ‘U. S. Service Series.’”—Chicago Record-Herald. THE BOY WITH THE U. S. SURVEY This story describes the thrilling adventures of members of the U. S. Geological Survey, graphically woven into a stirring narrative that both pleases and instructs. The author enjoys an intimate acquaintance with the chiefs of the various bureaus in Washing, ton, and is able to obtain at first hand the material for his books. “There is abundant charm and vigor in the narrative which ii sure to please the boy readers and will do much toward stimulating their patriotism by making them alive to the needs of conservation of the vast resources of their country.”—Chicago News. THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FORESTERS The life of a typical boy is followed in all its adventurous detail—the mighty representative of our country’s government, though young in years—a youthful monarch in a vast domain of forest. Replete with information, alive with adventure, and inciting patriotism at every step, this handsome book is one to be instantly appreciated. “It is a fascinating romance of real life in our country, and will prove a great pleasure and inspiration to the boys who read it.”—The Continent, Chicago. THE BOY WITH THE U. S. CENSUS Through the experiences of a bright American boy, the author shows how the necessary information is gathered. The securing of this often involves hardship and peril, requiring journeys by dog-team in the frozen North and by launch in the alligator-filled Everglades of Florida, while the enumerator whose work lies among the dangerous criminal classes of the greater cities must take his life in his own hands. “Every young man should read this story from cover to cover, thereby getting a clear conception of conditions as they exist to-day, for such knowledge will have a clean, invigorating and healthy Influence on the young growing and thinking mind.”—Boston Globe. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON U. S. SERVICE SERIES By FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER Many illustrations from photographs taken in work for U.S. Government Large 12mo Cloth Net $1.35 per volume “There are no better books for boys than Francis Rolt-Wheeler’s ‘U.S. Service Series.’”—Chicago Record-Herald. THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FISHERIES With a bright, active American youth as a hero, is told the story of the Fisheries, which in their actual importance dwarf every other human industry. The book does not lack thrilling scenes. The far Aleutian Islands have witnessed more desperate sea-fighting than has occurred elsewhere since the days of the Spanish buccaneers, and pirate craft, which the U. S, Fisheries must watch, rifle in hand, are prowling in the Behring Sea to-day. The fish-farms of the United States are as interesting as they are immense in their scope. “One of the best books for boys of all ages, so attractively written and illustrated as to fascinate the reader into staying up until all hours to finish ...”—Philadelphia Despatch. THE BOY WITH THE U. S. INDIANS This book tells all about the Indian as he really was and is; the Menominee in his birch-bark canoe; the Iroquois in his wigwam in the forest; the Sioux of the plains upon his war-pony; the Apache, cruel and unyielding as his arid desert; the Pueblo Indians, with remains of ancient Spanish civilization lurking in the fastnesses of their massed communal dwellings; the Tlingit of the Pacific Coast, with his totem-poles. With a typical bright American youth as a central figure, a good idea of a great field of national activity is given, and made thrilling in its human side by the heroism demanded by the little-known adventures of those who do the work of “Uncle Sam.” “An exceedingly Interesting Indian story, because it is true, and not merely a dramatic and picturesque incident of Indian life.”—N. Y. Times. “It tells the Indian’s story in a way that will fascinate the Youngster.”—Rochester Herald. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON U. S. SERVICE SERIES By FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER Many Illustrations from photographs taken in work for U. S. Government Large 12mo Cloth Net, $1.35 each “There are no better books for boys than Francis Rolt-Wheeler’s ‘U. S. Service Series.’”—Chicago Record-Herald. THE BOY WITH THE U. S. EXPLORERS The hero saves the farm in Kansas, which his father is not able to keep up, through a visit to Washington which results in making the place a kind of temporary experiment station. Wonderful facts of plant and animal life are brought out, and the boy wins a trip around the world with his friend, the agent. This involves many adventures, while exploring the Chinese country for the Bureau of Agriculture. “Boys will be delighted with this story, which is one that inspires the readers with the ideals of industry, thrift and uprightness of conduct.”—Argus-Leader, Portland, Me. The billows surge and thunder through this book, heroism and the gallant facing of peril are wrought into its very fabric, and the Coast Guard has endorsed its accuracy. The stories of the rescue of the engineer trapped on a burning ship, and the pluck of the men who built the Smith’s Point Lighthouse are told so vividly that it is hard to keep from cheering aloud. “This is an ideal book for boys because it is natural, inspiring, and of unfailing interest from cover to cover.”—Marine Journal. THE BOY WITH THE U. S. MAIL How much do you know of the working of the vast and wonderful Post Office Department? The officials of this department have, as in the case of all other Departments covered in this series, extended their courtesy to Dr. Rolt-Wheeler to enable him to tell us about one of the most interesting forms of Uncle Sam’s care for us. “Stamp collecting, carrier pigeons, aeroplanes, detectives, hold-ups, tales of the Overland trail and the Pony Express, Indians, Buffalo Bill—what boy would not be delighted with a book in which all these fascinating things are to be found?”—Universalist Leader. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON PHILLIPS EXETER SERIES By A. T. DUDLEY Cloth, 12mo Illustrated by Charles Copeland Price, net $1.25 each FOLLOWING THE BALL Here is an up-to-date story presenting American boarding-school life and modern athletics. Football is an important feature, but it is a story of character formation in which athletics play an important part. “Mingled with the story of football is another and higher endeavor, giving the book the best of moral tone.”—Chicago Record-Herald. MAKING THE NINE The life presented is that of a real school, interesting, diversified, and full of striking incidents, while the characters are true and consistent types of American boyhood and youth. The athletics are technically correct, abounding in helpful suggestions, and the moral tone is high and set by action rather than preaching. “The story is healthful, for, while it exalts athletics, it does not overlook the fact that studious habits and noble character are imperative needs for those who would win success in life.”—Herald and Presbyter, Cincinnati. IN THE LINE Tells how a stalwart young student won his position as guard, and at the same time made equally marked progress in the formation of character. Plenty of jolly companions contribute a strong, humorous element, and the book has every essential of a favorite. “The book gives boys an interesting story, much football information, and many lessons in true manliness.”—Watchman, Boston. WITH MASK AND MITT While baseball plays an important part in this story, it is not the only element of attraction. While appealing to the natural normal tastes of boys for fun and interest in the national game, the book, without preaching, lays emphasis on the building up of character. “No normal boy who is interested in our great national game can fail to find interest and profit, too, in this lively boarding school story.”—Interior, Chicago. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON PHILLIPS EXETER SERIES By A. T. DUDLEY Cloth 12mo Illustrated Price, net $1.25 each THE GREAT YEAR Three fine, manly comrades, respectively captains of the football, baseball, and track and field athletic teams, make a compact to support each other so that they may achieve a “great year” of triple victory over their traditional rival, “Hillbury.” THE YALE CUP The “Cup” is an annual prize given by a club of Yale alumni to the member of the Senior class of each of several preparatory schools who best combines proficiency in athletics with good standing in his studies. A FULL-BACK AFLOAT At the close of his first year in college Dick Melvin is induced to earn a passage to Europe by helping on a cattle steamer. The work is not so bad, but Dick finds ample use for the vigor, self control, and quick wit in emergency which he has gained from football. THE PECKS IN CAMP The Pecks are twin brothers so resembling each other that it was almost impossible to tell them apart, a fact which the roguish lads made the most of in a typical summer camp for boys. THE HALF-MILER This is the story of a young man of positive character facing the stern problem of earning his way in a big school. The hero is not an imaginary compound of superlatives, but a plain person of flesh and blood, aglow with the hopeful idealism of youth, who succeeds and is not spoiled by success. He can run, and he does run—through the story. “It is a good, wholesome, and true-to-life story, with plenty of happenings such as normal boys enjoy reading about.”—Brooklyn Daily Times. For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON “INDIAN” STORIES WITH HISTORICAL BASES by D. LANGE 12mo Cloth Illustrated Price per volume, $1.25 net
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