J. Jackson
A Confederate Flag
J.E.B. Stuart
Confederate Soldiers
Union Soldiers
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant's Birthplace, Point Pleasant, Ohio
General and Mrs. Grant with Their Son at City Point, Virginia
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman's March to the Sea
Philip H. Sheridan
Sheridan Rallying His Troops
The McLean House Where Lee Surrendered
General Lee on His Horse, Traveller
Cotton-Field in Blossom
A Wheat-Field
Grain-Elevators at Buffalo
Cattle on the Western Plains
Iron Smelters
Iron Ore Ready for Shipment

MAPS

Boston and Vicinity
The War in the Middle States
The War in the South
Early Settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee
George Rogers Clark in the Northwest
The United States in 1803, after the Louisiana Purchase (Colored)
Jackson's Campaign
Scene of Houston's Campaign
Fremont's Western Explorations
Map of the United States Showing First and Second Secession
Areas (Colored)
Route of Sherman's March to the Sea
The Country Around Washington and Richmond

STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY

CHAPTER I

PATRICK HENRY

The Last French War had cost England so much that at its close she was
heavily in debt.

"As England must now send to America a standing army of at least ten
thousand men to protect the colonies against the Indians and other
enemies," the King, George III, reasoned, "it is only fair that the
colonists should pay a part of the cost of supporting it."

The English Parliament, being largely made up of the King's friends, was
quite ready to carry out his wishes, and passed a law taxing the
colonists. This law was called the Stamp Act. It provided that
stamps--very much like our postage-stamps, but costing all the way from
one cent to fifty dollars each--should be put upon all the newspapers and
almanacs used by the colonies, and upon all such legal papers as wills,
deeds, and the notes which men give promising to pay back borrowed money.

[Illustration: George III.]

When news of this act reached the colonists they were angry. "It is
unjust," they said. "Parliament is trying to make slaves of us by forcing
us to pay money without our consent. The charters which the English King
granted to our forefathers when they came to America make us free men just
as much as if we were living in England.

"In England it is the law that no free man shall pay taxes unless they are
levied by his representatives i