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Northern Magazine, which has given special 

 attention to historical sketches of Maine regi- 

 ments ; " The Sanitary Commission Bulletin," 

 and the Massachusetts Annual Register, which 

 has published histories of most of the Massa- 

 chusetts Regiments. The Bureau of Military 

 -tics of the State of New York is collect- 

 ing the histories of the regiments of the State, 

 ;in<l lias published two interesting reports con- 

 cerning them. 



A still larger class of works pertaining indi- 

 rectly to the history of the war, are those nar- 

 rations of personal adventure in connection 

 with it, on essays or topics directly involved in 

 it, and sketches, hardly historical, yet furnish- 

 ing some elements of history, of special expedi- 

 tions or campaigns, usually by newspaper corre- 

 spondents. The number of these is legion ; a 

 few only of the most important of them can be 

 mentioned. Among those first named are Free- 

 mantle's " Three Months in the Southern States," 

 a reprint ; Carleton's (0. 0. Coffin) "Folio wine: 

 the Flag;" "My Cave Life at Vicksburg;" 

 Rev. A. M. Stewart's " Carnp, March, and Battle- 

 Field;" Rev. A. H. Quint's "Potomac and 

 Rapidan ; " F. Colburn Adams' "Story of a 

 Trooper;" C. S.Bryant's "History of the Sioux 

 Massacre;" Lieut.-Col. F. F. Cavada's "Libby 

 Life ; " A. F. Hill's "Personal Experiences of 

 a Soldier in the Army of the Potomac; " E. S. 

 P. Rouse's "Bugle Blast," containing incidents 

 of the Conflict; " "The Burning of Chambers- 

 burg," by Rev. B. S. Schenck; "The Yankee 

 Conscript," by George A. Fisher ; and "Notes 

 of Hospital Life," by a Philadelphia lady. 

 Among the narrations not by eye-witnesses, are 

 " Poetical Pen Pictures of the War," collected 

 by J. H. Hayward; "Legends of the War," by 

 D. J. Weeks; Bradshaw's "Volunteer's Roll 

 of Honor ; " Prof. H. B. Hackett's " Christian 

 Memorials of the War ; " Mrs. Sallie Rochester 

 Ford's " Raids and Romances of Morgan and 

 his Men ; " " The Days of Sixty-Three ; " " Thrill- 

 ing Stories of the Great Rebellion," by a Dis- 

 abled Officer; "Rebel Barbarities at Fort 

 PDlow, Libby Prison," &c., two works, one by 

 the Government Committee on the Conduct of 

 the War, the other by the Sanitary Commis- 

 sion; Edmund Kirke's (J. R. Gillmore) ''Down 

 in Tennessee, and Back by Way of Richmond," 

 and Ledyard Bill's u Pen Pictures of the War." 



Of the essays, &c., the most important were : 

 Rev. G. S. Phillips's "American Republic and 

 Human Liberty;" Rev. W. D. Potts "Free- 

 men's Guide to the Polls ; " J. Watts De Peys 

 ters "Secession in Switzerland and the United 

 States Compared; " " Shots from the Monitor," 

 by Leo Grenard ; Vol. 2 of Count Gurowski's 

 "Diary;" J. Ferrer de Coute's "Enough of 

 War; the Slavery Question Conclusively and 

 Satisfactorily Settled ; " " Philanthropic Results 

 of the War," by an American Citizen ; Gen. 

 Juan Prim's account of " General McClellan 

 and the Army of the Potomac;" "Soldiers 

 and Soldiers' Homes," by Mrs. Phoebe Harris 

 Phelps ; C. C. S. Farrar's " The War : its Causes 



and its Consequences; " Secretary Welles' vol. 

 ume on "Armored Vessels; " Mrs. A. II. Lin- 

 coln Phelps' " Our Country and its Relations 

 to the Past, Present, and Future ; " " America 

 and her Commentators," by H. T. Tuckerman ; 

 Rev. R. L. Stanton's " The Church and the Re- 

 bellion;" Rev. C. B. Boynton's "English and 

 French Neutrality and the Anglo-French Al- 

 liance in their Relations to the United States and 

 to Russia; " " The Adder's Den," by John Smith 

 Dye ; " General McClellan's Oration at the Lay- 

 ing of the Cornerstone of the West Point 

 Monument ; " " The History of the Western 

 Sanitary Commission," by Rev. J. G. Forman ; 

 and " The General Orders of the War Depart- 

 ment from 1861 to 1863," compiled by O'Brien 

 and Diefendorf. 



The various sanitary fairs which took place 

 in our larger cities during the year added con- 

 siderably to our war literature, both directly and 

 indirectly. Numerous poems, essays, &c., were 

 contributed to or published to aid in increasing 

 the sales of the fairs ; but in addition to this, 

 each of the great fairs had a daily newspaper 

 published during its continuance, which was 

 largely occupied with narratives of incidents 

 connected with the war or the hospitals. Some 

 of these papers possessed a high degree of 

 merit. The paper of the Brooklyn Fair was 

 called the "Drumbeat; " that of the New York 

 Fair, "Spirit of the Fair;" the 'Philadelphia 

 Fair gave to their's the title of the " Haversack." 

 "Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors," 

 1 vol. 4to, published in Baltimore, Md., for the 

 benefit of the Sanitary Fair held in that city. 

 Memorial volumes, with portraits, views, &c., 

 have also been issued of each fair. 



Turning to the department of local and other 

 American histories not connected with the 

 present war, we find these very diverse in their 

 character ; some, like Mr. J. C. Hamilton's " His- 

 tory of the Republic, as Developed in the 

 Writings of Alexander Hamilton and his Con- 

 temporaries ; " Dr. Lieber's " Washington and 

 Napoleon; " Mr. G. H. Calvert's drama of 

 "Arnold and Andre,' and Wallace's " Oration 

 on the 200th Anniversary of the Birthday of 

 William Bradford, the First Printer of the Mid- 

 dle Colonies," or Gen. Henry Lee's " Champe's 

 Adventure," are almost biographical in their 

 character: others, like volume 3d of "Palfrey's 

 History of New England; " M. W. Montgomery's 

 " History of Gay County, Indiana ; " Mr. W. 

 W. Waldron's ""Huguenots of West Chester 

 and the Parish of Fordham ; " Abbott's vol. 

 vii. of his American Histories (The Revolution) ; 

 Mr. Fred. Freeman's " History of Cape Cod ; " 

 the Address, &c., at the Centennial Anniversary 

 of Machias, Me. ; Judge Daly's "History of the 

 Introduction of the Drama into America;" 

 Mr. Dwinelle's " Colonial History of San Fran- 

 cisco," and Hon. J. R. Bartlett's "Records of 

 the State of Rhode Island," are distinctively 

 local histories, generally prepared with great 

 care and research. A few are elaborate re- 

 prints on large paper of ole narratives of bat 



