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MEMOIRS
OF
HENRY VILLARD
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME I
MEMOIRS
OF
HENRY VILLARD
Journalist and Financier
1835–1900
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I, 1835–1862
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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1904
COPYRIGHT 1904
BY FANNY GARRISON VILLARD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published March 1904
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume I | |
INTRODUCTION (1835-1853) | PAGE 1 |
BOOK I.—FIRST EXPERIENCES IN AMERICA | |
CHAPTER I.—New York and Westward Ho (1853-1854) | 11 |
CHAPTER II.—With Kinsfolk in Illinois (1854-1855) | 28 |
CHAPTER III.—Legal Experiments (1855-1856) | 36 |
CHAPTER IV.—Through Politics to Journalism (1856-1857) | 48 |
CHAPTER V.—Correspondent and School-Teacher (1857-1858) | 68 |
BOOK II.—IN CIVIL-WAR TIME: BULL RUN | |
CHAPTER VI.—The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) | 89 |
CHAPTER VII.—The Pike's Peak Gold Fever (1858-1859) | 98 |
CHAPTER VIII.—At Cherry Creek (1859) | 115 |
CHAPTER IX.—From the Rockies to the Middle West (1859-1860) | 127 |
CHAPTER X.—With Lincoln at Springfield (1860-1861) | 140 |
CHAPTER XI.—At Washington in Sumter Days (1861) | 153 |
CHAPTER XII.—Formation of the Federal Army (1861) | 176 |
CHAPTER XIII.—Blackburn's Ford and Bull Run (1861) | 183 |
BOOK III.—IN CIVIL-WAR TIME: SHILOH | |
CHAPTER XIV.—Kentucky in the Summer and Fall of 1861 | 203 |
CHAPTER XV.—The Occupation of Nashville (1862) | 218 |
CHAPTER XVI.—The Battle of Shiloh (1862) | 235 |
CHAPTER XVII.—The Siege of Corinth (1862) | 263 |
CHAPTER XVIII.—Buell's Retreat to the Ohio (1862) | 282 |
CHAPTER XIX.—The Perryville Campaign (1862) | 306 |
BOOK IV.—IN CIVIL-WAR TIME: FREDERICKSBURG | |
CHAPTER XX.—In Washington Once More (1862) | 335 |
CHAPTER XXI.—With Burnside before Fredericksburg (1862) | 344 |
CHAPTER XXII.—The Battle of Fredericksburg (1862) | 353 |
CHAPTER XXIII.—Carrying the News to Washington (1862) | 385 |
ILLUSTRATIONS | |
Henry Villard, aged 51 | Frontispiece |
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Henry Villard, aged about 13 | to face page 6 |
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MAPS | |
The Rheinpfalz (Palatinate) | to face page 1 |
First Battle of Bull Run | to face page 183 |
Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh | to face page 235 |
Perryville | to face page 311 |
Fredericksburg | to face page 353 |