July 1864

Articles

• The May Campaign in Virginia

  "An outline of the operations of the Army of the Potomac in its march from its encampment on the Rapidan, through the tangled thickets of the Wilderness, to the bloody fields of Spottsylvania, across the North Anna, to the old battle-ground of Cold Harbor."

  Charles Carleton Coffin

• A Scene from The Dolliver Romance

  The opening section of an unfinished novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Hawthorne

  “It was my fortune to be among the last of the friends who looked upon Hawthorne's living face”

  O.W. Holmes

• Saadi

  “In a country where there are no libraries and no printing, people must carry wisdom in sentences.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Palingenesis

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Wife's Story

• Currency

  George S. Lang

• In Memory of J. W.--R. W

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Meyerbeer

  Francis Williams

• The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-64

• The Iliad of Homer Faithfully Translated Into Unrhymed English Metre

• On Translating Homer/Last Words

• Glorying in the Goad

  Gail Hamilton

• The Return of the Birds

  William Cullen Bryant

• Wet-Weather Work: Vii

  Donald G. Mitchell

• Mexico

  G. Reynolds

• The Rim: Part Iii.--Conclusion

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott

• Watching

• On Horseback Into Oregon

  Fitz-Hugh Ludlow

• Ice-Period in America

  Louis Agassiz

• House and Home Papers: Vii

  Christopher Crowfield

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