August 1865

Articles

• My Second Capture

  “Here was an indignity, indeed. My soul revolted at the thought of a journey southward, and all my instincts warned me against so dire an undertaking. I stood before the Rebel with my determination in my eye.”

  W. W. Wiltbank

• Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage

  “Having converted the loyal blacks from slaves into the condition of citizens of the United States, there can be no reason or justice or policy in allowing them to be made, in localities recently Rebel, the subjects of whites who have but just purged themselves from the guilt of treason.”

  E. P. Whipple

• Among the Honey-Makers

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott

• Countess Laura

  George H. Boker

• Strategy at the Fireside

• Around Mull: Part Ii

  Maria S. Cummins

• John Bright and the English Radicals

  G. W. Towle

• Needle and Garden: The Story of a Seamstress Who Laid Down Her Needle and Became a Strawberry-Girl

• The Willow

  Elizabeth A. C. Akers

• Doctor Johns

  Donald G. Mitchell

• Letter to a Silent Friend

• The Chimney-Corner: Viii. The Noble Army of Martyrs

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Peace

  Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney

• Life of Horace Mann

• The Gentle Life

• Essays in Criticism

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