Memoirs of Henry Villard/Volume 1
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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
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 |