Excerpt from Ballads of Valor and Victory: Being Stories in Song From the Annals of America 7 j a. Copyright, 1897, 1898, 900, BY the perry mason company copyright, 1 1898, 1900, BY the judge company copyright, 189 BY the crowell publishing company copyright, 1898, BY herbert s. Stone a company copyright, 1898, BY way williams copyright, 1898, BY wallace rice copyright. 1898, BY the george M. Hill company copyright, 1898, 1899, BY harper a brothers copyright, 1898, 1899, BY the chicago post company copyright, 1899, BY P. F. Collier a: son copyright, 1899. 1900, BY the curtis publishing company copyright, 1899, 1900, BY the criterion publishing company copyright. 1899, 1900, BY the chaiitauqua press copyright, 1900, BY edmond clarence stedman copyright, 1900, BY silver, burdett a company copyright, 1902, BY charles scribner's sons copyright, 1902, BY dodd, mead company copyright, 1903, BY the independent copyright, 1903, BY the fleming H. Revell company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.