Chapter I: Front Matter

VOL. I NO. 4
THE
MAGAZINE OF HISTORY
WITH
NOTES AND QUERIES

APRIL 1905

WILLIAM ABBATT
281 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

Published Monthly $5.00 a Year 50 Cents a Number

THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

VOL. I APRIL, 1905 NO. 4

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE LEXINGTON MINUTEMAN _Frontispiece_

PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY OF THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER (First Paper) WARREN UPHAM 195
(Sec’y Minn. Historical Society)

BETWEEN TWO FLAGS KATHERINE PRENCE 203

CIVIL WAR SKETCHES (First Paper) WALTER L.
Confederate Finance in Alabama FLEMING 214
(Prof. of History, West Va. University)

THE PATROL AT BARNEGAT (_Poem MS._) WALT WHITMAN 220

EARLY LEGISLATIVE TURMOILS IN NEW
JERSEY WILLIAM NELSON 221
(Sec’y N. J. Historical Society)

HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEM OF EDGAR
ALLAN POE 231

WHEN WASHINGTON CAME TO SPRINGFIELD REV. NEWTON M.
HALL 232

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD HERBERT W.
(Dr. Fisk’s Bill.) KIMBALL
(Registrar,
Mass. S. A. R.) 239

THE DEAD OF PATRIOTS’ DAY 244

THE MEMORIAL TREES AT WASHINGTON 245

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Letter from Benjamin Hawkins to
Governor Caswell 248
Letter from Silas Deane to Capt.
Joseph Hynson 251

MINOR TOPICS 252

GENEALOGY 253

_Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt_

THE FOUNTAIN AT LEXINGTON WITH STATUE OF THE MINUTE MAN.
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THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER