Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Contains thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the thirty years after the Civil War. They describe famous battles, and most are optimistic, patriotic pro-Union effusions which express the nineteenth century religion of patriotism, which identified America with the Promised Land. Some of these addresses may have been written as chapters for books. Certainly intended as part of a book is a notebook with rough retrospective notes on the second day of...