December 1864

Articles

• Leaves From an Officer's Journal

  A white Civil War officer recounts his experience as Colonel of the first black regiment

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• The Vanishers

  A poem

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• On Translating the Divina Commedia (Part I)

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Highland Light

  “The inhabitants bear the crash of vessels going to pieces as they sit round their hearths, and they commonly date from some memorable shipwreck.”

  Henry David Thoreau

• English Authors in Florence

  K. Field

• A Tobacconalian Ode

• Halcyon Days

  Caroline Chesebro

• House and Home Papers: Xi

  Christopher Crowfield

• On the Columbia River

  Fitz-Hugh Ludlow

• Our Last Day in Dixie

  Edmund Kirke

• Ice and Esquimaux

  D.A. Wasson

• The Process of Sculpture

  Harriet Hosmer

• Bryant's Seventieth Birthday

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• England and America

  Goldwin Smith

• We Are a Nation

  John Trowbridge

• Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical

• Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities

• Freedom of Mind in Willing

• Military Bridges: With Suggestions of New Expedients and Constructions for Crossing Streams and Chasms

• Meditations on the Essence of Christianity, and on the Religious Questions of the Day

• History of the Anti-Slavery Measures of the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth United States Congress, 1861-64

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