Title An American procession, 1855-1914; a personal chronicle of famous men. / With reproductions of woodcuts from Frank Leslie's weekly.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PN4874.C8 A3 1968	Available	---

Description	viii, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Series	Essay index reprint series
	Essay index reprint series.
Note	Reprint of the 1931 ed.
Contents	A cub reporter in New York -- The approach of the civil war -- Washington in 61' -- Antislavery meetings -- Peggy O'Neill and General Jackson -- A correspondent at the front -- Poets and writers -- Abraham Lincoln, 1961-1864 -- The tribune -- Journalist at large -- New York traffic in 1879 -- Mark Twain -- Some ladies and an opera -- Schuyler Colfax -- Friendship with Thurlow Weed -- Thurlow Weed in Washington -- A bogus peer: Lord Gordon-Gordon -- Masculine society and the clubs -- In the public eye -- When millionaires confide -- P. T. Barnum at home -- Inventors -- A man of confidence: James Watson Webb -- Trials of a biographer and editor
Subject	Croffut, W. A. (William Augustus), 1835-1915.
	Croffut, W. A. (William Augustus), 1835-1915.
	Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
	Journalists.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.