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EGGLESTON, EDWARD: 1837-1902.

"Edward Eggleston (Dec. 10, 1837-Sept. 2, 1902), novelist, historian, was born at Vevay, Ind. His father, Joseph Cary Eggleston, lawyer and politician, was a graduate of the College of William and Mary and belonged to a family of some importance in Virginia from colonial times; his mother, Mary Jane Craig, was the daughter of Capt. George Craig, Western frontiersman and Indian fighter. Before his father's death, in 1846, the family spent much time at the Craig farm, several miles from Vevay, so that the future author of The Hoosier Schoolmaster early attended a country school. Some three years in Vevay followed, and then young Eggleston was sent for a long visit in Decatur County, where he enriched his knowledge of uncouth Hoosier dialect and backwoods manners. Meantime, on Dec. 25, 1850, his mother had married Williamson Terrell, a Methodist preacher, and Eggleston returned home in March 1851, not to Vevay, but to New Albany. There the family remained a half year, then spent some two years at Madison, then returned to Vevay, in 1853. Here Eggleston liked the high school and flourished under the special favor of the locally famed Mrs. Julia Dumont, who pleased him with the assurance that he was destined to be an author. In June 1854, he was off for thirteen months in Virginia, spent partly with relatives and partly at the Amelia Academy where his accidental discovery of The Sketch Book began the slow process of liberation from his almost fanatical devotion to a narrow religious creed (FORUM, August 1887). Meantime his growing hatred of slavery caused him to refuse the offer of a course at the University of Virginia; indeed, ill health prevented his attending any college, and his formal schooling was now at an end.

"After his return to Indiana he was employed for some time as a Bible agent; but his health, always precarious, was soon completely broken. Fearing death from consumption, he set out westward, but suddenly changed his course for Minnesota, where during the summer of 1856 he restored his health by vigorous labor in the open air; then, after an abortive attempt to reach Kansas and aid the anti-slavery cause, he returned home. Some six months (November 1856-April 1857) on a Methodist circuit in southeastern Indiana wrought, however, new disaster to his health, and he was back in Minnesota the following spring, this time for nine years: he was Bible agent (1858-59); he was pastor of small churches at Traverse and St. Peter (1857-58), St. Paul (1859-60 and 1862-63), Stillwater (1860-61), and Winona (1864-66); and he tried a variety of other occupations, always frequently interrupted by ill health (Forty-third Annual Report of the American Bible Society, 1859; Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1857-66; and Eggleston Papers). Early in 1866 he gave up the ministry for journalism and removed to Evanston, Ill. He was associate editor … June 1866-February 1867 … of the LITTLE CORPORAL of Chicago. In February 1867, he became editor of the SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, soon renamed the NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER; and even after he had left the West he continued as its corresponding editor, until December, 1873. Meantime, as early as 1868, he was announced as 'a contributor to all the leading juvenile periodicals in the United States' (SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, vol. III, no. 12); and Mr. Blake's Walking-Stick (1870) was the first of several small volumes of fantastic fairy lore or moral tales of too sentimental children.

"Migrating eastward, Eggleston began in May 1870 a period of about fourteen or fifteen months on the INDEPENDENT (New York), of which he had for some time been Western correspondent (INDEPENDENT, May 12, 19, 1870; and SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, September 1873). His editorial connection from August 1871, with the then moribund HEARTH AND HOME … seems to have lasted only a year, but served both to revive the magazine and to start Eggleston on his career as a popular novelist destined to have an important influence in turning American literature toward realism. His first novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster (HEARTH AND HOME, Sept. 30-Dec. 30, 1871), was already marked by the sentimental quality as well as by the realism of his later writings… The Ohio River country is the setting of The End of the World (HEARTH AND HOME, Apr. 20-Sept. 7, 1872), a story of religious fanaticism and racial prejudice. In The Mystery of Metropolisville (HEARTH AND HOME, Dec. 7, 1872-Apr. 26, 1873) he turned to the Minnesota frontier and made, apparently, some use of Dickens's method in his humorous character portrayals. The Circuit Rider (CHRISTIAN UNION, Nov. 12, 1873-Mar. 18, 1874), with its setting in southern Ohio at the beginning of Madison's administration, pictures the devoted members of a religious fraternity of which Eggleston himself was once a member. Of the later novels, Roxy (SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, November 1877-October 1878) dealt with unusual frankness, for the period, with the problem of marital infidelity against a background of old Vevay life; The Hoosier Schoolboy (ST. NICHOLAS, December 1881-April 1882) preached a sentimental sermon against the harshness of rural schools … "Eggleston's religious enthusiasm, long since waning, finally spent itself entirely during his pastorate (1874-79) of the non-sectarian Church of Christian Endeavor, in Brooklyn (NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Dec. 27, 1877; NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 27, 1879). At the same time with the end of his religious zeal came also the change of his main literary interest from fiction to history. He had, indeed, early come to look upon the novel as a means of making 'a contribution to the history of civilization in America' …

"From 1870 until his first voyage to Europe, late in 1879, Eggleston's home was in Brooklyn; from 188: until his death he lived at Joshua's Rock, on Lake George, but usually spent his winters in New York or other cities and delivered many lectures. His first wife, Lizzie Snider, whom he had married at St. Peter, Minn.Mar. 18, 1858, died in 1889 (Eggleston Papers), and on Sept. 14, 1891, he married Frances Goode, of Madison, Ind. (NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 15, 1891). His last years, like his earlier life, were troubled with serious illness. Some three years before his death he suffered a stroke of apoplexy from which he never really recovered. Another stroke in August 1902 was followed by his death on Sept. 2 of that year."

Condensed from R. L. R., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VI.

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Publication Year:

1907

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Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1907.

Bookmark:

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Brant
and Red Jacket

ELIZABETH (EGGLESTON) SEELYE

Author of "Lake George in History"

Assisted by EDWARD EGGLESTON

CHICAGO: M. A. DONOHUE & Co.

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE ix
CHAPTER I. The People of the Long House 11
CHAPTER II. Champlain and the Five Nations 22
CHAPTER III. A Battle in the Woods 32
CHAPTER IV. Champlain Attacks a Seneca Town 37
CHAPTER V. An Indian's Revenge 48
CHAPTER VI. A Prisoner among the Five Nations 51
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CHAPTER VII. A Mohawk Peace 66
CHAPTER VIII. The Ruin of a Nation 74
CHAPTER IX. Canada in Danger 87
CHAPTER X. In the Lion's Jaws 93
CHAPTER XI. What Seventeen Young Men Did 106
CHAPTER XII. The Conquerors 114
CHAPTER XIII. How a Girl Defended a Fort 117
CHAPTER XIV. Brant's Patron 128
CHAPTER XV. An Indian War Council 137
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CHAPTER XVI. Brant's First Battle 142
CHAPTER XVII. The Six Nations in Brant's Boyhood 150
CHAPTER XVIII. Brant at the Battle of Niagara 159
CHAPTER XIX. Brant's School Days 164
CHAPTER XX. Sir William Johnson and the Pontiac War 167
CHAPTER XXI. Brant in Time of Peace 176
CHAPTER XXII. The Storm Brewing 182
CHAPTER XXIII. Brant, the War Chief 191
CHAPTER XXIV. The Battle of The Cedars 197
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CHAPTER XXV. Wooden Guns and False Dispatches 202
CHAPTER XXVI. Attempt to Kill Brant 206
CHAPTER XXVII The Forerunners of a Siege 211
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Siege of Fort Stanwix 218
CHAPTER XXIX. The Battle of Oriskany 222
CHAPTER XXX. How a Simpleton Raised the Siege 231
CHAPTER XXXI. War on the Border 244
CHAPTER XXXII. The Massacre of Cherry Valley 252
CHAPTER XXXIII. Brant's Battle on the Delaware 261
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CHAPTER XXXIV. Red Jacket 266
CHAPTER XXXV. The Invasion 270
CHAPTER XXXVI. Brant Gives Battle to General Sullivan 276
CHAPTER XXXVII. Brant and his Captives 286
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Retaliation 295
CHAPTER XXXIX. Brant's Second Visit to England 308
CHAPTER XL. Red Jacket, the Orator 318
CHAPTER XLI. Red Jacket Tried for Witchcraft 333
CHAPTER XLII. An Indian Game of Ball 340
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CHAPTER XLIII. Red Jacket's Plot against Brant—Brant's Death 344
CHAPTER XLIV The Battle of Chippewa 352
CHAPTER XLV. Anecdotes of Red Jacket 359

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PREFACE.

IN this book we have endeavored to keep in view the main purpose of the series—to make the history of our country interesting to the general reader, and especially to young people. We have consequently treated with fulness those passages in the history of the Iroquois, and in the lives of Brant and Red Jacket, that had to do with personal adventure.

We have not thought it necessary to encumber the pages of a book intended for popular use with references to authorities.

We are of course very largely indebted to the voluminous and painstaking works of Colonel William L. Stone, the "Life of Brant," in two octavo volumes, and the "Life of Red Jacket." These works, compiled from original documents, are of the highest authority and value, but their very fulness of information and quotation renders them more useful to the historical student than to the general reader. We are also greatly indebted to "The Campaign of Lieut.-Gen. John Burgoyne," by William L. Stone, Esq., the younger, and "The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson," page: x[View Page x]Switch to Image Mode CLOSE Page x Page x by the same author. The younger Mr. Stone has ably and diligently worked the historic lead opened by his father, so that the careers of the two writers seem to be but one. "The History of the Five Indian Nations," by Cadwallader Colden (1727); "The Annals of Tryon County," by William W. Campbell; "The League of the Iroquois," by Lewis H. Morgan; "History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River," by E. M. Ruttenber; "The Life of Capt. Joseph Brant" (Brantford, Ontario, 1872); Cusick's "Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations;" Drake's "Indian Biography;" Bancroft's "History of the United States;" "Letters and Memoirs of Madame de Riedesel," with others of less importance, have been laid under contribution in the writing of this book. Mr. Schoolcraft's "Notes on the Iroquois" we have examined carefully, but it has furnished little of value.

Especial mention should be made of the eloquent histories of Mr. Francis Parkman, to which we are almost wholly indebted for the account of the early wars of the Iroquois, and all that part of the narrative which touches on the relations of the French and Indians. The reader who wishes to pursue the study of the early history of America with delight cannot do better than to follow Mr. Parkman's lead.

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