THIRD PERIOD... 1800-1850. THOMAS HART BENTON, 1782-1858. The Duel between Randolph and Clay, 1826. JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, 1782-1850. System of Our Government Defence of Nullification. The Wise Choice.. Official Patronage. NATHANIEL BEVERLEY TUCKER, 1784-1851 The Partisan Leader. RICHARD HENRY WILDE, 1789-1847 . My Life is Like the Summer Rose. DAVID CROCKETT, 1786-1836.. Spelling and Grammar: Prologue to his Autobiography Motto: Be sure you are right.. AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET, 1790-1870 Ned Brace at Church. A Sage Conversation. JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY, 1795-1870. A Country Gentleman in Virginia How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men. CHARLES ÉTIENNE Arthur GayARRÉ, 1805-1895. Louisiana in 1750-1770.. The Tree of the Dead. MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, 1806-1873. The Gulf Stream . Deep-Sea Soundings.. Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS, 1798–1866.. The First Indian Baptism in America . Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America. . 226 WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, 1806-1870. ROBERT EDWARD LEE, 1807-1870. PAGE 219 . 221 223 228 228 231 JEFFERSON DAVIS, 1808-1889 Trip to Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to Gen- eral Jackson.. HENRY TIMROD, 1829-1867 . Sonnet-Life Ever Seems Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery |