BEING A

Popular Descriptive Portraiture

OF

THE GREAT
GREAT EVENTS

OF OUR

PAST CENTURY.

Including also Delineations of all our Great Historic Characters in the most
Striking Phases of their Career.

BY R. M. DEVENS,

Assisted by our most eminent Authors, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Military
and other Officials.

Illustrated with over Three Hundred Engravings,

By the most gifted leaders of Picture Art in America.

PUBLISHED BY

C. A. NICHOLS & CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

A. W. MILLS, TECUMSEH, MICH.

1879.