This volume was published in 1900 and is a series of short sketches of statesmen, military captains, orators, jurists, preachers, men of literature, etc.

George Washington
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Lee
James Monroe
John Marshall
James Madison
John Sevier
Andrew Jackson
Peter Cartwright
John Pendleton Kennedy
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
John Randolph
Robert Y. Hayne
Thomas H. Benton
Sam Houston
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
George F. Pierce
John Bell
John B. McFerrin
James K. Polk
Roger B Taney
Zachary Taylor
David Crockett
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
Enoch M. Marvin
William E. Munsey
Alexander H. Stephens
Paul H. Hayne
Henry Timrod
Augusta Evans Wilson
Andrew Johnson
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Henry Watterson
George W. Cable
Holland N. McTyeire
Sidney Lanier
Mary Murpree
Joel Chandler Harris
James Lane Allen

From the book's Introductory:

The most enlarging of all studies is the study of human history, and all history is at bottom only biography. It was with this view that the editor of the Children' s Visitor, in which the following sketches first appeared, arranged for their preparation.

Mr. Will T. Hale, who has acquired a national reputation for both his prose and poetic writings, was chosen to do the work on account of his genius for historic treatment, combined with a broad and generous spirit, which was a guaranty against any offensive sectionalism.

It was deemed wise to establish such a series as that which bears the title "Great Southerners" for the purpose of more accurately informing our children and young people touching those men who in various life works have reflected credit upon the land which gave them birth.



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