Nearing eighty and losing his sight, the historian James Kendall Hosmer sets down the people and events he had witnessed: statesmen of the Civil War era, soldiers he met, Horace Mann and Antioch College, and his student days in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War. He closes with portraits of the American, English and German historians he knew.
A genial old scholar’s memoir, full of first-hand glimpses of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.