Memory Union & Empire

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915) was the grandson of President John Quincy Adams and brother to the historians Henry Adams and Brooks Adams. Although born to privilege and wealth, he volunteered for service in 1861 and ended the war as a Colonel. Afterwards, he found success as the CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad and a significant American historian.Here are collected, for the first time, essays and lectures by Charles Francis Adams, Jr. on the Civil War, war-related historiography, and his reservations about the American embrace of empire in 1898. Works in this collection include:Lee at AppomattoxThe Constitutional Ethics of Secession’Tis Sixty Years HenceLee’s Centennial'War is Hell'Lincoln’s Offer to GaribaldiSome Phases of the Civil WarAn Undeveloped Function'The Solid South' and the Afro-American Race Problem'Shall Cromwell Have a Statue?'The Confederacy and the Transvaal: A People’s Obligation to Robert E. LeeThe Monroe Doctrine and Mommsen’s LawThe Civil War Pension Lack-of-SystemThe Crisis of Foreign Intervention in the War of SecessionWhat Mr. Cleveland Stands ForMr. Cleveland’s Task'Imperialism' & 'The Tracks of Our Forefathers'The Panama Canal Zone: An Epochal Event in SanitationThe Trent AffairA National Change of HeartA Plea for Military HistoryThe Sifted Grain and the Grain SiftersReflex Light From AfricaThe Lessons of the Butler CanvassReform in City GovernmentTo the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Regarding the PhilippinesThe Doctrine of Equality and the Race Problem