al Beauregard's staff. These, with General
Grant's article, are among the most notable contributions ever made to
magazine literature. The illustrations are more than twenty-five in
number.

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FURTHER PAPERS BY GENERAL GRANT.

In his second paper General Grant will cover an entire year of his
service in the war, including the different campaigns against Vicksburg,
and its capitulation. In his third paper he will deal with the battle of
Chattanooga, including the strategy of the campaign from the time of his
assumption of the command. A fourth paper, on the Wilderness campaign,
will follow.

While largely engaged with the main features of the campaigns described,
General Grant has not failed to take note of significant and
characteristic details. These papers will be illustrated with the same
regard for thoroughness and accuracy which has characterized the
illustrations of the articles in the war series already published.

THE "MONITOR" AND "MERRIMAC," IN THE MARCH CENTURY.

[Illustration]

The story of this famous fight is described in the March CENTURY by Col.
John Taylor Wood, fourth officer of the "Merrimac" in the second day's
fight, and now the senior surviving officer. Col. Wood was afterward
commander of the privateer "Tallahassee." The Federal side of the battle
is told by Commander S.D. Greene, U.S.N. (whose death has just
occurred), who was the executive officer of the "Monitor," and operated
the guns within the turret. General R.E. Colston, commander of the
Confederate forces opposite Newport News, contributes an eyewitness's
account of the same battle, describing, also, the "Merrimac's"
engagement with the Federal fleet before the arrival of the "Monitor."
A paper will soon appear on "THE MONITOR," BY CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON,
making record of the circumstances attending the invention of that
famous craft, and treating also of the engagement at Hampton Roads.
Readers of the articles in the March number will be especially
interested in the inventor's story.

In the April CENTURY will be printed two important papers on THE CAPTURE
OF NEW ORLEANS, BY ADMIRAL PORTER AND GEORGE W. CABLE.

Admiral Porter, with whom, as he relates, the expedition against New
Orleans originated, and who was in command of the mortar-fleet during
the action, describes the Federal side of "The Opening of the Lower
Mississippi"; while George W. Cable, the