ALONZO KIMBALL

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E.C.S.C.

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

I Carrolton Gardens

II Carriage Company

III The General's Choice

IV Manoeuvres

V Hilary?--Yes, Uncle?

VI Messrs. Smellemout and Kethem

VII By Starlight

VIII One Killed

IX Her Harpoon Strikes

X Sylvia Sighs

XI In Column of Platoons

XII Mandeville Bleeds

XIII Things Anna Could Not Write

XIV Flora Taps Grandma's Cheek

XV The Long Month of March

XVI ConstanceTries to Help

XVII"Oh, Connie, Dear--Nothing--Go On"

XVIII Flora Tells the Truth!

XIX Flora Romances

XX The Fight for the Standard

XXI Constance Cross-Examines

XXII Same Story Slightly Warped

XXIII"Soldiers!"

XXIV A Parked Battery Can Raise a Dust

XXV"He Must Wait,"Says Anna

XXVI Swift Going, Down Stream

XXVII Hard Going, Up Stream

XXVIII The Cup of Tantalus

XXIX A Castaway Rose

XXX Good-by, Kincaid's Battery

XXXI Virginia Girls and Louisiana Boys

XXXII Manassas

XXXIII Letters

XXXIV A Free-Gift Bazaar

XXXV The"Sisters of Kincaid's Battery"

XXXVI Thunder-Cloud and Sunburst

XXXVII"Till He Said,'I'm Come Hame, My Love'"

XXXVIII Anna's Old Jewels

XXXIX Tight Pinch

XL The License, The Dagger

XLI For an Emergency

XLII"Victory! I Heard it as PI'--"

XLIII That Sabbath at Shiloh

XLIV"They We re all Four Together"

XLV Steve--Maxime--Charlie--

XLVI The School of Suspense

XLVII From the Burial Squad

XLVIII Farragut

XLIX A City in Terror

L Anna Amazes Her self

LI The Callender Horses Enlist

LII Here They Come

LIII Ships, Shells, and Letters

LIV Same April Day Twice

LV In Darkest Dixie and Out

LVI Between the Millstones

LVII Gates of Hell and Glory

LVIII Arachne

LIX In a Labyrinth

LX Hilary's Ghost

LXI The Flag-of-Truce Boat

LXII Farewell, Jane!

LXIII The Iron-clad Oath

LXIV"Now, Mr. Brick-Mason--"

LXV Flora's Last Throw

LXVI"When I Hands in My Checks"

LXVII Mobile

LXVIII By the Dawn's Early Light

LXIX Southern Cross and Northern Star

LXX Gains and Losses

LXXI Soldiers of Peace

OTHER BOOKS BY MR. CABLE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"If any one alive,"he cried,"knows any cause why this thing should not be"

Anna

"'Tis good-by, Kincaid's Battery"

And the next instant she was in his arms

"No! not under this roof--nor in sight of these things."

"You'ave no ri-ight to leave me! Ah, you shall not!"

She dropped into a seat, staring like one demented.

Kincaid's Battery