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book cover: The Blue and the Gray by Oliver Optic: Stand by the Union

The Blue and the Gray—Afloat

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TAKEN BY THE ENEMY
WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES
ON THE BLOCKADE
STAND BY THE UNION
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT
A VICTORIOUS UNION

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BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER
IN THE SADDLE
A LIEUTENANT AT EIGHTEEN
ON THE STAFF
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title page: The Blue and the Gray Series / by Oliver Optic / Stand by the Union

The Blue and the Gray Series


STAND BY THE UNION

BY

OLIVER OPTIC

AUTHOR OF "THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES" "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD" "THE
GREAT WESTERN SERIES" "THE WOODVILLE STORIES" "THE STARRY FLAG
SERIES" "THE BOAT-CLUB SERIES" "THE ONWARD AND UPWARD
SERIES" "THE YACHT-CLUB SERIES" "THE LAKE SHORE SERIES"
"THE RIVERDALE STORIES" "THE BOAT-BUILDER SERIES"
"TAKEN BY THE ENEMY" "WITHIN THE ENEMY'S
LINES" "ON THE BLOCKADE" ETC.

BOSTON 1896
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET NEXT "THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE."
Copyright, 1891, by Lee andShepard.

All rights reserved.
STAND BY THE UNION.
TO
MY TWO YOUNG FRIENDS,
Miss Helen Campbell Smith
AND
Miss Anna Rockwell Smith,
THE DAUGHTERS OF
MY FRIEND MR. GEORGE A. SMITH
OF BOSTON,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

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PREFACE

"Stand by the Union" is the fourthof "The Blue and Gray Series." As in the preceding volumes of theseries, the incidents of the story are located in the midst of the warof the Rebellion, now dating back nearly thirty years, or before any ofmy younger readers were born. To those who lived two days in one throughthat eventful and anxious period, sometimes trembling for the fate ofthe nation, but always sustained by the faith and the hope through whichthe final victory was won, it seems hardly possi

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