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Lee and Shepard Publishers Boston
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