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Brother against Brother
OR, THE WAR ON THE BORDER
The Blue and the Gray Army Series
BY OLIVER OPTIC
AUTHOR OF "THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES" "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD, FIRST ANDSECOND SERIES" "BOAT-CLUB STORIES" "THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES" "THEONWARD AND UPWARD SERIES" "THE WOODVILLE STORIES" "THE STARRY FLAGSERIES" "THE YACHT-CLUB SERIES" "THE LAKE SHORE SERIES" "THE RIVERDALESTORIES" "THE ALL-OVER-THE-WORLD LIBRARY" "THE BLUE AND THE GRAY NAVYSERIES" "THE BOAT-BUILDER SERIES" ETC.
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET
1894
Copyright, 1894, by Lee and Shepard
All Rights Reserved
Brother against Brother
Electrotyping by C. J. Peters & Son, Boston, U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co.
TO
My Son-in-Law
GEORGE W. WHITE, Esquire
ONE OF TWO WHO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME TO
ME AS REAL SONS
This Book
IS AFFECTIONATELY AND GRATEFULLY
DEDICATED
"The Overseer elevated his rifle."
PREFACE
"Brother Against Brother" is the first of "The Blue and the Gray ArmySeries," which will include six volumes, though the number is contingentupon the longevity of one, still hale and hearty, who has passed by acouple of years the Scriptural limit of "threescore years and ten"allotted to human life. In completing the first six books of "The Blueand the Gray Series," the author realized that the scenes and events ofall these stories related to life in the navy, which gallantly performedits full share in maintaining the integrity of the Union. The six booksof "The Army and Navy Series," begun in the heat of the struggle thirtyyears ago, were equally divided between the two arms of the service; andit has been suggested that the equilibrium should be continued in thelater volumes.
In the preface of "A Victorious Union," the consummation of the terriblestrife which the navy had reached in that volume, the author announcedhis intention to make a beginning of the books which are to form thearmy division of the series. Soon after he had returned from hissixteenth voyage across the Atlantic, he found himself in excellentcondition to resume the pleasurable occupation in which he has beenengaged for forty y