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Title: The Story of Old Fort Loudon

Author: Charles Egbert Craddock

Illustrator: Ernest C. Peixotto

Release Date: March 28, 2010 [EBook #31801]

Language: English

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THE STORY OF
OLD FORT LOUDON

[Illustration: "The officers expressed their earnest remonstrances."
(See page 198.)]

The Story

of

Old Fort Loudon

By

Charles Egbert Craddock

Author of "In the Tennessee Mountains," "The Prophet of the
Great Smoky Mountains," etc., etc.

With Illustrations by Ernest C. Peixotto

New York
The Macmillan Company

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

1899

_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1898,
By The Macmillan Company.

_Norwood Press_

_J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._

Illustrations

"The officers expressed their earnest remonstrances" (see
page 198) _Frontispiece_

Facing page

"What more wonderful? What more fearful?" 16

"The canoe rocked in the swirls" 54

"And oh, the moment of housewifely pride!" 128

"Plunging through the gate and half across the parade ground" 240

Belinda and the Ensign on the moonlit rampart 252

"The men had been hastily formed into a square" 346

"He stared forward blankly at the inevitable prospect" 376

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