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Title: Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6)
Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures

Author: John McElroy

Release Date: March 25, 2010 [EBook #31773]

Language: English

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SI KLEGG

SI AND SHORTY MEET MR. ROSENBAUM, THE SPY, WHO RELATES HIS ADVENTURES

By John McElroy

BOOK No. 3

PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, WASHINGTON, D. C.

[Illustration: SI AND SHORTY AS MOUNTED INFANTRY]

(Chapter VIII.)

PUBLISHED BY

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE CO.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

SECOND EDITION

COPYRIGHT 1910

Contents:

PREFACE
CHAPTER I. OUT ON PICKET
CHAPTER II. ROSENBAUM, THE SPY
CHAPTER III. THE DEACON GOES HOME
CHAPTER IV. A SPY'S EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER V. THE BOYS GO SPYING
CHAPTER VI. LETTER FROM HOME
CHAPTER VII. CORN PONE AND BUTTERMILK
CHAPTER VIII. A PERIOD OF SELF-DISGUST
CHAPTER IX. SHORTY GETS A LETTER
CHAPTER X. TRADING WITH THE REBS
CHAPTER XI. SHORTY'S CORRESPONDENT
CHAPTER XII. THE BAN ON WET GOODS
CHAPTER XIII. THE JEW SPY WRITES
CHAPTER XIV. SHORTY HAS AN ADVENTURE WITH SI
CHAPTER XV. SHORTY NEARLY GOT MARRIED
CHAPTER XVI. AN UNEXPECTED MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVII. GATHERING INFORMATION
CHAPTER XVIII. THE JEW SPY AGAIN

PREFACE

"Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born years
ago in the brain of John McElroy, Editor of The National Tribune.

These sketches are the original ones published in The National Tribune,
revised and enlarged somewhat by the author. How true they are to nature
every veteran can abundantly testify from his own service. Really, only
the name of the regiment was invented. There is no doubt that there were
several men of the name of Josiah Klegg in the Union Army, and who did
valiant service for the Government. They had experiences akin to, if
not identical with, those narrated here, and substantially every man
who faithfully and bravely carried a musket in defens