WAR SERIES. By HARRY CASTLEMON. 5 vols. 12mo. Cloth.
TRUE TO HIS COLORS. RODNEY THE PARTISAN.
RODNEY THE OVERSEER. MARCY THE BLOCKADE-RUNNER.
MARCY THE REFUGEE.

Other Volumes in Preparation.

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COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY PORTER & COATES.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ALL ABOUT THE FLAG, 5

II. THE STRANGE BANNER, 24

III. CHEERS FOR "THE STARS AND BARS," 44

IV. RODNEY'S THREAT, 65

V. THE PAID SPY, 88

VI. THE STRUGGLE ON THE TOWER, 113

VII. OLD TOBY'S MONEY, 138

VIII. BUD GOBLE'S WATERLOO, 163

IX. THE COMMITTEE AT WORK, 185

X. THE CALL TO ARMS, 206

XI. BUD'S MESSENGER IN TROUBLE, 231

XII. THE FIRST COMPANY IN ACTION, 252

XIII. HAULING DOWN THE COLORS, 277

XIV. MARCY CHANGES HIS CLOTHES, 302

XV. FORCED INTO THE SERVICE, 328

XVI. SECRET ENEMIES, 349

XVII. MARCY GRAY PRIVATEERSMAN, 372

XVIII. CONCLUSION, 397

TRUE TO HIS COLORS.

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CHAPTER I.

ALL ABOUT THE FLAG.

"Rodney Gray, I am ashamed of you; and if you were not my cousin, I
should be tempted to thrash you within an inch of your life."

"Never mind the relationship. After listening to the sentiments you have
been preaching in this academy for the last three months, I am more
ashamed of it than you can possibly be. You're a Yankee at heart, and a
traitor to your State. Let go those halliards!"

"I'll not do it. Look here, Rodney. Your ancestors and mine have fought
under this flag ever since it has been a flag, and, if I can help it,
you shall not be the first of our name to haul it down. Let go yourself,
and stand back, or I will throw you over the parapet."

"But that flag doesn't belong up there any longer, and I say, and we all
say, that it shall not stay. Here's our banner; and if there's a war
coming, as some of you seem to think, it will lead us to victory on
every battle-field."

An exciting scene was being enacted in and around the belfry of the
Barrington Mili