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Title: Kincaid's Battery

Author: George W. Cable

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KINCAID'S BATTERY

BY

GEORGE W. CABLE

1908

ILLUSTRATED BY

ALONZO KIMBALL

[Illustration: "If anyone alive," he cried, "knows any cause why this
thing should not be."]

To

E.C.S.C.

CONTENTS

I. Carrollton Gardens
II. Carriage Company
III. The General's Choice
IV. Manoeuvres
V. Hilary?--Yes, Uncle?
VI. Messrs. Smellemout and Ketchem
VII. By Starlight
VIII. One Killed
IX. Her Harpoon Strikes
X. Sylvia Sighs
XI. In Column of Platoons
XII. Mandeville Bleeds
XIII. Things Anna Could Not Write
XIV. Flora Taps Grandma's Cheek
XV. The Long Month of March
XVI. Constance Tries to Help
XVII. "Oh, Connie, Dear--Nothing--Go On"
XVIII. Flora Tells the Truth!
XIX. Flora Romances
XX. The Fight for the Standard
XXI. Constance Cross-Examines
XXII. Same Story Slightly Warped
XXIII. "Soldiers!"
XXIV. A Parked Battery Can Raise a Dust
XXV. "He Must Wait," Says Anna
XXVI. Swift Going, Down Stream
XXVII. Hard Going, Up Stream
XXVIII. The Cup of Tantalus
XXIX. A Castaway Rose
XXX. Good-by, Kincaid's Battery
XXXI. Virginia Girls and Louisiana Boys
XXXII. Manassas
XXXIII. Letters
XXXIV. A Free-Gift Bazaar
XXXV. The "Sisters of Kincaid's Battery"
XXXVI. Thunder-Cloud and Sunburst
XXXVII. "Till He Said, 'I'm Come Hame, My Love'"
XXXVIII. Anna's Old Jewels
XXXIX. Tight Pinch