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Title: A Little Traitor to the South
A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude

Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady

Illustrator: A. D. Rahn
C. E. Hooper

Release Date: June 5, 2007 [EBook #21681]

Language: English

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_MACMILLAN'S STANDARD LIBRARY_

[Illustration: "Miss Fanny Glen detested a masterful man."]

A Little Traitor to the South

A WAR-TIME COMEDY

With a

TRAGIC INTERLUDE

By

Cyrus Townsend Brady

The Illustrations are by A. D. Rahn
Decorations by C. E. Hooper.

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1903,
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.

Copyright, 1904,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1904. Reprinted
August, 1904; March, September, 1907; April, 1908; April, 1909.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

_To "Patty"_

_Most Faithful and Efficient of Coadjutors_

PREFACE

"The tragic interlude" in this little war-time comedy of the affections
really happened as I have described it. The men who went to their death
beside the _Housatonic_ in Charleston harbor were Lieutenant George F.
Dixon of the Twenty-first Alabama Infantry, in command; Captain J. F.
Carlson of Wagoner's Battery; and Seamen Becker, Simpkins, Wicks,
Collins, and Ridgway of the Confederate Navy, all volunteers. These
names should be written in letters of gold on the roll of heroes. No
more gallant exploit was ever performed. The qualities and characteristics
of that death trap, the _David_, were well known to everybody. The
history of former attempts to work her is accurately set down in the
text of the story. Dixon and his men should be remembered with Decatur,
Cushing, Nields, and Hobson.

The torpedo boat was found aft