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Title: Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First
Being the First Book
Author: Sarah L Barrow
Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29593]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "COLONEL TAKE YOUR COLORS!"]
THE SOCK STORIES,
BY "AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER.
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE
SOCKS.
Part First.
BEING
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE SERIES.
BY
"AUNT FANNY'S" DAUGHTER,
THE AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE WHITE ANGEL."
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER,
BY "AUNT FANNY" HERSELF.
NEW YORK:
LEAVITT & ALLEN, 21 & 23 MERCER ST.
1863.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
S. L. BARROW,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.
JOHN F. TROW,
Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper,
60 Greene Street, New York.
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION--THE STORY OF THE SOCKS, 7
COLONEL FREDDY; OR, THE MARCH AND
ENCAMPMENT OF THE DASHAHED ZOUAVES,
CHAP. I.--RAISING A REGIMENT, 35
II.--"MARCHING ALONG," 55
III.--CAMP LIFE, 76
DEDICATION.
MY DEAR LITTLE COOLEY AND GEORGIE:
WHEN you see that this book is dedicated to you, I hope your bright eyes
will sparkle with pleasure; but I am afraid your pretty curly heads will
hardly retain a recollection of a little personage who once lived close
to your beautiful home on Staten Island. She remembers _you_, however,
and sends you this soldier story with her very best love--the love she
bears in her inmost heart for God and little children. And now she asks
you to hunt in every corner of those same precious little heads for a
kindly remembranc
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