Kincaid's Battery
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Kincaid's Battery, by George W. Cable, Illustrated by Alonzo Kimball
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For the scene of this narrative please take into mind a wide quarter-circle of country, such as any of the pretty women we are to know in it might have covered on the map with her half-opened fan.
Let its northernmost corner be Vicksburg, the famous, on the Mississippi. Let the easternmost be Mobile, and let the most southerly and by far the most important, that pivotal corner of the fan from which all its folds radiate and where the whole pictured thing opens and shuts, be New Orleans. Then let the grave moment that gently ushers us in be a long-ago afternoon in the Louisiana Delta.
Throughout that land of water and sky the willow clumps dotting the bosom of every sea-marsh and fringing every rush-rimmed lake were yellow and green in the full flush of a new year, the war year, 'Sixty-one.
Though rife with warm sunlight, the moist air gave distance and poetic charm to the nearest and humblest things. At the edges of the great timbered swamps thickets of young winter-bare cypresses were budding yet more vividly than the willows, while in the depths of those overflowed forests, near and far down their lofty gray colonnades, the dwarfed swamp-maple drooped the winged fruit of its limp bush in pink and flame-yellow and rose-red masses until it touched its own image in the still flood.
George Washington Cable
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KINCAID'S BATTERY
GEORGE W. CABLE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
I
CARROLLTON GARDENS
II
CARRIAGE COMPANY
III
THE GENERAL'S CHOICE
IV
MANOEUVRES
V
HILARY?--YES, UNCLE?
VI
MESSRS. SMELLEMOUT AND KETCHEM
VII
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
XL
THE LICENSE, THE DAGGER
XLI
FOR AN EMERGENCY
XLII
"VICTORY! I HEARD IT AS PL'--"
XLIII
THAT SABBATH AT SHILOH
XLIV
"THEY WERE ALL FOUR TOGETHER"
XLV
STEVE--MAXIME--CHARLIE--
XLVI
THE SCHOOL OF SUSPENSE
XLVII
FROM THE BURIAL SQUAD
XLVIII
FARRAGUT
XLIX
A CITY IN TERROR
L
ANNA AMAZES HERSELF
LI
THE CALLENDER HORSES ENLIST
LII
HERE THEY COME!
LIII
SHIPS, SHELLS, AND LETTERS
LIV
SAME APRIL DAY TWICE
LV
IN DARKEST DIXIE AND OUT
LVI
BETWEEN THE MILLSTONES
LVII
GATES OF HELL AND GLORY
LVIII
ARACHNE
LIX
IN A LABYRINTH
LX
HILARY'S GHOST
LXI
THE FLAG-OF-TRUCE BOAT
LXII
FAREWELL, JANE!
LXIII
THE IRON-CLAD OATH
LXIV
"NOW, MR. BRICK-MASON,--"
LXV
FLORA'S LAST THROW
LXVI
"WHEN I HANDS IN MY CHECKS"
LXVII
MOBILE
LXVIII
LXIX
SOUTHERN CROSS AND NORTHERN STAR
LXX
GAINS AND LOSSES
LXXI
SOLDIERS OF PEACE
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