| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I.] | The Interruption | [1] |
| [II.] | Disgrace | [11] |
| [III.] | Outcast | [19] |
| [IV.] | Fourteen Years Later | [30] |
| [V.] | Past-Worthy | [40] |
| [VI.] | The Chums | [48] |
| [VII.] | Left Behind | [55] |
| [VIII.] | Council of War | [63] |
| [IX.] | A Lesson in Manners | [75] |
| [X.] | Sergeant Dadd | [84] |
| [XI.] | Devil and Deep Sea | [97] |
| [XII.] | The Little Lady | [103] |
| [XIII.] | The Alarm | [112] |
| [XIV.] | Dad the Paladin | [124] |
| [XV.] | Fighting Joe | [132] |
| [XVI.] | The Chickahominy | [139] |
| [XVII.] | “Battle Jimmie” | [148] |
| [XVIII.] | “General” Dadd | [155] |
| [XIX.] | The Clash | [165] |
| [XX.] | The Prodigal Father | [174] |
| [XXI.] | The Little Lady Again | [181] |
| [XXII.] | The Afterglow | [189] |
| [XXIII.] | The Attack | [200] |
| [XXIV.] | A Lost Burden | [209] |
| [XXV.] | The Three Comrades | [218] |
| [XXVI.] | The Iron Chess-Game | [226] |
| [XXVII.] | A Stern Chase | [237] |
| [XXVIII.] | Check and Countercheck | [248] |
| [XXIX.] | The End of the Fight | [260] |
| [XXX.] | Battle Jimmie, Courier | [266] |
| [XXXI.] | Jimmie and the Generals | [273] |
| [XXXII.] | Love | [283] |
| [XXXIII.] | War! | [290] |
| [XXXIV.] | The Man at Washington | [297] |
“DAD”
CHAPTER I
THE INTERRUPTION
ACROSS the plaza, under the white sun-glare, marched and countermarched the crack regiment’s bronzed men in their heavy high caps and the rest of the odd regimentals of the late Forties.
From walls and roofs hung a myriad of more or less soiled American flags. On the plaza band stand a group of Mexican musicians were wrestling with “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.”
This last feature of the celebration was a bit of tragic irony attributed to no less a humorist than the arch-victor, the hero of the day—Major-General Winfield Scott. The native musicians were in no wise loath, on patriotic grounds, to play “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.”