Fred Shackelford and Calhoun Pennington, the heroes of the story, are children of the imagination, as well as their relatives and friends.
With this brief introduction, the author sends forth this little volume, hoping that the rising generation may not only read it, but enjoy it, and be somewhat enlightened by it.
Through bitter tears and dreadful carnage the Union was preserved; and through it all there has come a great blessing. Thoroughly united, the North and the South are vying with each other in upholding the honor of the flag. Shoulder to shoulder they stand, battling that the last remnant of tyranny may be driven from the New World.
B. A. D.
Waukegan, Ill., June, 1898.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | THE QUARREL AND THE OATH | [15] |
| II. | THE MEETING WITH NELSON | [22] |
| III. | THE DAY AFTER BULL RUN | [34] |
| IV. | THE TRIP TO NASHVILLE | [58] |
| V. | FATHER AND SON | [80] |
| VI. | THE FIGHT FOR THE ARMS | [98] |
| VII. | THE FOILING OF A PLOT | [115] |
| VIII. | A DARING DEED | [135] |
| IX. | A LEAP FOR LIFE | [153] |
| X. | IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY | [167] |
| XI. | CRAZY BILL SHERMAN | [187] |
| XII. | A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER | [195] |
| XIII. | THE MEETING OF THE COUSINS | [206] |
| XIV. | THE BATTLE OF MILL SPRINGS | [227] |
| XV. | A FIGHT WITH GUERRILLAS | [238] |
| XVI. | FORT DONELSON | [253] |
| XVII. | AFTER THE BATTLE | [267] |
| XVIII. | "WE BOTH MUST DIE" | [279] |
| XIX. | SHILOH | [294] |
| XX. | "MY SON! MY SON!" | [311] |