PORTER & COATES
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Tom Randolph, Conscript, | [1] |
| II. | Lambert’s Signal-Fire, | [29] |
| III. | Mr. Randolph Carries Tales, | [59] |
| IV. | The Phantom Bushwhackers, | [86] |
| V. | The Cotton Thieves, | [114] |
| VI. | The Man He Wanted to See, | [141] |
| VII. | Sailor Jack in Action, | [168] |
| VIII. | Bad News from Marcy, | [195] |
| IX. | Rodney is Astonished, | [222] |
| X. | Mark Goodwin’s Plan, | [247] |
| XI. | Ben Makes a Failure, | [273] |
| XII. | Surprised and Captured, | [302] |
| XIII. | In Williamston Jail, | [326] |
| XIV. | The Prison Pen, | [350] |
| XV. | On Account of the Dead Line, | [375] |
| XVI. | Sailor Jack, the Trader, | [403] |
| XVII. | Conclusion, | [435] |
SAILOR JACK, THE TRADER.
CHAPTER I.
TOM RANDOLPH, CONSCRIPT.
“Well, by gum! Am I dreamin’? Is this Tom Randolph or his hant?”
“I don’t wonder that you are surprised. It’s Tom Randolph easy enough, though I can hardly believe it myself when I look in the glass. There isn’t a nigger in the settlement that isn’t better clad and better mounted than I am.”
“Well, I have seen you when you looked a trifle pearter, that’s a fact.”
“And what brought me to this? The Yankees and their cowardly sympathizers. I don’t blame the boys in blue so much, for brave soldiers always respect one another, even though their sense of duty compels them to fight under different flags; but the traitors we have right here among us are too mean to be of any use. And the meanest one among them is Rodney Gray.”
The first speaker was Lieutenant Lambert, who, by his zealous efforts to serve the cause of the South, brought about the bombardment of Baton Rouge, and the person whom he addressed was the redoubtable Captain Tom himself, who had just returned to Mooreville after undergoing two months’ military discipline at Camp Pinckney.