L. J. BRIDGMAN
BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1910
By Dana Estes & Company
All rights reserved
THE MINUTE BOYS OF BOSTON
Electrotyped and Printed by
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Why We Were Enrolled [11]
II. Raising a Company [29]
III. The War Begun [48]
IV. The Prisoner [71]
V. Suspicious Information [89]
VI. A Cloudy Night [104]
VII. The Summons [126]
VIII. Hog Island [144]
IX. On Special Duty [163]
X. On Breed's Hill [183]
XI. The Retreat [203]
XII. In Boston Town [222]
XIII. Grave Doubts [242]
XIV. The Secret Passage [261]
XV. An Awkward Capture [279]
XVI. Important Documents [298]
XVII. Hiram's Venture [316]
XVIII. Turning the Trick [334]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
"And we did check them!" (p. [195]) [Frontispiece]
"I could have tossed my hat aboard their craft" [27]
"I leaped the fence" [61]
The Encampment at Cambridge [83]
"The second flash of lightning showed me this scene" [117]
"'Who shall say now that we haven't the right to call ourselves Minute Boys?'" [157]
"Master Lord held up the unscreened lantern" [229]
"'Would you do murder?'" [282]