Both Sides of the Great Civil War
Both Sides of the Great Civil War
Both Sides of the Great Civil War
Both Sides of the Great Civil War
DEFENDING HIS FLAG
DEFENDING HIS FLAG
Or A Boy in Blue and a Boy in Gray
Or A Boy in Blue and a Boy in Gray
Or A Boy in Blue and a Boy in Gray
Or A Boy in Blue and a Boy in Gray
By Edward Stratemeyer
By Edward Stratemeyer
By Edward Stratemeyer
431 pagesEight full-page illustrations by Griswold TyngBeautifully bound in colors and goldPrice $1.50
431 pagesEight full-page illustrations by Griswold TyngBeautifully bound in colors and goldPrice $1.50
431 pagesEight full-page illustrations by Griswold Tyng
Beautifully bound in colors and goldPrice $1.50
This tale relates the adventures of two boys, or rather young men, during the first campaign of our great Civil War. One enlists in the infantry of the North, while the other throws in his fortunes with the cavalry of the South. Of the story Mr. Stratemeyer himself says:
“In writing this work I have had but one object in view, and that was to give a faithful picture of a part of the Civil War as seen from both sides of that never-to-be-forgotten conflict. During the war, and for years afterward, grown folk and young people were treated to innumerable books on the subject, all written from either the Northern or the Southern point of view, thoroughly biased, and calculated to do more harm than good. I think the time has come when the truth, and the whole truth at that, can be told, and when it will do positive good. Since the Spanish-American War, when some of the gallant Southern officers and men made such records for themselves under Old Glory, the old lines have been practically wiped out. The reconstructed South is as firm a part of our nation as was the old South during the first half of the last century, and it has a perfect right to honor the memories of those who, while wearing the gray and marching under the stars and bars, fought so gallantly for what they considered was right and true.”
The mantle of Henty, as a writer of books of history and travel for boys, seems to have fallen on Mr. Stratemeyer.—Zion’s Herald, Boston.
Everybody knows that Edward Stratemeyer is the most widely read of all living American writers for boys.—Dispatch, Pittsburg, Pa.