The Blue and the Gray Series In Press Lee and Shepard Publishers Boston The Blue and the Gray Series WITHIN THE ENEMY’S LINES OLIVER OPTIC BOSTON 1890 LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS All rights reserved. A MON JEUNE AMI, Monsieur Lucien Bing, 7 7 PREFACE "Within the Enemy's Lines" is the second volume of "The Blue and the Gray Series." Like its predecessor, of course, its scenes are connected with the war of the Rebellion; and perhaps the writer ought to be thankful that he is not required in such a work to rise to the dignity of history, but he believes that all his events were possible, and that every one of them has had its parallel in the actual occurrences of the historic period of which he writes. In fact, some of the experiences of the actors in the terrible drama of a quarter of a century ago would pass more readily for fiction than for reality, and detailed on the pages of a story would be deemed impossible by the conservative reader. Within the Enemy's Lines The nation has passed out of its ordeal of fire, and an excellent spirit on the part of both parties to the great strife is still growing and strengthening, 8 in spite of an occasional exhibition of folly on both sides on the part of those who have not outlived the bitterness of the past, and who probably will not outlive it. The time will
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