The Greenback Train.

The Battle in the Clouds.

Peach-Tree Creek.

The Monkey and the Cat’s Paw.

Supper for Seven.

The Cat’s Paw too sharp for the Monkey.

The Blood-Hounds on the Track.

The Pilgrimage to the Sea.

Major Somers and Friends.

FIGHTING JOE.

FIGHTING JOE;

OR,

THE FORTUNES OF A STAFF OFFICER.

CHAPTER I. A FIGHTING MAN.

A FIGHTING MAN.

 “WELL, Alick, I don’t know where I am,” said Captain Thomas Somers, of the staff of the major general commanding the first army corps of the Army of the Potomac, then on its march to repel the invasion of Maryland, which had been attempted by the victorious rebels under General Lee.

“Well, massa, I’m sure I don’t know,” replied Alick, his colored servant. “If you was down ’bout Petersburg, I reckon I’d know all ’bout it.”

“We must find out very soon,” added Captain Somers, as he reined in his horse at a point where two roads branched off, one to the north-west and the other to the south-west.

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