------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. The cover image has been repaired to reproduce the first letters of the title, occluded by a library label, and, so modified, is added to the public domain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: REPLACING THE NOTICE.] A REBELLION IN DIXIE BY HARRY CASTLEMON AUTHOR OF “THE GUNBOAT SERIES,” “THE HUNTER SERIES,” “WAR SERIES,” ETC. PHILADELPHIA HENRY T. COATES & CO. 1897 COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY HENRY T. COATES & CO. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. IN REGARD TO THE REBELLION, 5 II. THE CONVENTION, 25 III. “A WORD IN YOUR EAR,” 45 IV. CARL BRINGS NEWS, 65 V. CAPTURING A WAGON-TRAIN, 88 VI. THE MARCH HOMEWARD, 109 VII. BREAKING THE MULE, 129 VIII. REBELS IN THE REAR, 152 IX. A NIGHT EXPEDITION, 176 X. CALE WANTS A MULE, 196 XI. MR. DAWSON’S STRATEGY, 220 XII. THE REBELS TAKE REVENGE, 247 XIII. CALE IN TROUBLE, 271 XIV. LEON A PRISONER, 294 XV. A FRIEND IN NEED, 315 XVI. A FIGHT AND ITS RESULTS, 338 XVII. THE EVENTS OF A WEEK, 363 XVIII. COLEMAN PROVES HIS HONESTY, 384 XIX. CONCLUSION, 407 A REBELLION IN DIXIE. CHAPTER I. IN REGARD TO THE REBELLION. “Now, Leon, you will take in everybody. Don’t leave a single man out, for we want them all there at this convention.”