AMONG THE CAMPS BY THOMAS NELSON PAGE. ELSKET AND OTHER STORIES. 12mo, $1.00 NEWFOUND RIVER. 12mo, 1.00 IN OLE VIRGINIA. 12mo, 1.25 THE SAME. Cameo Edition. With an etching by W. L. Sheppard. 16mo, 1.25 AMONG THE CAMPS. Young People’s Stories of the War. Illustrated. Sq. 8vo, 1.50 TWO LITTLE CONFEDERATES. Illustrated. Square 8vo, 1.50 “BEFO’ DE WAR.” Echoes of Negro Dialect. By. A. C. Gordon and Thomas Nelson Page. 12mo, 1.00 [Illustration: “HALT!” BANG, BANG, WENT THE GUNS IN HIS VERY FACE.] AMONG THE CAMPS OR _YOUNG PEOPLE’S STORIES OF THE WAR_ BY THOMAS NELSON PAGE ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1891 COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York To Her: _NOTE._ _My acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Harper & Brothers and to Mr. A. B. Starey, the Publishers and the Editor of HARPERS’ YOUNG PEOPLE, in which Magazine I had the pleasure of having these stories, with the accompanying illustrations, first appear._ _T. N. P._ _CONTENTS._ _A Captured Santa Claus_ _Page 1_ _Kittykin, and the Part She Played in the War_ “ _41_ “_Nancy Pansy_” “ _65_ “_Jack and Jake_” “ _115_ _LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS._ _“Halt!” Bang, bang, went the Guns in His very Face_ _Frontispiece_ _Colonel Stafford opens the Bundle_ _Page 11_ _“What You Children gwine do wid dat little Cat?” asked Mammy, severely_ “ _40_ _“I Want My Kittykin,” said Evelyn_ “ _54_ _Nancy Pansy clasped Harry closely to Her Bosom_ “ _77_ _She ran up to Him, putting up Her Face to be Kissed_ “ _91_ _He drew Them Plans of the Roads and Hills and big Woods_ “ _123_ _Jack made a running Noose in the Rope and tried to throw it over the Horse’s Head_ “ _139_ A CAPTURED SANTA CLAUS. I. Holly Hill was the place for Christmas! From Bob down to brown-eyed Evelyn, with her golden hair floating all around her, every one hung up a stocking, and the visit of Santa Claus was the event of the year.