E-text prepared by David Garcia, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 35206-h.htm or 35206-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35206/pg35206-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35206/35206-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Kentuckiana Digital Library. See http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;view=toc;idno=b92-168-30116834 BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER Or, The War on the Border _The Blue and the Gray Army Series_ by OLIVER OPTIC Author of "The Army and Navy Series" "Young America Abroad, First and Second Series" "Boat-Club Stories" "The Great Western Series" "The Onward and Upward Series" "The Woodville Stories" "The Starry Flag Series" "The Yacht-Club Series" "The Lake Shore Series" "The Riverdale Stories" "The All-Over-the-World Library" "The Blue and the Gray Navy Series" "The Boat-Builder Series" etc. Boston Lee and Shepard Publishers 10 Milk Street 1894 Copyright, 1894, by Lee and Shepard All Rights Reserved BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER Electrotyping by C. J. Peters & Son, Boston, U.S.A. Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co. TO My Son-in-Law GEORGE W. WHITE, ESQUIRE ONE OF TWO WHO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME TO ME AS REAL SONS This Book IS AFFECTIONATELY AND GRATEFULLY DEDICATED [Illustration: "THE OVERSEER ELEVATED HIS RIFLE."] PREFACE "Brother Against Brother" is the first of "The Blue and the Gray Army Series," which will include six volumes, though the number is contingent upon the longevity of one, still hale and hearty, who has passed by a couple of years the Scriptural limit of "threescore years and ten" allotted to human life. In completing the first six books of "The Blue and the Gray Series," the author realized that the scenes and events of all these stories related to life in the navy, which gallantly performed its full share in maintaining the integrity of the Union. The six books of "The Army and Navy Series," begun in the heat of the struggle thirty years ago, were equally divided between the two arms of the service; and it has been suggested that the equilibrium should be continued in the later volumes.