Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 40525-h.htm or 40525-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40525/40525-h/40525-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40525/40525-h.zip) KATHIE'S SOLDIERS by AMANDA M. DOUGLAS * * * * * BOOKS BY AMANDA M. DOUGLAS * * * * * THE HELEN GRANT BOOKS New Popular Edition. Nine volumes. ILLUSTRATED Price per volume, $.60 HELEN GRANT'S SCHOOL-DAYS HELEN GRANT'S FRIENDS HELEN GRANT AT ALDRED HOUSE HELEN GRANT IN COLLEGE HELEN GRANT, SENIOR HELEN GRANT, GRADUATE HELEN GRANT, TEACHER HELEN GRANT'S DECISION HELEN GRANT'S HARVEST YEAR * * * * * LITTLE RED HOUSE SERIES ILLUSTRATED. Price per volume, Net $1.00; Postpaid $1.10 THE CHILDREN IN THE LITTLE OLD RED HOUSE THE RED HOUSE CHILDREN AT GRAFTON THE RED HOUSE CHILDREN'S VACATION THE RED HOUSE CHILDREN'S YEAR THE RED HOUSE CHILDREN GROWING UP * * * * * ALMOST AS GOOD AS A BOY. Illustrated _Net_ $1.25 HEROES OF THE CRUSADES. Fifty full-page Illustrations from GUSTAVE DORE _Net_ 1.35 LARRY (THE $2000 PRIZE STORY) _Net_ 1.00 THE KATHIE STORIES. Six Volumes. Illustrated. Per volume .50 THE DOUGLAS NOVELS. Twenty-four Volumes. Per volume .60 * * * * * LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON * * * * * [Illustration: "I WISH YOU AND I COULD GO OUT WITH THE GIFTS."--_Page 99._] KATHIE'S SOLDIERS by AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Author of "Helen Grant Books," "Little Red House Series," etc. Frontispiece by C. Howard [Illustration] Boston Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by Lee and Shepard, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Copyright, 1899, by Amanda M. Douglas. All Rights Reserved. KATHIE'S SOLDIERS. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE ENLISTING IN THE GRAND ARMY 9 CHAPTER II. DRAFTED 27 CHAPTER III. TRUE TO ONE'S COLORS 42 CHAPTER IV. LITTLE STEPS BY THE WAY 60 CHAPTER V. ONE OF THE SMALL DEEDS 80 CHAPTER VI. GIVING AND RECEIVING 98 CHAPTER VII. A VISIT 116 CHAPTER VIII. COMFORT IN NEED 135 CHAPTER IX. THORNS IN THE PATH 151 CHAPTER X. UNDER FIRE 172