Produced by Louise Hope, David Garcia, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) THE BLUE AND THE GRAY--AFLOAT Two colors cloth Emblematic Dies Illustrated Price per volume $1.50 TAKEN BY THE ENEMY WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES ON THE BLOCKADE STAND BY THE UNION FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT A VICTORIOUS UNION THE BLUE AND THE GRAY--ON LAND Two colors cloth Emblematic Dies Illustrated Price per volume $1.50 BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER IN THE SADDLE A LIEUTENANT AT EIGHTEEN ON THE STAFF AT THE FRONT AN UNDIVIDED UNION Any Volume Sold Separately Lee and Shepard Publishers BOSTON [Illustration: Mulgrum and the engineer.] The BLUE AND THE GRAY Series [Illustration] By Oliver Optic ON THE BLOCKADE _The Blue and the Gray Series_ ON THE BLOCKADE by OLIVER OPTIC Author of "The Army and Navy Series" "Young America Abroad" "The Great Western Series" "The Woodville Stories" "The Starry Flag Series" "The Boat-Club Stories" "The Onward and Upward Series" "The Yacht-Club Series" "The Lake Shore Series" "The Riverdale Series" "The Boat-Builder Series" "Taken by the Enemy" "Within the Enemy's Lines" etc. BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers Copyright, 1890, by Lee and Shepard _All rights reserved._ On the Blockade. To my Son-in-Law, SOL SMITH RUSSELL, of the United States of America, though Residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is always "On the Blockade" against Melancholy, "The Blues," and all similar maladies, This Volume is affectionately dedicated. PREFACE "ON THE BLOCKADE" is the third of "The Blue and the Gray Series." Like the first and second volumes, its incidents are dated back to the War of the Rebellion, and located in the midst of its most stirring scenes on the Southern coast, where the naval operations of the United States contributed their full share to the final result. The writer begs to remind his readers again that he has not felt called upon to invest his story with the dignity of history, or in all cases to mingle fiction with actual historic occurrences. He believes that all the scenes of the story are not only possible, but probable, and that just such events as he has narrated really and frequently occurred in the days of the Rebellion.