Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net RIDE PROUD, REBEL! ANDRE NORTON [Transcriber Note: This is a rule 6 clearance. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK _Published by_ The World Publishing Company 2231 West 110th Street, Cleveland 2, Ohio _Published simultaneously in Canada by_ Nelson, Foster & Scott Ltd. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-6657 _First Edition_ HC361 Copyright (C) 1961 by Andre Norton Printed in the United States of America. * * * * * To those Reconstructed Rebels ERNESTINE and WILLIAM DONALDY _with no apologies from a damnyankee_ * * * * * The author wishes to express appreciation to Mrs. Gertrude Morton Parsley, Reference Librarian, Tennessee State Library and Archives, for her aid in obtaining use of the unpublished memoirs of trooper John Johnson, concerning the escape of the Morgan company after Cynthiana. Contents 1. Ride with Morgan 2. Guns in the Night 3. On the Run-- 4. The Eleventh Ohio Cavalry 5. Bardstown Surrenders 6. Horse Trade 7. A Mule for a River 8. Happy Birthday, Soldier! 9. One More River To Cross 10. "Dismount! Prepare To Fight Gunboats!" 11. The Road to Nashville 12. Guerrillas 13. Disaster 14. Hell in Tennessee 15. Independent Scout 16. Missing in Action 17. Poor Rebel Soldier.... 18. Texas Spurs * * * * * FROM GENERAL N. BEDFORD FORREST'S FAREWELL TO HIS COMMAND, MAY 9, 1865, GAINESVILLE, ALABAMA. _The cause for which you have so long and so manfully struggled, and for which you have braved dangers, endured privations and sufferings, and made so many sacrifices, is today hopeless...._ _Civil war, such as you have passed through naturally engenders feelings of animosity, hatred and revenge. It is our duty to divest ourselves of all such feelings; and, as far as in our power to do so, to cultivate friendly feelings toward those with whom we have so long contended, and heretofore so widely, but honestly, differed...._ _... In bidding you farewell, rest assured that you carry with you my best wishes for your future welfare and happiness. Without, in any way, referring to the merits of the cause in which we have been engaged, your courage and determination, as exhibited on many hard-fought fields, have elicited the respect and admiration of friend and foe. And I now cheerfully and gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to the officers and men of my command, whose zeal, fidelity and unflinching bravery have been the great source of my success in arms._