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 (Other volumes in preparation) Any Volume Sold Separately. Lee and Shepard Publishers Boston [Illustration: Mr. Galvinne is Subdued.--Page 166.] The BLUE AND THE GRAY Series [Illustration] By Oliver Optic STAND by the UNION _The Blue and the Gray Series_ STAND BY THE UNION 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 Series" "The Onward and Upward Series" "The Yacht-Club Series" "The Lake Shore Series" "The Riverdale Stories" "The Boat-Builder Series" "Taken by the Enemy" "Within the Enemy's Lines" "On the Blockade" etc. BOSTON 1896 LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 Milk Street Next "The Old South Meeting House." Copyright, 1891, by Lee and Shepard _All rights reserved._ Stand by the Union. To My Two Young Friends, MISS HELEN CAMPBELL SMITH and MISS ANNA ROCKWELL SMITH, The Daughters Of My Friend Mr. George A. Smith Of Boston, This Volume Is Affectionately Dedicated. PREFACE "STAND BY THE UNION" is the fourth of "The Blue and Gray Series." As in the preceding volumes of the series, the incidents of the story are located in the midst of the war of the Rebellion, now dating back nearly thirty years, or before any of my younger readers were born. To those who lived two days in one through that eventful and anxious period, sometimes trembling for the fate of the nation, but always sustained by the faith and the hope through which the final victory was won, it seems hardly possible that so many years have flowed into the vast ocean of the past since that terrible conflict was raging over so large a portion of our now united country.