Produced by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) THE MINUTE BOYS OF YORK TOWN AMERICAN HISTORY STORIES FOR BOYS _THE MINUTE BOY SERIES_ By Edward Stratemeyer and James Otis The Minute Boys of Lexington The Minute Boys of Bunker Hill The Minute Boys of the Green Mountains The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley The Minute Boys of the Wyoming Valley _THE MEXICAN WAR SERIES_ By Capt. Ralph Bonehill For the Liberty of Texas With Taylor on the Rio Grande Under Scott in Mexico DANA ESTES & COMPANY Publishers Estes Press, Summer St., Boston [Illustration: "IT WAS A SIGHT WELL CALCULATED TO STIR THE BLOOD OF A BOY FROM VIRGINIA."] THE MINUTE BOYS OF YORK TOWN JAMES OTIS Author of "The Minute Boys of Long Island," The "Minute Boys of Wyoming Valley," "Boys of '98," "Teddy and Carrots," "Boys of Fort Schuyler," "Under the Liberty Tree," etc., etc. _Illustrated by_ L. J. BRIDGMAN [Illustration] BOSTON DANA ESTES & COMPANY PUBLISHERS _Copyright, 1912_ BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY _All rights reserved_ THE MINUTE BOYS OF YORK TOWN PRESS OF THE VAIL-BALLOU CO. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. TWO YOUNG VIRGINIANS 11 II. SILVER HEELS 30 III. UNCLE 'RASMUS'S ADVICE 49 IV. THE TOWN OF YORK 70 V. OUR PRISONER 89 VI. A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE 109 VII. MORGAN, THE SPY 128 VIII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SAUL 147 IX. SUSPENSE 166 X. NEWS OF SAUL 185 XI. A DESPERATE VENTURE 205 XII. SAUL'S OPPORTUNITY 223 XIII. THE SIEGE 240 XIV. AN UGLY SITUATION 258 XV. FORAGING 276 XVI. PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT 294 XVII. OUR BLUNDER 310 XVIII. TRAPPED 329 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "IT WAS A SIGHT WELL CALCULATED TO STIR THE BLOOD OF A BOY FROM VIRGINIA" (_Page 227_) _Frontispiece_ "THAT WE MIGHT PEER BETWEEN THE LEAVES" 26 "HE ... TOUCHED HIS HAT IN REGULAR MILITARY SALUTE" 76 "I SPRANG FORWARD" 90 "WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST WARNING I FOUND MYSELF IN THE CLUTCHES OF A MAN" 119 "HALT, OR I'LL FIRE!" 138 THE RELEASE OF SAUL OGDEN 233 "A GENERAL DISCHARGE ... WAS COMMENCED BY THE AMERICANS" 289 THE MINUTE BOYS OF YORK TOWN CHAPTER I TWO YOUNG VIRGINIANS