Produced by David Edwards, Carla Foust, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's note Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. A printer error has been changed and is listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON [Illustration: "The officers expressed their earnest remonstrances." (See page 198.)] The Story of Old Fort Loudon By Charles Egbert Craddock Author of "In the Tennessee Mountains," "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," etc., etc. With Illustrations by Ernest C. Peixotto New York The Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1899 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1898, By The Macmillan Company. _Norwood Press_ _J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._ Illustrations "The officers expressed their earnest remonstrances" (see page 198) _Frontispiece_ Facing page "What more wonderful? What more fearful?" 16 "The canoe rocked in the swirls" 54 "And oh, the moment of housewifely pride!" 128 "Plunging through the gate and half across the parade ground" 240 Belinda and the Ensign on the moonlit rampart 252 "The men had been hastily formed into a square" 346 "He stared forward blankly at the inevitable prospect" 376 The Story of Old Fort Loudon CHAPTER I