Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: _Frontispiece--"'I CAN SEE NO ONE BUT THE GENERAL,' JANIE SAID." _See page 133._] Then Marched the Brave By Harriet T. Comstock Author of "When the British Came," "Molly, the Drummer Boy," etc. _Illustrations by Anna S. Hicks_ PHILADELPHIA HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY BY THE SAME AUTHOR MOLLY, THE DRUMMER BOY WHEN THE BRITISH CAME Fifty cents each Copyright, 1904, by Henry Altemus CONTENTS CHAPTER I ANDY McNEAL CHAPTER II A STRANGER IN THE NIGHT CHAPTER III THE CROWNING OF ANDY McNEAL CHAPTER IV THROUGH THE CAVE CHAPTER V A SUSPICION CHAPTER VI THEN MARCHED THE BRAVE CHAPTER VII ANDY HEARS A STRANGE TALK CHAPTER VIII AT HEADQUARTERS CHAPTER IX PEACE ILLUSTRATIONS "'I can see no one but the General,' Janie said" "Andy was at the oars now" "'Good day, my pretty lass!'" "Burr ventured a question" "It took all of Andy's courage to don the female attire" THEN MARCHED THE BRAVE CHAPTER I ANDY McNEAL It was in the time when the king's men had things pretty much their own way, and mystery and plot held full sway, that there lived, in a little house near McGown Pass on the upper end of Manhattan Island, a widow and her lame son. She was a tall, gaunt woman of Scotch ancestry, but loyal to the land that had given her a second home. She was not a woman of many opinions, but the few that she held were rigid, and not to be trifled with. With all her might she hated the king, and with equal intensity loved the cause of freedom. In the depths of her nature there was a great feeling of shame and disappointment that her only son was a hopeless cripple, and so could not be offered as a living sacrifice to the new cause. Janie McNeal held it against the good God that she, His faithful servant, must be denied the glorious opportunity of giving her best and all, as other mothers were doing, that the land of the free might be wrested from cruel tyranny. To be sure, Andy was but sixteen. That mattered little to Janie; young as he was, she could have held him in readiness, as did Hannah of old, until the time claimed him--but his lameness made it impossible. Among all the deeds of courage, he must stand forever apart!