E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 26725-h.htm or 26725-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/2/26725/26725-h/26725-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/2/26725/26725-h.zip) TWO LITTLE CONFEDERATES * * * * * BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS BY THOMAS NELSON PAGE Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus Santa Claus's Partner A Captured Santa Claus Among the Camps Two Little Confederates The Page Story Book CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS * * * * * TWO LITTLE CONFEDERATES by THOMAS NELSON PAGE Illustrated [Illustration: "I'M IN COMMAND," SAID THE GENTLEMAN, SMILING AT HIM OVER THE TOWEL.] New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1929 Copyright, 1888, by Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright, 1916, by Thomas Nelson Page Printed in the United States of America TO MY MOTHER LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "I'm in command," said the gentleman, smiling at him over the towel _Frontispiece_ PAGE The old man walked up to the door, and standing on one side, flung it open 29 "Gentlemen, marsters, don't teck my horses, ef you please," said Uncle Balla 69 Frank and Willy capture a member of the conscript-guard 95 The boy faced his captor, who held a strap in one hand 129 "Look! Look! They are running. They are beating our men!" exclaimed the boys 143 The boys sell their cakes to the Yankees 159 Some of the servants came back to their old home 167 TWO LITTLE CONFEDERATES. CHAPTER I.