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 Libra The Blue and the Gray Series TAKEN BY THE ENEMY WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES ON THE BLOCKADE In Press Lee and Shepard Publishers Boston [Illustration: "He saw Two Men making their way through the Grove."--Page 28.] The BLUE AND THE GRAY Series [Illustration] By Oliver Optic WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES _The Blue and the Gray Series_ WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES 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 Stories," "The Onward and Upward Series," "The Yacht-Club Series," "The Lake Shore Series," "The Riverdale Series," "The Boat-Builder Series," "Taken by the Enemy," etc. BOSTON 1890 Lee and Shepard Publishers 10 Milk Street Next "The Old South Meeting House" NEW YORK Chas. T. Dillingham 718 and 720 Broadway Copyright, 1889, by Lee and Shepard _All rights reserved._ WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES. A MON JEUNE AMI, (que je n'ai jamais vu, et que je ne connais pas,) Monsieur Lucien Bing, de Paris, France, En Reconnaissance de la Bonte de son Pere, Cette Historiette de la Guerre Civile en Amerique Est affectueusement Dedie. PREFACE "WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES" is the second volume of "The Blue and the Gray Series." Like its predecessor, of course, its scenes are connected with the war of the Rebellion; and perhaps the writer ought to be thankful that he is not required in such a work to rise to the dignity of history, but he believes that all his events were possible, and that every one of them has had its parallel in the actual occurrences of the historic period of which he writes. In fact, some of the experiences of the actors in the terrible drama of a quarter of a century ago would pass more readily for fiction than for reality, and detailed on the pages of a story would be deemed impossible by the conservative reader.