A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs

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Eggleston George Cary. A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs

PREFACE

I. The Final Fight

II. Alone in the High Mountains

III. The New Birth of Manhood

IV. A Private in the Army of Work

V. The Beginning of a Career

VI. A Captain in the Army of Work

VII. The "Sizing Up" of Guilford Duncan

VIII. On Duty

IX. One Night's Work

X. Alliance, Offensive and Defensive

XI. The Ways of Guilford Duncan

XII. Barbara Verne

XIII. A Battle and an Acquaintance

XIV. A Social Advance

XV. The Coming Out of Barbara

XVI. A New Enemy

XVII. An Old Friend

XVIII. Dick Temple's Plans

XIX. Dick Temple's Story

XX. In the Summer Time

XXI. An Interview with Napper Tandy

XXII. Under the Honeysuckles

XXIII. Captain Will Hallam in the Game

XXIV. Barbara's Answer

XXV. Temple and Tandy

XXVI. A Pact With Barbara

XXVII. Mrs. Hallam Hears News

XXVIII. The Birth of a Great Railroad

XXIX. A Scrap of Paper

XXX. The Mystery of Tandy

XXXI. Only a Woman

XXXII. The Riddle Explained

XXXIII. At Crisis

XXXIV. A Cheer for Little Missie

XXXV. The End of a Struggle

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The slender remnant of Lee's artillery swung slowly into position a few miles west of Appomattox Court House. Wearily – but with spirit still – the batteries parked their guns in a field facing a strip of woodland. The guns were few in number now, but they were all that was left of those that had done battle on a score of historic fields.

Lee had been forced out of his works at Richmond and Petersburg a week before. Ever since, with that calm courage which had sustained him throughout the later and losing years of the war, he had struggled and battled in an effort to retreat to the Roanoke River. He had hoped there to unite the remnant of his army with what was left of Johnston's force, and to make there a final and desperate stand.

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Captain Duncan's party were on a bald hill within easy range of the carbines of Sheridan's men, but not a shot was fired at them, and not so much as a squad was sent out to demand their surrender.

Night was now near at hand and Guilford Duncan turned to his men and said:

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