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On The Blockade By: Oliver Optic (1822-1897) |
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Two colors cloth Emblematic Dies Illustrated
Price per volume $1.50 TAKEN BY THE ENEMY
WITHIN THE ENEMY'S LINES
ON THE BLOCKADE
STAND BY THE UNION
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT
A VICTORIOUS UNION THE BLUE AND THE GRAY ON LAND Two colors cloth Emblematic Dies Illustrated
Price per volume $1.50 BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER
IN THE SADDLE
A LIEUTENANT AT EIGHTEEN
ON THE STAFF
AT THE FRONT
AN UNDIVIDED UNION Any Volume Sold Separately Lee and Shepard Publishers
BOSTON
[Illustration: Mulgrum and the engineer.]
The BLUE AND THE GRAY Series [Illustration] By Oliver Optic ON THE BLOCKADE
The Blue and the Gray Series ON THE BLOCKADE 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"
"Within the Enemy's Lines" etc.
BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers
Copyright, 1890, by Lee and Shepard
All rights reserved. On the Blockade.
To my Son in Law, SOL SMITH RUSSELL, of the United States of America,
though Residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is always
"On the Blockade" against Melancholy, "The Blues,"
and all similar maladies, This Volume
is affectionately dedicated.
PREFACE
"ON THE BLOCKADE" is the third of "The Blue and the Gray Series." Like
the first and second volumes, its incidents are dated back to the War
of the Rebellion, and located in the midst of its most stirring scenes
on the Southern coast, where the naval operations of the United States
contributed their full share to the final result. The writer begs to remind his readers again that he has not felt called
upon to invest his story with the dignity of history, or in all cases
to mingle fiction with actual historic occurrences. He believes that all
the scenes of the story are not only possible, but probable, and that
just such events as he has narrated really and frequently occurred in
the days of the Rebellion. The historian is forbidden to make his work more palatable or more
interesting by the intermixture of fiction with fact, while the
story writer, though required to be reasonably consistent with the
spirit and the truth of history, may wander from veritable details, and
use his imagination in the creation of incidents upon which the grand
result is reached. It would not be allowable to make the Rebellion a
success, if the writer so desired, even on the pages of romance; and it
would not be fair or just to ignore the bravery, the self sacrifice, and
the heroic endurance of the Southern people in a cause they believed to
be holy and patriotic, as almost universally admitted at the present
time, any more than it would be to lose sight of the magnificent spirit,
the heroism, the courage, and the persistence, of the Northern people in
accomplishing what they believed then, and still believe, was a holy and
patriotic duty in the preservation of the Union. Incidents not inconsistent with the final result, or with the spirit
of the people on either side in the great conflict are of comparatively
little consequence. That General Lee or General Grant turned this or
that corner in reaching Appomattox may be important, but the grand
historical tableau is the Christian hero, noble in the midst of defeat,
disaster, and ruin, formally rendering his sword to the impassible but
magnanimous conqueror as the crowning event of a long and bloody war.
The details are historically important, though overshadowed by the
mighty result of the great conflict... Continue reading book >>
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