CONTENTS
PageCHAPTER I.Astounding News from the Shore 13
CHAPTER II.The Brother at the South 24
CHAPTER III.Dangerous and Somewhat Irregular 35
CHAPTER IV.The First Mission of the Bellevite 47
CHAPTER V.The Bellevite and those on Board of her 58
CHAPTER VI.Mr. Percy Pierson introduces himself 69
CHAPTER VII.A Complication at Glenfield 80
CHAPTER VIII.A Disconsolate Purchaser of Vessels 91
CHAPTER IX.Christy matures a Promising Scheme 102
CHAPTER X.The Attempt to pass into Mobile Bay 113
CHAPTER XI.The Major in Command of Fort Gaines 124
CHAPTER XII.How the Bellevite passed Fort Morgan 135
CHAPTER XIII.A Decided Difference of Opinion 146
CHAPTER XIV.The Blue and the Gray 157
CHAPTER XV.Brother at War with Brother 168
CHAPTER XVI.Christy finds himself a Prisoner 179
CHAPTER XVIII.The Morning Trip of the Leopard 201
CHAPTER XIX.The Report of the Scout from the Shore 212
CHAPTER XX.A Rebellion in the Pilot-House 223
CHAPTER XXI.The Sick Captain of the Leopard 234
CHAPTER XXII.The Proceedings on the Lower Deck 245
CHAPTER XXIII.The Expedition from the Leopard 256
CHAPTER XXIV.The Engineer goes into the Forecastle 267
CHAPTER XXV.The First Lesson for a Sailor 278
CHAPTER XXVI.The Post of Duty and of Danger 289
CHAPTER XXVII.A Cannon-Ball through the Leopard 300
CHAPTER XXVIII.The American Flag at the Fore 311
CHAPTER XXIX.On Board of the Bellevite 322
CHAPTER XXX.Running the Gantlet 333
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