MACMILLAN'S STANDARD LIBRARY
A Little Traitor to the South
"Miss Fanny Glen detested a masterful man"
A Little Traitor to the South
A WAR-TIME COMEDY
With a
TRAGIC INTERLUDE
By
Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Illustrations are by A. D. Rahn
Decorations by C. E. Hooper.
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1903,
ByCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
Copyright, 1904,
ByTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1904. Reprinted
August, 1904; March, September, 1907; April, 1908; April, 1909.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To "Patty"
Most Faithful and Efficient of Coadjutors
PREFACE
"The tragic interlude" in this little war-time comedy of the affections really happened as I have described it. The men who went to their death beside theHousatonicin Charleston harbor were Lieutenant George F. Dixon of the Twenty-first Alabama Infantry, in command; Captain J. F. Carlson of Wagoner's Battery; and Seamen Becker, Simpkins, Wicks, Collins, and Ridgway of the Confederate Navy, all volunteers. These names should be written in letters of gold on the roll of heroes. No more gallant exploit was ever performed. The qualities and characteristics of that death trap, theDavid, were well known to everybody. The history of former attempts to work her is accurately set down in the text of the story. Dixon and his men should be remembered with Decatur, Cushing, Nields, and Hobson.
The torpedo boat was found after the war lying on the bottom of the harbor, about one hundred feet from the wreck of theHousatonic, with her bow pointing toward the sloop of war and with every man of her crew dead at his post,—just as they all expected.
I shall be happy if this novel serves to call renewed attention to this splendid exhibition of American heroism. Had they not fought for a cause which was lost they would still be remembered, as, in any event, they ought to be.
For the rest, here is a love story in which the beautiful Southern girl does not espouse the brave Union soldier, or the beautiful Northern girl the brave Southern soldier. They were all Southern, all true to the South, and they all stayed so except Admiral Vernon, and he does not count.
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
February, 1904.
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