KINCAID'S BATTERY
BY
GEORGE W. CABLE
1908
ILLUSTRATED BY
ALONZO KIMBALL
[Illustration: "If anyone alive," he cried, "knows any cause why this thing should not be."]
To
E.C.S.C.
CONTENTS
I. Carrollton Gardens II. Carriage Company III. The General's Choice IV. Manoeuvres V. Hilary?--Yes, Uncle? VI. Messrs. Smellemout and Ketchem VII. By Starlight VIII. One Killed IX. Her Harpoon Strikes X. Sylvia Sighs XI. In Column of Platoons XII. Mandeville Bleeds XIII. Things Anna Could Not Write XIV. Flora Taps Grandma's Cheek XV. The Long Month of March XVI. Constance Tries to Help XVII. "Oh, Connie, Dear--Nothing--Go On" XVIII. Flora Tells the Truth! XIX. Flora Romances XX. The Fight for the Standard XXI. Constance Cross-Examines XXII. Same Story Slightly Warped XXIII. "Soldiers!" XXIV. A Parked Battery Can Raise a Dust XXV. "He Must Wait," Says Anna XXVI. Swift Going, Down Stream XXVII. Hard Going, Up Stream XXVIII. The Cup of Tantalus XXIX. A Castaway Rose XXX. Good-by, Kincaid's Battery XXXI. Virginia Girls and Louisiana Boys XXXII. Manassas XXXIII. Letters XXXIV. A Free-Gift Bazaar XXXV. The "Sisters of Kincaid's Battery" XXXVI. Thunder-Cloud and Sunburst XXXVII. "Till He Said, 'I'm Come Hame, My Love'" XXXVIII. Anna's Old Jewels XXXIX. Tight Pinch XL. The License, The Dagger XLI. For an Emergency XLII. "Victory! I Heard it as PI'--" XLIII. That Sabbath at Shiloh XLIV. "They Were all Four Together" XLV. Steve--Maxime--Charlie-- XLVI. The School of Suspense XLVII. From the Burial Squad XLVIII. Farragut XLIX. A City in Terror L. Anna Amazes Herself LI. The Callender Horses Enlist LII. Here They Come LIII. Ships, Shells, and Letters LIV. Same April Day Twice LV. In Darkest Dixie and Out LVI. Between the Millstones LVII. Gates of Hell and Glory LVIII. Arachne LIX. In a Labyrinth LX. Hilary's Ghost LXI. The Flag-of-Truce Boat LXII. Farewell, Jane! LXIII. The Iron-clad Oath LXIV. "Now, Mr. Brick-Mason--" LXV. Flora's Last Throw LXVI. "When I Hands in My Checks" LXVII. Mobile LXVIII. By the Dawn's Early Light LXIX. Southern Cross and Northern Star LXX. Gains and Losses LXXI. Soldiers of Peace
ILLUSTRATIONS
"If any one alive," he cried, "knows any cause why this thing should not be"
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable
- 2: A few hundred yards from the levee a slender railway
- 3: And Irby had duly reported complete success and drawn on him
- 4: So solemnly that Kincaid laughed outright
- 5: It must be Hilary for his adjutant general
- 6: III THE GENERAL'S CHOICEAnna Callender
- 7: Callender said Anna ought to be Andy
- 8: And because that form now was Hilary's Irby was aggrieved
- 9: Tell Captain Irby you can't wait any longer
- 10: Kincaid and Irby lent their horses to Mandeville and Charlie
- 11: I'm going to make Adolphe my adjutant general
- 12: Greenleaf accompanied the Valcours to their door
- 13: He introduced him Lieutenant Greenleaf
- 14: She's harder to give up than Doggon her
- 15: Out into the stinking dark leaped Naples and Gascony
- 16: Greenleaf snatched up his light cane
- 17: Fell prone across the prostrate Gibbs
- 18: All three of the Callenders were in the evening group
- 19: Judge Callender had died a Whig
- 20: Against the window's brightness her dark outline showed true
- 21: Callender who would no more ever again seem small
- 22: And Constance endeavoured to slip out
- 23: Near the front of the lowest Hyde Goodrich balcony
- 24: But had begun again to tell of Greenleaf
- 25: He sent an eager salutation to the Callenders
- 26: Hilary and Anna had lately sung this wail together
- 27: Aleck Moise Ralph Fenner Ned Ferry
- 28: Captain Kincaid comes ambling back
- 29: An urchin intercepted Kincaid to show him the Callenders
- 30: The Callenders and Mandeville walked
- 31: As Irby reached the carriage door Flora's touch arrested him
- 32: Where it was good by to Irby and the carriage
- 33: An' eveh sence dis worl' began
- 34: Mandeville devise' himself a splandid joke on that
- 35: They lay camped in pretty white tents that seemed to Anna
- 36: Were the guns the foremost cause
- 37: And Anna had almost made herself ill
- 38: With melting eyes Constance shook her head
- 39: You ask how the Valcour ladies
- 40: Said the girl of stamina beamingly
- 41: Let Constance and Miranda conduct her there
- 42: Flora tossed a despairing hand Gave it to grandma
- 43: The entire hundreds handed back to Captain Kincaid
- 44: Yet not the very same Hilary Kincaid
- 45: Behind the screen Flora smiled malignly while Anna said
- 46: Miss Anna he gestured with his cap
- 47: By the clink of his sabre Flora knew he was backing away
- 48: The sister sighed Nan Callender
- 49: But that he's determined to be fair to Fred Greenleaf Oh
- 50: It merely looked so to Flora Valcour
- 51: Kincaid broke the seal and read
- 52: Yet at the same time my gifted granddaughter
- 53: Kincaid and his foundry were given full credit
- 54: Bartleson advanced from the line By section
- 55: Whichever way the matter drifted
- 56: I should feel Captain Kincaid
- 57: And then of the Callenders who gave us our guns
- 58: The Chasseurs marched in to the nave
- 59: Bareheaded yet in splendid uniform
- 60: There the Callenders were awaited by Flora and Madame
- 61: That Irby felt himself the richest
- 62: But Hilary and Anna barely knew it
- 63: Came a strain of band music out of Camp Callender
- 64: You and Miss Callender steady
- 65: Constance gasped and Kincaid exclaimed
- 66: Thence Irby galloped to Bartleson's tent
- 67: With Flora she had been clever
- 68: The whole of Kincaid's Battery
- 69: The dejected girl dissembling elation
- 70: Flora played at hesitation Ah
- 71: General Brodnax conversed with Kincaid and Bartleson
- 72: And Mysterious across Elysian Fields not too Elysian
- 73: Came Hilary Kincaid with all the battery at his neat heels
- 74: While the conductor ran waving
- 75: Show green and blue in the sunlight of victory
- 76: Hilary seen every day with men high and mighty
- 77: Yet Flora drew little from Victorine
- 78: Yonder in the far east glimmered Centerville
- 79: Anna and Hilary were in correspondence
- 80: The actual text of Anna's chunk was never divulged
- 81: Its need had been learned at Manassas
- 82: Anna pointed Miranda to a line
- 83: The Callenders looked heart wrung
- 84: The Callenders and Valcours could see
- 85: As if you ever looked at anything selfishly
- 86: It's Anna who's making the trouble
- 87: But homeward bound Charlie and his captain
- 88: Cried Constance to Irby in one of her intuitions
- 89: The ever smiling Miranda followed
- 90: Irby had just bade the reader good by
- 91: About a gift made to the Bazaar by Captain Kincaid
- 92: That's the costliest gift in the Bazaar
- 93: Said the Callenders to the Valcours
- 94: Greenleaf knew the paramount secret
- 95: Irby spoke The order has come
- 96: Flora's glance went over to Irby
- 97: And as Irby strode by murmured to him
- 98: Kincaid waved thanks and glanced round
- 99: Ordered the superior Mandeville
- 100: He's trying to behave like Captain Kincaid
- 101: Nodding right and left to Mandeville and the detective
- 102: Instantly rang Kincaid to Charlie
- 103: As to your past and gone bazaar
- 104: For now the Callenders also were to leave the city
- 105: Here it crossed the Mobile and Ohio railroad at Corinth
- 106: I heard it as pl' Beauregard
- 107: XLIII THAT SABBATH AT SHILOH Whole theatre of action
- 108: The two hosts lie down once more
- 109: And Victorine to stand up and call down to this man and that
- 110: Small Victorine stood up to see
- 111: XLV STEVE MAXIME CHARLIE There was no real choice
- 112: But with never a trace of Kincaid or Charlie
- 113: Still diligently manoeuvred for
- 114: No moment of equal bitterness had Flora Valcour ever known
- 115: The barriers of humdrum convention
- 116: The musing Flora nodded compassionately
- 117: While the reticule fell unheeded to the floor
- 118: Foully has Richmond betrayed her sister city
- 119: No wonder the Callenders were leaving
- 120: All that day I am thinking of that Irbee
- 121: Heavily becalmed night the clock tolled eleven
- 122: From Camp Callender to Carrollton
- 123: Being unknown to Charlie or Victorine
- 124: But Charlie stared at his sister
- 125: Again the highway on either side the track
- 126: Other squads of the Foreign Legion
- 127: Ole mis' love' silk Generally she could stop it there
- 128: So Callender House came again to view
- 129: Miranda wrinkled back at her in an ecstasy of relief Oh
- 130: Plainly these were Constance and Miranda
- 131: With her maid beside her Anna lingered a bit
- 132: Anna to the upper front veranda
- 133: Charlie was aiming his great gun
- 134: Where Miranda stood trying to keep her
- 135: The rear was far down by the Mint
- 136: Running the batteries there as we had done at Vicksburg
- 137: When you do so you're moping
- 138: Have explained for the Callenders
- 139: But four fold contraband to the Callenders
- 140: Tenderly begging off from all talk of the Callenders
- 141: Behind Constance and beside Miranda
- 142: A disabled and paroled soldier bound homeward into Vicksburg
- 143: And then Bartleson and the boys
- 144: And on the next Vicksburg was invested
- 145: Not even Irby called them those he discerned hers
- 146: Her hope was to find Hilary Kincaid
- 147: The old woman resumed her needle
- 148: A sense of many having gone from that house
- 149: Threatened at every step to become the cry of onset
- 150: Illustration You 'ave no ri ight to leave me
- 151: The news of Vicksburg and Port Hudson ah
- 152: Would it have been even to name the name of Hilary Kincaid
- 153: Could she tell him with Flora
- 154: Did Anna not know that her shattered home
- 155: Victorine halted and sadly tossed a hand Ah
- 156: Sleep stole through all the house
- 157: Colonel Greenleaf is much too busy
- 158: And as Anna rose at a tap on the door
- 159: Meeting and parting of couriers and aides Madame Valcour
- 160: Seeing that now to know if Kincaid
- 161: Hilary seized a vanishing hand
- 162: We were admitted by Colonel Greenleaf
- 163: Presently the trowel sounded again and its wielder
- 164: In any rigue thiz heart would reco'nize you
- 165: Her eyes flashed into his You are Hilary Kincaid
- 166: Quietly remarked the smiling Hilary
- 167: And as Greenleaf sprang to him
- 168: Younger sister of little Mobile
- 169: Yet Anna watched Bartleson open his yellow official envelope
- 170: By kind conspiracy of Constance and Miranda
- 171: I've had enough of keeping things from Nan Callender
- 172: Two humps on each of the others
- 173: Miranda answered low Suppose
- 174: The Brooklyn follow with hers
- 175: Tearfully exulted the fond Callenders
- 176: Miranda and the junior officers left Hilary with Anna
- 177: Irby promptly brought the sheet to the Valcours' lodgings
- 178: At Mobile and elsewhere her armies daily
- 179: Greenleaf eyed them from the pilot house
- 180: Which now stood waiting for Hilary to manage
- 181: Their faithful delineation of Creole character
- 182: STRANGE TRUE STORIES OF LOUISIANAIllustrated