Fighting for the Right

Fighting for the Right, by Oliver
Optic

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Title: Fighting for the Right
Author: Oliver Optic
Illustrator: A. B. Shute
Release Date: July 10, 2006 [EBook #18803]
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY--AFLOAT
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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
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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: "Christy seized him by the collar with both hands." Page
75.]

The
BLUE AND THE GRAY
Series
[Illustration]
By Oliver Optic
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT

The Blue and the Gray Series
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT
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 Series" "The Onward and Upward Series" "The
Yacht-Club Series" "The Lake Shore Series" "The Riverdale Stories"
"The Boat-Builder Series" "Taken by the Enemy" "Within the Enemy's
Lines" "On the Blockade" "Stand by the Union" "A Missing Million"
"A Millionaire at Sixteen" etc., etc., etc.
BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers
Copyright, 1892 by Lee and Shepard All Rights Reserved
Fighting for the Right
Type-Setting and Electrotyping by C. J. Peters & Son, Boston

To
My Grand Nephew
RICHARD LABAN ADAMS
This Book
Is Affectionately Dedicated

PREFACE

"FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT" is the fifth and last but one of "The
Blue and the Gray Series." The character of the operations in
connection with the war of the Rebellion, and the incidents in which
the interest of the young reader will be concentrated, are somewhat
different from most of those detailed in the preceding volumes of the
series, though they all have the same patriotic tendency, and are carried
out with the same devotion to the welfare of the nation as those which
deal almost solely in deeds of arms.
Although the soldiers and sailors of the army and navy of the Union
won all the honors gained in the field of battle or on the decks of the
national ships, and deserved all the laurels they gathered by their skill
and bravery in the trying days when the republic was in peril, they were
not the only actors in the greatest strife of the nineteenth century. Not
all the labor of "saving the Union" was done in the trenches, on the
march, on the gun deck of a man-of-war, or in other military and naval
operations, though without these the efforts of all others would have
been in vain. Thousands of men and women who never "smelled
gunpowder," who never heard the booming cannon, or the rattling
musketry, who never witnessed a battle on sea or land, but who kept
their minds and hearts in touch with the holy cause, labored diligently
and faithfully to support and sustain the soldiers and sailors at the front.
If all those who fought no battles are not honored like the leaders and
commanders in the loyal cause, if they wear no laurels on their brows,
if no monuments are erected to transmit their memory to posterity, if
their names and deeds are not recorded in the Valhalla of the redeemed
nation, they ought not to be disregarded and ignored. It was not on the
field of strife alone in the South that the battle was fought and won.
The army and the navy needed a moral, as well as a material support,
which was cheerfully rendered by the great army of the people who
never buckled on a sword, or shouldered a musket. Their work can not
be summed up in deeds, for there was little or nothing that was brilliant
and dazzling in their career. They need no monuments; but their work
was necessary to the final and glorious result of the most terrible war of
modern times.

No apology is necessary for placing the hero of the story and his skilful
associate in a position at a distance