. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout : a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls. XIV Tom Hunts Wilkes Booth—The End of theMurderer—Andrew Johnson, Presidentof the United States—Tom and TowserGo Home 3X5 ILLUSTRATIONS Abraham Lincoln Frontispiece St. Gaudens Statue, Lincoln Park, Chicago PAGE John Brown 10 The Attack upon the Engine House . 17Battle of the Monitor and the Mer- rimac 66 Admiral Farragut 72 Mississippi River Gunboats .... 85 The Locomotive Tom Helped to Steal . 106 Towser . 157 General Duke Samples the Pies . .191 Arlington 198 Gen. Robert E. Lee on Traveler . .
. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout : a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls. XIV Tom Hunts Wilkes Booth—The End of theMurderer—Andrew Johnson, Presidentof the United States—Tom and TowserGo Home 3X5 ILLUSTRATIONS Abraham Lincoln Frontispiece St. Gaudens Statue, Lincoln Park, Chicago PAGE John Brown 10 The Attack upon the Engine House . 17Battle of the Monitor and the Mer- rimac 66 Admiral Farragut 72 Mississippi River Gunboats .... 85 The Locomotive Tom Helped to Steal . 106 Towser . 157 General Duke Samples the Pies . .191 Arlington 198 Gen. Robert E. Lee on Traveler . . 201 Libby Prison after the War .... 214 Fighting the Rats 224 Libby Prison and the Tunnel .... 229 Abraham Lincoln in 1864 .... 269 Gen. W. T. Sherman 2^2 St. Gaudens Statue, Central Park. Plaza, New York Bob 275 Gen. Philip H. Sheridan 278 Sheridan Square Statue, Washington, D. C. Tom Takes a Battery into Action . 292The McLean House, Appomattox Court-house 299 Lee Surrenders to Grant 302 Gen. U. S. Grant 304 MAP Eastern Half of United States ... 2 TOM STRONG, LINCOLNS SCOUT. THE EASTERN UNITED STATES(Showing places mentioned in this book) TOM STRONG, LINCOLNS SCOUT CHAPTER I Tom Rides in Western Maryland—Halted byArmed Men—John Brown—The Attackupon Harpers Ferry—The Fight—JohnBrowns Soul Goes Marching On. /^VN a beautiful October afternoon, a man anda boy were riding along a country roadin Western Maryland. To their left lay thePotomac, its waters gleaming and sparklingbeneath the rays of the setting sun. To theirright, low hills, wooded to the top, bounded theview. They had left the little town of HarpersFerry, Virginia, an hour before; had crossed tothe Maryland shore of the Potomac-; and nowwere looking for some country inn or friendlyfarmhouse where they and their horses could becared for overnight. The man was Mr. Thomas Strong, once Tom3 4 Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout Strong, third, and the boy was his son, anotherTom Strong, the fourth to bear that name.
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