The title novel is set in 1865, when a naval officer’s duty and his love become entangled in the final months of the Civil War. It is followed by a batch of shorter stories of varied kinds, from sea fights to a theatre scene in which a man storms the stage to rescue a crying child.
Brisk, sentimental magazine fiction by a sailor-turned-clergyman, illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy and others. Download the free EPUB.
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