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A tall, well-favoured youth, coming from the farther South, boarded the train for Richmond one raw, gusty morning. He carried his left arm stiffly, his face was thin and brown, and his dingy uniform had holes in it, some made by bullets; but his air and manner were happy, as if, escaped from danger and hardships, he rode on his way to pleasure and ease. He sat for a time gazing out of the window at the gray, wintry landscape that fled past, and then, having a youthful zest for new things, looked at those who traveled with him in the car. The company seemed. | 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI Before the Dawn by Joseph Alexander Altsheler 2 CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI Before the Dawn by Joseph Alexander Altsheler The Project Gutenberg EBook of Before the Dawn by Joseph Alexander Altsheler This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond Author Joseph Alexander Altsheler Release Date May 4 2007 EBook 21321 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEFORE THE DAWN Produced by Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond By JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY PAGE COMPANY 1903 Copyright 1903 by Doubleday Page Company Published April 1903 OTHER BOOKS BY JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER The Sun of Saratoga A Soldier of Manhattan Before the Dawn by Joseph Alexander Altsheler A Herald of the West 3 The Last Rebel In Circling Camps In Hostile Red The Wilderness Road My Captive For the rhyming pun given by a member of The Mosaic Club and quoted in the third chapter of this book the author is indebted to T. C. DeLeon s Four Years in Rebel Capitals. CONTENTS I. A Woman in Brown 3 II. A Man s Mother 16 III. The Mosaic Club 25 IV. The Secretary Moves 40 V. An Elusive Face 52 VI. The Pursuit of a Woman 71 VII. The Cottage in the Side Street 83 VIII. The Pall