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Title: The Iron Game
A Tale of the War

Author: Henry Francis Keenan

Release Date: November 12, 2003 [EBook #10062]

Language: English

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The Iron Game

A TALE OF THE WAR

BY

HENRY F. KEENAN

"Heavy and solemn the cloudy column
Over the green fields marching came,
Measureless spread like a table bread
For the cold grim dice of the iron game."

1898

TO

BERNARD JOHN McGRANN

WHOSE LIFE AND CONDUCT EMBODY AND ILLUSTRATE

THE MANLINESS, MODESTY, AND WORTH

THAT FANCY DELIGHTS TO EMBALM IN FICTION

THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED

BY ONE AMONG THE MANY WITNESSES OF HIS NOBLE CAREER

HENRY F. KEENAN

NEW YORK, _25th March, 1891_.

CONTENTS

BOOK I.

_THE CARIBEES_.

CHAPTER

I.--THE BOY IN BLUE
II.--FLAG AND FAITH
III.--MALBROOK S'EN VA-T-EN GUERRE
IV.--GUELPH AND GHIBELLINE
V.--A NAPOLEONIC EPIGRAM
VI.--ON THE POTOMAC
VII.--THE STEP THAT COSTS
VIII.--AN ARMY WITH BANNERS
IX.--"THE ASSYRIAN CAME DOWN LIKE THE WOLF ON THE FOLD"
X.--BLOOD AND IRON
XI.--THE LEGIONS OF VARUS

BOOK II.

_THE HOSTAGES_.

XII.--THE AFTERMATH
XIII.--A COMEDY OF TERRORS
XIV.--UNDER TWO FLAGS
XV.--ROSEDALE
XVI.--A MASQUE IN ARCADY
XVII.--TREASON AND STRATAGEMS
XVIII.--A CAMPAIGN OF PLOTS
XIX.--"HE EITHER FEARS HIS FATE TOO MUCH"
XX.--A CATASTROPHE
XXI.--THE STORY OF THE NIGHT
XXII.--A CARPET-KNIGHT
XXIII.--ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR

BOOK III.

_THE DESERTERS._

XXIV.--BETWEEN THE LINES
XXV.--PHANTASMAGORIA
XXVI.--IN THE UNION LINES
XXVII.--"THE ABSENT ARE ALWAYS IN THE WRONG"
XXVIII.--THE WORLD WENT VERY ILL THEN
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