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Title: Winning His Way

Author: Charles Carleton Coffin

Release Date: October 7, 2007 [eBook #22913]

Language: English

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WINNING HIS WAY.

by

CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN,

Author "Story of Liberty," "Boys of '76,"
"My Days and Nights on the Battlefield,"
"Our New Way Round the World," "Following the Flag," Etc.

Boston, Mass.:
Perry Mason & Co.
1888.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
Charles Carleton Coffin,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. FIRST YEARS 1

II. HARD TIMES 27

III. MERRY TIMES 42

IV. MUSIC AND PAINTING 63

V. THE NIGHT-HAWKS 82

VI. PAUL'S FRIENDS 91

VII. IN A TRAP 103

VIII. KEEPING SCHOOL 116

IX. RALLYING ROUND THE FLAG 126

X. A SOLDIER 144

XI. SCOUTING 156

XII. MISSED FROM HOME 170

XIII. THE MARCH 175

XIV. THE BATTLE 180

XV. SHOWING WHAT HE WAS MADE OF 190

XVI. HONOR TO THE BRAVE 200

XVI