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Title: Before the Dawn
A Story of the Fall of Richmond

Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21321]

Language: English

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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
A Herald of the West
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

CHAPTER PAGE

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 of Winter 97

IX. Robert and Lucia 117

X. Feeding the Hungry 131

XI. Mr. Sefton Makes a Confidence 137

XII. A Flight by Two 150

XIII. Lucia's Farewell 162

XIV. Prescott's Ordeal 170

XV. The Great Rivals 181

XVI. The Great Revival 193

XVII. The Wilderness 204

XVIII. Day in the Wilderness 206

XIX. Night in the Wilderness 223

XX. The Secretary Looks On 236

XXI. A