X. AN UNBEATEN FOE

XI. CEDAR CREEK

XII. IN THE COVE

XIII. DICK'S GREAT EXPLOIT

XIV. THE MOUNTAIN SHARPSHOOTER

XV. BACK WITH GRANT

XVI. THE CLOSING DAYS

XVII. APPOMATTOX

XVIII. THE FINAL RECKONING




CHAPTER I

THE APPLE TREE


Although he was an officer in full uniform he was a youth in years,
and he had the spirits of youth. Moreover, it was one of the finest
apple trees he had ever seen and the apples hung everywhere, round,
ripe and red, fairly asking to be taken and eaten. Dick Mason looked up