Young Captain Jack The Son of a Soldier by Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Young Captain Jack, by Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield 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 atwww.gutenberg.org Title: Young Captain Jack The Son of a Soldier Author: Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield Release Date: January 23, 2007 [eBook #20432] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK*** E-text prepared by David Edwards and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) from page images and other digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the srcinal pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/youngcaptainjack00algerich The Project Gutenberg eBook, Young Captain Jack, by Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield 1 OUT OF MY WAY, BOY! AND NOW THE GUERRILLA RAISED HIS OWN SWORD. Frontispiece. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Young Captain Jack, by Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield E-text prepared by David Edwardsand the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team(http://www.pgdp. 2YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK OR YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK 3THE SON OF A SOLDIER BY HORATIO ALGER,Jr. AUTHOR OF OUT FOR BUSINESS, FALLING IN WITH FORTUNE, ADRIFT IN NEW YORK, TATTERED TOM, RAGGED DICK, ETC. COMPLETED BY ARTHUR M. WINFIELD AUTHOR OF THE ROVER BOYS SERIES, ETC. NEW YORK THE MERSHON COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1901, By THE MERSHON COMPANY. All rights reserved. PREFACE. Young Captain Jack relates the adventures of a boy waif, who is cast upon the Atlantic shore of one of our Southern States and taken into one of the leading families of the locality. The youth grows up as a member of the family, knowing little or nothing of his past. This is at the time of the Civil War, when the locality is in constant agitation, fearing that a battle will be fought in the immediate vicinity. During this time there appears upon the scene a Confederate surgeon who, for reasons of his own, claims Jack as his son. The youth has had trouble with this man and despises him. He cannot make himself believe that the surgeon is his parent and he refuses to leave his foster mother, who thinks the world of him. Many complications arise, but in the end the truth concerning the youth's identity is uncovered, and all ends happily for the young son of a soldier. In its srcinal shape Mr. Alger intended this tale of a soldier's son for a juvenile drama, and it is, therefore, full of dramatic situations. But it was not used as a play, and when the gifted author of so many boys' books had THE SON OF A SOLDIER 4