Brother Against Brother — Oliver Optic

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. TROUBLESOME TIMES IN KENTUCKY CHAPTER II. SOMETHING ABOUT THE LYON FAMILY CHAPTER III. A NORTHERN FAMILY IN KENTUCKY CHAPTER IV. THE ARRIVAL AND WELCOME AT RIVERLAWN CHAPTER V. THE DISTRESS OF MRS. TITUS LYON CHAPTER VI. THE NIGHT ADVENTURE ON THE CREEK CHAPTER VII. A STORMY INTERVIEW ON THE BRIDGE CHAPTER VIII. AN OVERWHELMING ARGUMENT CHAPTER IX. A MOST UNREASONABLE BROTHER CHAPTER X. THE SINK-CAVERN NEAR BAR CREEK CHAPTER XI. AROUSED TO THE SOLEMN DUTY OF THE HOUR CHAPTER XII. THE NIGHT EXPEDITION IN THE MAGNOLIA CHAPTER XIII. AT THE HEAD WATERS OF BAR CREEK CHAPTER XIV. THE TRANSPORTATION OF THE ARMS CHAPTER XV. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FORT BEDFORD CHAPTER XVI. THE UNION MEETING AT BIG BEND CHAPTER XVII. THE EJECTION OF THE NOISY RUFFIANS CHAPTER XVIII. THE DEMAND OF CAPTAIN TITUS LYON CHAPTER XIX. THE CONFERENCE IN FORT BEDFORD CHAPTER XX. THE APPROACH OF THE RUFFIAN FORCES CHAPTER XXI. THE BEGINNING OF HOSTILITIES CHAPTER XXII. THE FIRST SHOT FROM FORT BEDFORD CHAPTER XXIII. THE PARTY ATTACKED IN THE CROSS-CUT CHAPTER XXIV. THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE RUFFIANS CHAPTER XXV. THE GRATITUDE OF TWO FAIR MAIDENS CHAPTER XXVI. THE SKIRMISH ON THE NEW ROAD CHAPTER XXVII. AN UNEXPLAINED GATHERING ON THE ROAD CHAPTER XXVIII. THE RESULT OF THE FLANK MOVEMENT CHAPTER XXIX. THE HUMILIATING RETREAT OF THE RUFFIANS CHAPTER XXX. LEVI BEDFORD AND HIS PRISONER CHAPTER XXXI. DR. FALKIRK VISITS RIVERLAWN CHAPTER XXXII. THE ARRIVAL OF THE RECRUITING OFFICER CHAPTER XXXIII. ONE AGAINST THREE ON THE ROAD CHAPTER XXXIV. THE FIRE THAT WAS STARTED AT RIVERLAWN CHAPTER XXXV. A BATTLE IN PROSPECT ON THE CREEK CHAPTER XXXVI. THE SECOND BATTLE OF RIVERLAWNCHAPTER ITROUBLESOME TIMES IN KENTUCKYNeutrality! There is no such thing as neutrality in the presentsituation, my son! protested Noah Lyon to the stout boy of sixteen whostood in front of him on the bridge over Bar Creek, in the State ofKentucky. He that is not for the Union is against it. No man can servetwo masters, Dexter.That is just what I was saying to Sandy, replied the boy, whomeverybody but his father and mother called Deck.Your Cousin Alexander takes after his father, who is my own brother;but I must say I am ashamed of him, for he is a rank Secessionist,continued Noah Lyon, fixing his gaze on the planks of the bridge, andlooking as grieved as though one of his own blood had turned againsthim. He was born and brought up in New Hampshire, where about all thepeople believe in the Union as they do in their own mothers, and atraitor would be ridden on a rail out of almost any town within itsborders.Well, it isn't so down here in the State of Kentucky, father, answeredDeck.