A Yankee Girl at Antietam

								


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                       A Yankee Girl at Antietam

A YANKEE GIRL

                                   AT

                                ANTIETAM



                                   By

                          Alice Turner Curtis



                               Author of



                    “A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter,”

                    “A Yankee Girl at Bull Run,”

                    “A Yankee Girl at Shiloh”



                      Illustrated by NAT LITTLE



                          THE PENN PUBLISHING

                          COMPANY PHILADELPHIA

                                  1923

                             COPYRIGHT 1923

                     BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY



                       A Yankee Girl at Antietam



                          Manufacturing Plant

                             Camden, N. J.



                          Made in the U. S. A.

                                CONTENTS



                        I. Roxy and Polly

                       II. Polly’s Return

                      III. A Paper Circus

                       IV. Signals

                        V. New Adventures

                       VI. Roxy Makes New Friends

                      VII. A Rainy Day

                     VIII. Following the Brook

                       IX. Under the Sycamore

                        X. Polly’s News

                       XI. A Triumphal Arch

                      XII. Startling News

                     XIII. September Sixth

                      XIV. Roxy Taken Prisoner

                       XV. Roxy’s Ride to Sharpsburg

                      XVI. The Battle of Antietam

                     XVII. Polly’s Plan

                    XVIII. A Visitor

                             Illustrations



        Roxy Was Too Surprised to Move

        The Little Girl Looked from Her Mother to Her Grandmother

        He Lifted Her to the Saddle in Front of Him

                       A Yankee Girl at Antietam

                               CHAPTER I



                             ROXY AND POLLY

Roxana Delfield, wearing a dress of blue-checked gingham, stout leather
shoes and white stockings, and a broad-rimmed hat of rough straw, ran
down the narrow path that led from her Grandmother Miller’s farm to the
highway leading to the little village of Antietam, Maryland.
The path curved about a rocky ledge, skirted a group of small cedar
trees and reached a stone wall where there was an opening just wide
enough for one person to squeeze through. Roxy thought it was a
fortunate thing that all the people at her Grandmother Miller’s were
thin enough to get through this opening, all except Dulcie, the negro