The Southerner. Jr. Thomas Dixon
LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY
1809–1818
Scene: A Cabin in the Woods
Tom, A Man of the Forest and Stream.
Nancy, The Woman Who Saw a Vision.
The Boy, Her Son.
Dennis, His Cousin.
Boney, A Fighting Coon Dog.
1861–1865
Scene: The White House
Senator Gilbert Winter, The Radical Leader.
Betty, His Daughter.
John Vaughan, A Union Soldier.
Ned Vaughan, His Brother, a Rebel.
Abraham Lincoln, The President.
Mrs. Lincoln, His Wife.
Phœbe, Her Maid.
Julius Cæsar Thornton, Who Was Volunteered.
Colonel Nicolay, The President's Secretary.
Major John Hay, Assistant Secretary.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Who Stole a March.
George B. McClellan, The Man on Horseback.
Robert E. Lee, The Southern Commander.
THE SOUTHERNER
PROLOGUE
I
Tom seated himself at the table and looked into his wife's face with a smile:
"Nancy, it's a meal fit for a king!"
The supper over, he smoked his pipe before the cabin fire of blazing logs, while she cleared the wooden dishes. He watched her get