Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Kathie's Soldiers. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Amanda Minnie Douglas, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Kathie's Soldiers in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Kathie's Soldiers: Look inside the book: 'Why,—the whole thing,'—and Rob made a little pause to think, though it did not seem half so funny now as out on the street with a crowd of boys, who had been singing at the top of their lungs, 'John Brown's Body,' and 'My Johnny has gone for a Soldier,'—'the surprise, Uncle Robert, when some of the fellows who have been skulking back and afraid to go find themselves compelled.' ...It is one thing to go out as a mounted officer, in glittering uniform, with a servant to wait upon you, and if you fall in battle to have whole cities weep your loss, and quite another to tramp as41 a common soldier, often weary and footsore, to be subject to the caprice of those in authority, to work night and day sometimes, to stand in the front rank and be swept down by a terrific charge, be trampled under foot and thrown into a nameless grave, perhaps forever lost to your kindred. ...'It is not because I am so proud of Cedarwood, or the handsome things in it,' she explained to Uncle Robert, 'though I do think them all very lovely; but it will be such a pleasure to her,—just as my going to Miss Jessie's when we were so poor.'

"[...]escaped an imminent and deadly peril. And there is something in the simplest act of chivalry that touches one's soul. "It was so good in Mr. Morrison to think of you," Rob said, after a while. "Yes; going farther back, I don't know but we owe it all to Kathie. If she had not thought of our trusty and efficient gardener, we should never have known his brother. The lodge has made a charming home for them, and they feel deeply grateful." "It is worse to go away to war than I imagined," Rob continued, gravely following out his own musings. "You have been looking at the glory and listening to the music, my boy; but there is quite another side to it. It is one thing to go out as a mounted officer, in glittering uniform, with a servant to wait upon you, and if you fall in battle to have whole cities weep your loss, and quite another to tramp as a common soldier, often weary and footsore, to be subject to the caprice of those in authority, to work night and day[...]".