Within the enemy's lines

By Oliver Optic

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Steamboats, War, fiction, Naval operations, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, War, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: After successfully defending his father's steam-yacht from a group of Confederates led by his cousin from Alabama, eighteen-year-old Christy Passford, a newly-commissioned Union naval officer, is assigned to that same yacht and sent to battle in the South.