Within the enemy's lines

By Oliver Optic

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

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.