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A YANKEE GIRL

AT

FORT SUMTER

BY

ALICE TURNER CURTIS

AUTHOR OF

The Little Maid's Historical Series, etc.

Illustrated by ISABEL W. CALEY

PHILADELPHIA

1920

INTRODUCTION

Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father andmother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just beforethe opening of the Civil War. She had become deeply attached to her newfriends, and their chivalrous kindness toward the little northern girl,as well as Sylvia's perilous adventure in Charleston Harbor, and theamusing efforts of the faithful negro girl to become like her youngmistress, all tend to make this story one that every little girl willenjoy reading, and from which she will learn of far-off days and of thehigh ideals of southern honor and northern courage.

I. SYLVIA

II. A NEW FRIEND

III. SYLVIA IN TROUBLE

IV. AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

V. ESTRALLA AND ELINOR

VI. SYLVIA AT THE PLANTATION

VII. SYLVIA SEES A GHOST

VIII. A TWILIGHT TEA-PARTY

IX. TROUBLESOME WORDS

X. THE PALMETTO FLAG

XI. SYLVIA CARRIES A MESSAGE

XII. ESTRALLA HELPS

XIII. A HAPPY AFTERNOON

XIV. MR. ROBERT WAITE

XV. "WHERE IS SYLVIA?"

XVI. IN DANGER

XVII. A CHRISTMAS PRESENT

XVIII. GREAT NEWS

XIX. SYLVIA MAKES A PROMISE

XX. "TWO LITTLE DARKY GIRLS"

XXI. FORT SUMTER IS FIRED UPON

CHAPTER I

SYLVIA

"Your name is in a song, isn't it?" said Grace Waite, as she and hernew playmate, Sylvia Fulton, walked down the pleasant street on theirway to school.

"Is it? Can you sing the song?" questioned Sylvia eagerly, her blueeyes shining at what promised to be such a delightful discovery.

Grace nodded smilingly. She was a year older than Sylvia, nearly elevenyears old, and felt that it was quite proper that she should be able toexplain to Sylvia more about her name than Sylvia knew herself.

"It is something about 'spelling,'" she explained, and then sang, verysoftly:

   "'Then to Sylvia let us sing,
       That Sylvia is spelling.
     She excels each mortal thing,
       Upon the dull earth dwelling.'

"I suppose it means she was the best speller," Grace said soberly.

"I think it is a lovely song," said Sylvia. "I'll tell my mother aboutit. I am so glad you told me, Grace."

Sylvia Fulton was ten years old, and had lived in Charleston, SouthCarolina, for the past year. Before that the Fultons had lived inBoston. Grace Waite lived in the house next to the one which Mr. Fultonhad hired in the beautiful southern city, and the two little girls hadbecome fast frien

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