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Project Gutenberg's Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter, by Alice Turner CurtisCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check thecopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributingthis or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this ProjectGutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit theheader without written permission.Please read the "legal small print," and other information about theeBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included isimportant information about your specific rights and restrictions inhow the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make adonation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971*******These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****Title: Yankee Girl at Fort SumterAuthor: Alice Turner CurtisRelease Date: May, 2004 [EBook #5696][Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule][This file was first posted on August 9, 2002]Edition: 10Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ASCII*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YANKEE GIRL AT FORT SUMTER ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Rose Koven, Charles Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.A YANKEE GIRLATFORT SUMTERBYALICE TURNER CURTIS
 
AUTHOR OFThe Little Maid's Historical Series, etc.Illustrated by ISABEL W. CALEYPHILADELPHIA1920INTRODUCTIONSylvia 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. SYLVIAII. A NEW FRIENDIII. SYLVIA IN TROUBLEIV. AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEYV. ESTRALLA AND ELINORVI. SYLVIA AT THE PLANTATIONVII. SYLVIA SEES A GHOSTVIII. A TWILIGHT TEA-PARTYIX. TROUBLESOME WORDSX. THE PALMETTO FLAGXI. SYLVIA CARRIES A MESSAGEXII. ESTRALLA HELPSXIII. A HAPPY AFTERNOONXIV. MR. ROBERT WAITEXV. "WHERE IS SYLVIA?"XVI. IN DANGER
 
XVII. A CHRISTMAS PRESENTXVIII. GREAT NEWSXIX. SYLVIA MAKES A PROMISEXX. "TWO LITTLE DARKY GIRLS"XXI. FORT SUMTER IS FIRED UPONCHAPTER ISYLVIA"Your name is in a song, isn't it?" said Grace Waite, as she and her newplaymate, Sylvia Fulton, walked down the pleasant street on their way toschool."Is it? Can you sing the song?" questioned Sylvia eagerly, her blue eyesshining 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 friends. They both attended Miss Patten's school. UsuallyGrace's black mammy, Esther, escorted them to and from Miss Patten's,but on this morning in early October they were allowed to go bythemselves.As they walked along they could look out across the blue harbor, and seesailing vessels and rowboats coming and going. In the distance were thethree forts whose historic names were known to every child inCharleston. Grace never failed to point them out to the little northerngirl, and to repeat their names:"Castle Pinckney," she would say, pointing to the one nearest the city,
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