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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

""A Lieutenant at Eighteen"" is a historical fiction novel written by Oliver Optic and published in 1895. The story takes place during the American Civil War and follows the adventures of a young man named Phil Farringford. Phil is just eighteen years old when he joins the Union... Read Full Overview

"A Lieutenant at Eighteen" from William Taylor Adams. Pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic and author (1822-1897).

"A Lieutenant at Eighteen" from Oliver Optic. Noted academic, author, and Massachusetts state legislator (1822-1897).

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our... Read Full Overview

William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 - March 27, 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Adams first began to write at the age of 28, and his first book, Hatchie, the Guardian Slave (1853), was published... Read Full Overview

"Are you an honest man, sir?" asked a very pretty young woman, not more than twenty years old, as she stopped in the open field in front of Sergeant Life Knox of the Riverlawn Cavalry, as it was generally called, though the squadron belonged to a numbered regiment in Kentucky... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpterful Kentuckian; and he concluded at once that it must contain a considerable amount of gold. In the distracted condition of the State very few had any confidence in the banks, and some had turned their bills into coin for any emergency that might arise. Before he... Read Full Overview