On the blockade
By: by Oliver Optic ; with illustrations by L. Bridgman.
Contributors: Bridgman, L. J. 1857-1931, ill.
Series: The Blue and the Gray series
Publisher: Lost Classics Book Company
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lake Wales, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Steamboats -- Fiction; Spies -- Fiction; War -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In command of a steamer on which he discovers Confederate spies, Christy Passford tries to intercept two new gunboats traveling from England to the South, then assists in an attempt to stop blockade runners operating out of Florida's Cedar Keys.
Notes: "Includes a Build-Your-Vocabulary Glossary of some 292 words and definitions."--Cover, p.4.
Sequel to:  Within the enemy's lines.
Sequel:  Stand by the Union.