The Border Spy & The Prisoner of the Mill

Two Civil War dime novels in one volume, both composed by a veteran of the conflict and published during the war. In the fall of 1861, Union forces in southwest Missouri are closing in on Confederate forces. Both sides are engaged in intensive spying and counter-spying throughout the rugged Ozark country. The Border Spy tells the tale of a Federal Army soldier and his sister who fall into the hands of a Rebel officer bent on revenge, and their friends must race against time to save them. In The Prisoner of the Mill, a Union officer vanishes under mysterious circumstances. His best friend and his sister undertake a dangerous quest to find out what happened and who is responsible for his disappearance.