Chapter VI: Part 6

“Katy of Catoctin,” now just published, is a stirring national
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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

- Page number notes removed from illustration pages.
- p81 ‘any objecion’ changed to ‘any objection’.
- p148 ‘the head, general’ changed to ‘the head general’.
- p174 ‘the seige is over’ changed to ‘the siege is over’.
- p211 ‘at priscnt from’ changed to ‘at prisent from’.
- p214 ‘beleive the daylight’ changed to ‘believe the daylight’.