Ransomed; or, A Prisoner of War (1910)
Making his departure from home. Captain Jack of the Confederate army, leaves to rejoin his regiment, but before doing so promises his boy that he will return to celebrate the little fellow's fifth birthday. One month later the Captain gets a leave of absence for three days and goes back to keep faith with his son. The house is watched by Union soldiers, and to enter it without being detected seems impossible. The birthday promise must be kept with little Ned, and after some reconnoitering the father succeeds in getting to his family with a few presents which he has purchased to make the boy happy and keep up the spirit of the occasion. The furlough is ended and the Captain must go back to the ranks. The question of getting safely through the Union lines is a puzzling one and the attempt to do so was arrested by the "Yankees," who make the Captain a prisoner of war. Word must be sent to his wife; it is accomplished through the kindness of a guard, who allows him to write a letter which he sends to the prisoner's family. They are grieved and the wife gives way under the strain and sorrow of it all. Not so with little Ned. He proves himself to be made of sterner stuff and profits by the example of his father. He starts for the Union camp, approaches the General and tells him of his father's home-coming to celebrate his fifth birthday and how he was taken prisoner when he was going back to his regiment. The boy then offers the General his little woolly lamb in exchange for his father's freedom. The General is convinced from the boy's story that the Captain was not acting the part of a spy when captured, and to humor the child accepts the woolly lamb and releases his father. Shortly after his release the war is closed, and the General sends little Ned a fine rocking horse In exchange for the woolly lamb, which he has always kept and cherished in memory of the boy who loves his father.
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