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Harry Castlemon
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Harry Castlemon
Charles Austin Fosdick, better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for boys in the post-Civil War era, the golden
Frank on the Lower Mississippi
Frank on a Gun-Boat
Frank, the Young Naturalist
A Struggle for a Fortune
A Sailor in Spite of Himself
A Rebellion in Dixie
Carl the Trailer
Elam Storm, the Wolfer; Or, The Lost Nugget
Marcy the Blockade Runner
The Boy Trapper
Rodney, the Partisan
True To His Colors
George at the Fort; Or, Life Among the Soldiers
Frank among the Rancheros
Frank in the Woods
Frank in the Mountains
Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons
George in Camp; or, Life on the Plains
The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England
Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho
Frank on the Prairie
The Haunted Mine
No Moss; Or, The Career of a Rolling Stone
