{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "After successfully defending his father's steam-yacht from a group of Confederates led by his cousin from Alabama, eighteen-year-old Christy Passford, a newly-commissioned Union naval officer, is assigned to that same yacht and sent to battle in the South."}, "title": "Within the enemy's lines", "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "covers": [938842], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "William Taylor Adams, American author, better known and loved by boys and girls through his pseudonym \"Oliver Optic,\" was born July 30, 1822, in the town of Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, about twenty-five miles from Boston."}, "subject_places": ["United States"], "first_publish_date": "1889", "key": "/works/OL1501560W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL160059A"}}], "subject_times": ["Civil War, 1861-1865"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "History", "Juvenile fiction", "Naval operations", "Steamboats", "United States Civil War, 1861-1865", "War", "Juvenile literature", "Children's fiction", "United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction", "War, fiction", "Children", "Conduct of life", "War stories", "Cousins", "Yachts", "Sailors", "Ship captains", "Prisoners of war", "Seafaring life"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T21:44:22.809342"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-04T01:22:13.264746"}}