Four Years in Rebel Capitals

Four Years in Rebel Capitals Book Description

Written almost immediately after the war, from notes and recollections gathered during its most trying scenes, these papers are now revised, condensed, and formulated for the first time. Even in their present condensation and revision, they claim only to be simple memoranda of the reult of great events; and of their reaction upon the mental and moral tone of the southern peiople, rather than a record of those events themselves... The sole object kept in view was to paint honestly the inner life of the South; the general tone of her people, under strain and privation unparalleled; the gradual changes of society and character in the struggling nation- in a clear, unshaded outline of things as they were -- Provided by author.