![]() Equally has it resisted temptation to touch on many topics-not strictly belonging inside the Southern Capitals-still vexed by political agitation, or personal interest. This volume aspires neither to the height of history, nor to the depths of political analysis for it may still be too early for either, or for both, of these. In years past, some of their crude predecessors have appeared-as random articles-in the columns of the MobileĮven in their present condensation and revision, they claim only to be simple memoranda of the result of great events and of their reaction upon the mental and moral tone of the southern people, rather than a record of those events themselves. 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. Transcriber's Note: The advertisement and press comments for the author's bookįortunate, indeed, is the reader who takes up a volume without preface of which the persons are left to enact their own drama and the author does not come before the curtain, like the chorus of Greek tragedy, to speak for them.īut, in printing the pages that follow, it may seem needful to ask that they be taken for what they are simple sketches of the inner life of "Rebeldom"-behind its Chinese wall of wood and steel-during those unexampled four years of its existence. In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.ĪS ONE LITTLE TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF A LIFE-WORK "I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign, nations and to the next ages."Įntered according to act of Congress, in the year 1890, Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online DistributedįROM ORIGINAL NOTES, COLLATED IN THE YEARS 1861 TO 1865,ĪUTHOR OF "CREOLE AND PURITAN," "CROSS PURPOSES," "JUNY," ETC. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOUR YEARS IN REBEL CAPITALS *** With this eBook or online at Title: Four Years in Rebel CapitalsĪn Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Four Years in Rebel Capitals, by T. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Four Years In Rebel Capitals, by T. ![]()
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