Southern Soldier Stories - (Illustrated)

by George Cary Eggleston

Overview

Southern Soldier Stories is a volume of short stories combining fictional sketches and Eggleston's actual experiences as a soldier in the American Civil War. Eggleston includes reminders that, at the end of the day, northern and southern soldiers were much alike as Americans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789682039973
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	09/26/2022
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

George Cary Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana, on November 26, 1839. His older brother, Edward Eggleston, was also a writer and is more widely known than George. When the boys were quite young, their father died, leaving their mother to raise four children. He joined the Confederate Army, and his work, A Rebel’s Recollections (1875), first published as a series of papers, was written about his experiences during the Civil War.

Eggleston was quite prolific outside of his journalistic and editorial career, writing novels, histories, biographies, and an autobiography. Much of his writing was set in Virginia and South Carolina and centered around Civil War era pioneering life and romance (Our Land, Our Literature).