Wild Southern Scenes, A Tale of Disunion! and Border War! (Illustrated)

Imagine if someone wrote a novel about the American Civil War before it ever happened—before the election of the anti-slavery Republican Party's first president, Abraham Lincoln; before the secession of the Southern states; before the outbreak of hostilities. While a work of fiction can never carry the weight of the carefully researched and documented work of professional historians, intangibles like moods, fears, prejudices, and personal entanglements can arguably be better expressed by th...