Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures among the Rebels

Published originally in 1862, early in the American Civil War, the causes and effects of which are its subject, this book is somewhat unusual, representing as it does that intermediate position of citizens living amidst the Southern Confederacy of rebels that instigated the American Civil war; namely, the position of a Southern supporter of the institution of slavery who nevertheless passionately sided with the Unionist Federal side in the war. There were many more of these sympathizers wit...