Captain Sam (Illustrated): The Boy Scouts of 1814

by George Cary Eggleston

Overview

Captain Sam is the second volume in The Big Brother Series. Sam and the boys are still involved in the war of 1812, and they face numerous dangers and adventures along the way. Captain Sam is a better role model than the hero of most young-adult stories.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186724605
Publisher:	New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876
Publication date:	06/09/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

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).