'T was in Dixie

In sitting down to write this historical novel of our Civil War, I have tried to include a number of points in order to convey an interesting story, while at the same time supplying accurate historical dates, places, etc., etc.. But yes, you may well conjecture, "you are a Southerner". Yes that is true, for I am no less than a Southern Partisan to the very marrow of all my old bones. I feel that I was truly blessed to have been fashioned from the tough dirt of this, our Old South and yes, t...