Lillie Ravenel, a Southern girl whose father has fled New Orleans for his Unionist views, settles in the New England town of New Boston. There two men court her, the earnest young Edward Colburne and the dashing, dissolute Colonel Carter, and when war comes both march off to fight in Louisiana, where De Forest himself served.
Often called the first realistic novel of the Civil War, written while its smoke was still clearing. Download the free EPUB.