A Union veteran keeps a national cemetery for the Northern dead in the defeated South; a Spanish nun endures a Florida key; a young man is drawn into the lush, deadly swamp called the South Devil. Woolson wrote these stories during six years in the Reconstruction South, and they linger over decaying plantations, cotton country and the bitterness left by war.
Subtle, atmospheric stories that rank with the best regional writing of the 1870s, by a friend and peer of Henry James. Download the free EPUB.