Six stories of Virginia after the Civil War: a spinster cousin remembered every Christmas, a Confederate battery that buries its guns rather than give them up at Appomattox, the gray jacket of a private soldier, a proud society beauty and her roses, a captain’s Christmas, and a poor-white boy called Little Darby. Page writes with deep nostalgia for the old South.
Skilful regional fiction, but its idealised view of the Confederacy and plantation society is that of the Lost Cause and should be read critically. Download the free EPUB.