Lieutenant Philip Nolan, caught up in Aaron Burr’s conspiracy, curses the United States at his court-martial and is sentenced never to hear its name again, spending the rest of his life passed from navy ship to navy ship. Hale wrote it in 1863 to rouse loyalty to the Union. The volume adds his other tales, including My Double, and How He Undid Me and The Skeleton in the Closet.
The title story remains one of the best-known pieces of American short fiction of the Civil War years. Download the free EPUB.