In 1865 and 1866 J. T. Trowbridge spent four months travelling through eight of the former Confederate states by rail, steamboat and stage. He walked the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam, talked with planters, soldiers of both sides, poor whites and freedpeople, and recorded the wreckage of the war and the uneasy early work of Reconstruction.
One of the fullest eyewitness portraits of the post-war South, invaluable for readers of Reconstruction history. Download the free EPUB.