George Cary Eggleston was born in in Vevay, Indiana. In , he inherited his mother's family plantation in Amelia County, Virginia and spent nine years there. He attended Richmond College and practiced law until the outbreak of the Civil War. Although Eggleston argued against secession, once Virginia had voted to secede, he pledged his loyalty to the Confederacy. Eggelston is especially vitriolic in his criticism of President Jefferson Davis which may explain why A Rebel's Recollections, was not on the list of approved books by the United Confederate Veterans not the Daughters of the Confederacy because by the time of it first publishing Davis had achieved martyrdom in the eyes of most southerners/5(6). · Overview. Originally published in , George Cary Eggleston's memoir, which proved immensely popular among readers throughout the country, is a nostalgic, often amusing collection of essays based on the author's Civil War bltadwin.ruton describes life in Virginia before the war, offers glowing assessments of the men who made up the Confederate army and the women who ISBN
A Rebel's Recollections Hardcover - January 1, by George Cary Eggleston (Author) › Visit Amazon's George Cary Eggleston Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Are you an author? Learn about Author Central. George. A Rebel's Recollections. George Eggleston ( - ) George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia's citizenry before secession. The body of the work contains vivid descriptions and accounts of the men and women of the South during the time of the Confederacy. A Rebel's Recollections. George Cary Eggleston. $; $; Publisher Description. It was a very beautiful and enjoyable life that the Virginians led in that ancient time, for it certainly seems ages ago, before the war came to turn ideas upside down and convert the picturesque commonwealth into a commonplace, modern state. It was a soft.
librivox, audiobooks, LibriVox recording of A Rebel's Recollections by George Eggleston. Read in English by Lee Smalley. George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenry before secession. The body of the work contains vivid descriptions and accounts of the men and women of the South during the time of the Confederacy. A Rebel's Recollections. Originally published in , George Cary Eggleston's memoir, which proved immensely popular among readers throughout the country, is a nostalgic, often amusing collection of essays based on the author's Civil War bltadwin.ruton describes life in Virginia before the war, offers glowing assessments of the men who made up the Confederate army and the women who stood behind them, satirizes the Confederacy's finances and its army's red tape, and recollects the war. A Rebel's Recollections. New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): The Riverside Press, , c Confederate States of America -- History. Confederate States of America. Army -- Military life. Eggleston, George Cary, Southern States -- Social life and customs.
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