Four Years in Rebel Capitals

The subtitle says: an Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death. The author, T. C. DeLeon, points out beginning the book: Written almost immediately after the war, from notes and recollections gathered during its most trying scenes, these papers are now revised, condensed and formulated for the first time. In years past, some of their crude predecessors have appeared—as random articles—in the columns of the Mobile Sunday Times, Appleton's Journal, the Louisville Courier