John William De Forest

Beginning in 1866, John William De Forest served fifteen months as an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, South Carolina. After he left the army, he wrote a series of magazine articles about the bureau's operation as it intersected with the daily lives of freedmen. In 1948 the articles were compiled in A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, which offers a deft analysis of the structure of southern society after the war. - Publisher.

A narrative of service in the 12th regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry.

Miss Lillie Ravenel of New Orleans must choose between Captain Edward Colburne of "Barataria" (a thinly disguised Connecticut) and Colonel Carter of Virginia in this first realistic American novel of the Civil War.