Word: appomattox
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...will be issued during the coming spring by the Macmillan Company. The book deals with the life of the Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents a sympathetic picture of that period, when the old civilization was giving way before the drastic...
...short contribution, "A Widow of Appomattox to her Son," there is little to say. A faithful mother tells to her son, who is with the Confederate army in the defenses at Petersburg, the vision she has had of his safe return to her side at Appomattox. There is deep pathos in the story...