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Title: Four Years in Rebel Capitals
An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

Author: T. C. DeLeon

Release Date: September 12, 2007 [EBook #22584]

Language: English

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FOUR YEARS IN REBEL CAPITALS:

_AN INSIDE VIEW OF
LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY,
FROM BIRTH TO DEATH_

FROM ORIGINAL NOTES, COLLATED IN THE YEARS 1861 TO 1865,

BY T. C. DELEON,

AUTHOR OF "CREOLE AND PURITAN," "CROSS PURPOSES," "JUNY," ETC.

"In the land where we were dreaming!"
--_D. B. Lucas._

"I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign, nations and
to the next ages."
--_Francis Bacon._

MOBILE, ALA.
THE GOSSIP PRINTING COMPANY.

1890.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1890,
By THE GOSSIP PRINTING COMPANY,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

TO MY VALUED FRIEND,

MRS. AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON,

AS ONE LITTLE TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF A LIFE-WORK
DEDICATE TO HER SEX, TO HER SECTION
AND TO TRUTH,

THESE SKETCHES

OF LIFE BEHIND OUR CHINESE WALL
ARE INSCRIBED.

Transcriber's Note: The advertisement with press comments for the
author's book _Juny: or Only One Girl's Story_ has been moved to
the end of this text.

IN PLACE OF PREFACE.

Fortunate, indeed, is the reader who takes up a volume without preface;
of which the persons are left to enact their own drama and the author
does not come before the curtain, like the chorus of Greek tragedy, to
speak for them.

But, in printing the pages that follow, it may seem needful to ask that
they be taken for what they are; simple sketches of the inner life of
"Rebeldom"--behind its Chinese wall of wood and steel--during those
unexampled four years of its existence.

Written almost immediately after the war, from notes and