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Title: The Trials of the Soldier's Wife
A Tale of the Second American Revolution

Author: Alex St. Clair Abrams

Release Date: March 10, 2006 [EBook #17955]

Language: English

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THE TRIALS

OF

THE SOLDIER'S WIFE:

A TALE OF THE

SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

BY ALEX. ST. CLAIR ABRAMS.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA:

1864.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1864,

BY THE AUTHOR,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Confederate States
for the Northern District of Georgia.

DEDICATION

TO

COLONEL JOHN H. JOSSEY.

Of Macon, Georgia.

MY DEAR SIR--

Accept from me the dedication of this little work as a token of
appreciation for the kind friendship you have ever displayed towards
me. Wishing you all the happiness and prosperity that can fall to
mortal man, believe me.

Your Friend,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

The plot of this little work was first thought of by the writer in the
month of December, 1862, on hearing the story of a soldier from New
Orleans, who arrived from Camp Douglas just in time to see his wife
die at Jackso