Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyaltyby John William DeForest | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Historical" |
| Pages: | 521 |
| Year of Publication: | 1867 |
| Date Added: | 03/03/1999 |
| Date Read: | 02/22/1998 |
| Notes: | Southern sympathizer, Miss Lillie Ravenel, lives in New Orleans with her father during the Union occupation. She is loved by Union officer, Captain Colburne, but instead married the hard-drinking, loose-living Colonel Carter. Her husband’s behavior forces Lillie and her father to flee to New York where Colburne looks her up after the war. COMMENTS — DeForest served as a captain in the U.S. Army in several Civil War campaigns and, after the war, was district commander of the Freedmans’ Bureau, the agency that dealt with former slaves. |
| My Rating: | 7 |