In the canon
Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
John William De Forest
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1867
- Pages
- Pages 470
The first American novel to tell the truth about a battlefield was written by a man who had stood on one. John William De Forest carried a captain's commission through Louisiana and the Shenandoah, and he brought home what fiction had been too well mannered to print: the men who run, the surgeons working in blood to the elbow, the look of a wound when nobody is being noble about it.
No volcanic eruption rends a mountain without stirring the existence of the mountain's mice.
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