George Cary Eggleston American author and brother of fellow author Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston was an American historian and novelist.-Biography:Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana, to Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. As a child, he was too ill to regularly attend school, so his education was primarily provided by his father. He became an ordained Methodist...

 (1837-1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in the The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,...

. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections."

Principal Works

Novels

• A Man of Honor 1873
• Juggernaut 1891
• Camp Venture, a story of the Virginia mountains [1901]
• A Carolina Cavalier, a Romance of the American Revolution [1902]
• Dorothy South 1902
• The Master of Warlock; a Virginia War Story [1903]
• Evelyn Byrd 1904
• Blind Alleys [1906]
• Irene of the mountains; a romance of old Virginia [1909]

Juvenile Publications

• Big Brother Series 1875-1882
• Strange Stories from History 1886

Miscellaneous

• How to Educate Yourself: With or Without Masters 1872
• A Rebel's Recollections 1874
• How to Make a Living: Suggestions Upon the Art of Making, Saving, and Using Money 1875
• The First of the Hoosiers: Reminiscences of Edward Eggleston 1903
• Recollections of a Varied Life 1910
• The History of the Confederate War 1910

External links

• A Rebel's Recollections. New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): The Riverside Press, 1875, c1874.