George Cary Eggleston

George Cary Eggleston

George Cary Eggleston (26 November,1839 – 14 April, 1911) was a U.S. writer. He was the son of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. He was also the brother of Edward Eggleston. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in the The Atlantic Monthly. 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
* "Dorothy South" 1902
* "Evelyn Byrd" 1904Juvenile Publications
* "Big Brother Series" 1875-1882
* "Strange Stories from History" 1886Miscellaneous
* "A Rebel's Recollections" 1874
* "The First of the Hoosiers: Reminiscences of Edward Eggleston" 1903
* "Recollections of a Varied Life" 1910
* "The History of the Confederate War" 1910

References

* "Eggleston, George Cary" "American Authors 1600-1900" The H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1938


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