Andersonville Violets: A Story of Northern and Southern Life
Author: first_name: Herbert W.
last_name: Collingwood
Language: English
Year: 1889

Herbert W. Collingwood has given us such volumes as Hope Farm Notes and Adventures in Silence.  With an elegant, accessible style, he gives us a rare account of the culture of post Civil War in the United States.  He seems to have seen things which others have missed.  From his preface: 

The writer has long felt that a story of Northern and Southern life might be written that would present food for sound and healthful thought, unblinded by partisan feeling or sectional hatred.  A story of And