Andersonville violets
Subtitle: a story of Northern and Southern life
By: Herbert W. Collingwood ; introduction by David Rachels and Robert Baird.
Contributors: United States Civil War Center.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Classics of Civil War fiction
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Andersonville Prison -- Fiction; Prisoners of war -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; Andersonville (Ga.) -- Fiction; Mississippi -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When John Rockwell, a Yankee captive at Andersonville, reaches across the prison's "dead line" to pluck a bunch of violets, Confederate guard Jack Foster is supposed to shoot him. Conflicted over thoughts of Lucy Moore, his girl back home, Foster lowers his gun. Spared, Rockwell lives to escape Andersonville, and Foster is discharged in disgrace." "After the war, Rockwell's ambitions lead him to take charge of a rundown plantation in Foster's native Mississippi, where the prisoner and guard find their paths crossing once again."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxviii).
Originally published in 1889 by Lee and Shepard Publishers.
"Published in cooperation with the United States Civil War Center."