The Desolate South 1865-1866

by John Townsend Trowbridge

Book by John T. Trowbridge

Genres: Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

John Townsend Trowbridge was a novelist and poet who often published under the under pseudonym Paul Creyton. His papers are located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

Reviews

[John Lomnicki, · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compliments of my local library, Gutenberg Pro and my iPad, I was able to enjoy this out of print volume. I was skeptical that the prose would be tedious, yet the contrary, this was a compelling story with observations of how people lived and thought as well as their desolation and optimism. It was humorous, yet sad seeing from the viewpoint of the author how the conditions actually existed. The time of the Presidency after Lincoln’s death and subsequent political and ethical squabbles finally were making sense. I highly recommend this book as a way to understand the war and its aftermath as well as how people actually feel about the war.