Chapter I: Front Matter

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A
Rebel's Recollections

By
George Cary Eggleston

Author of "Dorothy South," "A Captain in the Ranks,"
"Running the River," etc.

Fourth Edition, with an additional chapter on the
Old Régime in the Old Dominion

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1905

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

Copyright, 1905
by
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON

DEDICATION.

I wish to dedicate this book to my brother, EDWARD EGGLESTON; and
even if there were no motives of affection impelling me thereto,
I should still feel bound to inscribe his name upon this page, as
an act of justice, in order that those critics who confounded me
with him, when I put forth a little novel a year ago, may have no
chance to hold him responsible for my political as they did for
my literary sins.