1905. Eggleston, noted for both his fiction and nonfiction work, was a native of Indiana but threw in his lot with the Confederacy, serving on the staff of General J.E.B. Stuart in the First Virginia Cavalry and later as a Sergeant with an artillery battery in South Carolina. A Daughter of the South is set during the final year of the War Between the States, this is a classic tale of a damsel in distress. After her home is destroyed by marauding Negro soldiers in blue, Gabrielle, a beautiful young Louisiana woman, encounters Hugh Marvin, a dapper Kentucky gentleman who has refused to take sides with either North or South. What ensues is a charming romance reflective of the innocence and high moral standards of the nineteenth-century South. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.