Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secessions to Loyalty

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Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Books Ltd
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Summary

Drawing on his own combat experience in the Union forces, John W. De Forest crafted a war novel like nothing before it in the annals of American literature. As captain in the 12th Connecticut Regimental Volunteers, De Forest joined in the battles of Georgia Landing and Bisland and in the siege of Port Hudson in Louisiana in 1862-63, and he saw action in Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign in 1864. His first hand knowledge of "the wilderness of death" made its way onto the pages of his riveting novel with devastating effect. Whether depicting the tedium before combat, the unspoken horror of battle, or the grisly butchery of the field hospital, De Forest broke new ground, anticipating the realistic war writings of Hemingway, Mailer and Tim O'Brien.

Author Biography

Gary Scharnhorst is editor of American Literary Realism and editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Suggestions for Further Reading xxxv
A Note on the Text xxxix
Miss Ravenel'S Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
Mr. Edward Colburne becomes acquainted with Miss Lillie Ravenel
3(11)
Miss Ravenel becomes acquainted with Lieutenant-Colonel Carter
14(13)
Mr. Colburne takes a Segar with Lieutenant-Colonel Carter
27(9)
The Dramatic Personages go on a Pic-nic, and study the Ways of New Boston
36(14)
The Dramatic Personages get News from Bull Run
50(11)
Mr. Colburne sees his Way clear to be a Soldier
61(11)
Captain Colburne raises a Company, and Colonel Carter a Regiment
72(14)
The Brave bid Good-bye to the Fair
86(12)
From New Boston to New Orleans, via Fort Jackson
98(12)
The Ravenels find Captain Colburne in good Quarters
110(15)
New Orleans Life and New Orleans Ladies
125(15)
Colonel Carter befriends the Ravenels
140(14)
The Course of True Love begins to run rough
154(15)
Lillie chooses for herself
169(11)
Lillie bids Good-bye to the Lover whom she has chosen, and to the Lover whom she would not choose
180(13)
Colonel Carter gains one Victory, and Miss Ravenel another
193(13)
Colonel Carter is entirely victorious before he begins his Campaign
206(13)
Doctor Ravenel commences the Reorganization of Southern Labor
219(13)
The Reorganization of Southern Labor is continued with Vigor
232(13)
Captain Colburne marches and fights with Credit
245(13)
Captain Colburne has Occasion to see Life in a Hospital
258(13)
Captain Colburne re-enforces the Ravenels in Time to aid them in running away
271(14)
Captain Colburne covers the Retreat of the Southern Labor Organization
285(13)
A desperate Attack and a successful Defence
298(11)
Domestic Happiness in spite of adverse Circumstances
309(13)
Captain Colburne describes Camp and Field Life
322(10)
Colonel Carter makes an Astronomical Expedition with a dangerous Fellow-traveller
332(13)
The Colonel continues to be led into Temptation
345(15)
Lillie reaches the Apotheosis of Womanhood
360(12)
Colonel Carter commits his first ungentlemanly Action
372(12)
A Torture which might have been spared
384(12)
A most logical Conclusion
396(17)
Lillie devotes herself entirely to the Rising Generation
413(13)
Lillie's Attention is recalled to the Rising Generation
426(14)
Captain Colburne as Mr. Colburne
440(13)
A Brace of Offers
453(12)
A Marriage
465(6)
Explanatory Notes 471

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