George Cary Eggleston
George Cary Eggleston (26 November 1839 – 14 April 1911) American author and brother of fellow author Edward Eggleston (1837–1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in The Atlantic Monthly. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections."
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George Cary Eggleston
He also served as an editor of Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s.[1]
His boyhood home at Vevay, Indiana, known as the Edward and George Cary Eggleston House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[2]
Principal Works
Novels
- A Man of Honor (1873, first serialized in Hearth and Home)
- The Wreck of the Red Bird (1882)
- Juggernaut (1891, with Dolores Bacon)
- Camp Venture, a story of the Virginia mountains (1901)
- A Carolina Cavalier, a Romance of the American Revolution (1902)
- Dorothy South (1902)
- The Master of Warlock; a Virginia War Story (1903)
- Evelyn Byrd (1904)
- Love is the Sum of It All (1907)
- Blind Alleys (1906)
- Irene of the Mountains; a Romance of Old Virginia (1909)
- Westover of Wanalah (1910)
Juvenile Publications
- Big Brother Series (1875–1882)
- Strange Stories from History (1886)
Miscellaneous
- How to Educate Yourself: With or Without Masters (1872)
- A Rebel's Recollections (1874)
- How to Make a Living: Suggestions Upon the Art of Making, Saving, and Using Money (1875)
- Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama (1878)
- The First of the Hoosiers: Reminiscences of Edward Eggleston (1903)
- Recollections of a Varied Life (1910)
- The History of the Confederate War (1910)
References
- Eggleston, George Cary. Recollections of a Varied Life, pp. 131-33 (1910)
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- "Eggleston, George Cary" American Authors 1600-1900 The H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1938
External links
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- A Rebel's Recollections. New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): The Riverside Press, 1875, c1874.
- George Cary Eggleston - The Authors - The Atlantic
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