Bristling With Thorns: A Story of War and Reconstruction
- Detroit: The Detroit News Company, 1884
Detroit: The Detroit News Company, 1884. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth, with titles decoratively stamped in gilt on spine; blue coated endpapers; 424pp. Front and rear endpapers cracked at hinges, with webbing exposed (but holding); text slightly tanned; still a Good, sound copy. With pencil annotation to title page: "Mrs. J D Foster Book bought on the way to Kansas, August the 3 1884."
A Civil War novel, with scenes set at Chickamauga and Andersonville. Oliver Thomas Beard (1832-1898) had been a Lt-Colonel in the 48th New York Infantry and is reputed to have led the first regiment of Black troops into battle in the Civil War. This rather sentimental novel, while intended to paint a favorable picture of formerly enslaved African-Americans, lapses into predictable stereotypes, dialect, and paternalism. There was a second edition in 1888. WRIGHT III:429.
A Civil War novel, with scenes set at Chickamauga and Andersonville. Oliver Thomas Beard (1832-1898) had been a Lt-Colonel in the 48th New York Infantry and is reputed to have led the first regiment of Black troops into battle in the Civil War. This rather sentimental novel, while intended to paint a favorable picture of formerly enslaved African-Americans, lapses into predictable stereotypes, dialect, and paternalism. There was a second edition in 1888. WRIGHT III:429.