Excerpt from Fagots From the Camp FireFagots from the Camp Fire is exceptional in its style and scope. Its graphic delineation of the coarsest phases of every-day life, its portrayal of most thrilling incidents within the experience of soldiers and people of the South, how they loved and hated, starved and died, and the tender pathos which marks many pages, although told in the rude language of the uneducated, yet bear that wondrous touch of n...
Fagots from the Camp Fire is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes...
Fagots from the Camp Fire is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881.
Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishe...
Excerpt from Fagots From the Camp Fire
I. Do not tell of great battles, or Generals, or Presidents, or Kings, and therefore, do not write history. I only define the woes, triumphs, modes of thinking, living, fighting, and dying of scouts and common soldiers. I tell of wild adventures, hideous deaths, and marvelous escap'es. I recite terrible incidents, others ludicrous, and others most pitiful, and if a narrative be rude in expression, signif...
