George Cary Eggleston

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."

He also served as an editor of Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s.^[1]

Principal Works

Novels

• A Man of Honor (1873, first serialized in Hearth and Home)
• The Wreck of the Red Bird (1882)
• Juggernaut (1891)
• 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)

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

1. Eggleston, George Cary. Recollections of a Varied Life, pp. 131-33 (1910)

• "Eggleston, George Cary" American Authors 1600-1900 The H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1938

External links

• Works by George Cary Eggleston at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about George Cary Eggleston at Internet Archive
• Works by George Cary Eggleston at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• A Rebel's Recollections. New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): The Riverside Press, 1875, c1874.
• George Cary Eggleston - The Authors - The Atlantic