In post-Civil War years agriculture in Mississippi, as elsewhere, was in a depressed condition. The price of cotton steadily declined, and the farmer was hard put to meet the payments on his mortgage.
Exhibiting a clear, straightforward style, his many works are marked by a comprehensiveness and a catholicity of view. There is hardly an element of southern thought or society, hardly a major movemen
" WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KENT MASTERSON BROWN Winner of the General Basil W. Duke Award for best Civil War reprint A riveting view of frontline Civil War action at Shiloh, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg,
