“A good account of life in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1863 by a visitor from the North— particularly useful for observations of Creoles, the enslaved, and plantations.”
“Most of this book is concerned with a factual discussion of the South; only the last three of its sixteen chapters deal with the author's personal experiences. The Reverend Ozanne was an Englishman who became a resident of the South in 1841 as an…