“1861-1865. Central and western Missouri. A young teenager from the western border of Missouri recalls the war in that region and how the conflict totally engulfed him and his neighbors.”
“First published in 1892, ON THE PLANTATION is the most autobiographical of Harris's works and includes extensive examples of his renderings of the African American Geechee dialect.”
“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…