“Anthony Trollope, the well-known English author, made a trip to America in August 1861. He spent most of his time in the North and in Canada, but he dipped into the South along the northern border on a trip from Baltimore to Missouri. He visited Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville, and continued to St. Louis and to Rolla in central Missouri. On the way back he stopped at Louisville again, made a side trip southward to visit a Federal army camp on Green River, and eventually retraced his route through Cincinnati eastward. Though Trollope was frank in what he had to say about Americans and American institutions, his criticisms, descriptions, and observations were penetrating and enlightening. He did not believe in either secession and slavery or abolition. He was entranced with the natural beauty of Kentucky.”