The South As It Is: or, Twenty-One Years' Experience in the Southern States of America
“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 Episcopal rector on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. In 1862 he decided to remove from this exposed region and settle for a time in the interior of the state, but after a few weeks at Terry, near Jackson, he determined to return to England. He continued to New Orleans and waited there under the Butler regime for an opportunity to go by sea to New York. In September he sailed for England. This narrative gives an interesting picture of conditions in that part of the Confederacy which the author visited and especially of New Orleans under Butler.”