The Three Scouts

Civil War era story with decorative green boards with gilt lettering and floral end pages. Boards with heavy wear; pages very dusty with heavy age toning. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827 – 1916) was an American author born in Ogden, New York. He is today perhaps best remembered for his study The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities (1867, republished two years later with additions by another author as A Picture of the Desolated States and the Work of Reconstruction, 1865-1868). Trowbridge toured much of the defeated Confederacy during the summer of 1865 and the following winter. He observed carefully, and talked with a wide variety of people, including freedmen, die-hard Rebels, Unionists, farmers, businessmen, refugees, and Northern entrepreneurs.