Burial of the Guns, The

By Thomas Nelson Page

Subjects: United states, social life and customs, fiction

Description: 1860s. Six tales depicting the South of the days before and after the war, with deep affection for the old patriarchal society but without blindness to its darker side. Title-story a gallant, pathetic episode of the closing Civil War. The others contain some very tender and affectionate sketches of character. — Baker, E. A., A Guide to Historical Fiction (1914)