Strange Stories from History for Young People

George Cary Eggleston (1839-1911) was an American author and writer. He was the brother of Edward Eggleston. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in the The Atlantic Monthly. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title A Rebels Recollections in 1875. Amongst his other works are: A Man of Honor (1873), Captain Sam, or, The Boy Scouts of 1814 (1876), Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians (1878), A Carolina Cavalier (1901), Dorothy South (1902), The Master of Warlock (1903) and Evelyn Byrd (1904).