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Name
  
George Eggleston

Role
  
Author


Education
  
University of Richmond

Siblings
  
Edward Eggleston

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Died
  
April 14, 1911, New York City, New York, United States

People also search for
  
Edward Eggleston, Joseph Cary Eggleston, Mary Jane Craig

Books
  
Red Eagle and the Wars with, Recollections of a varied life, A captain in the ranks, The Master Of Warlock, A Man of Honor

George Cary Eggleston (26 November 1839 – 14 April 1911) American author and brother of fellow author Edward Eggleston (1837–1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in The Atlantic Monthly. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections."

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He also served as an editor of Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s.

His boyhood home at Vevay, Indiana, known as the Edward and George Cary Eggleston House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Principal Works

Novels

  • A Man of Honor (1873, first serialized in Hearth and Home)
  • The Wreck of the Red Bird (1882)
  • Juggernaut (1891)
  • Camp Venture, a story of the Virginia mountains (1901)
  • A Carolina Cavalier, a Romance of the American Revolution (1902)
  • Dorothy South (1902)
  • The Master of Warlock; a Virginia War Story (1903)
  • Evelyn Byrd (1904)
  • Love is the Sum of It All (1907)
  • Blind Alleys (1906)
  • Irene of the Mountains; a Romance of Old Virginia (1909)
  • Juvenile Publications

  • Big Brother Series (1875–1882)
  • Strange Stories from History (1886)
  • Miscellaneous

  • How to Educate Yourself: With or Without Masters (1872)
  • A Rebel's Recollections (1874)
  • How to Make a Living: Suggestions Upon the Art of Making, Saving, and Using Money (1875)
  • Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama (1878)
  • The First of the Hoosiers: Reminiscences of Edward Eggleston (1903)
  • Recollections of a Varied Life (1910)
  • The History of the Confederate War (1910)
  • References

    George Cary Eggleston Wikipedia