Southern Cavalier, Steadfast Unionist: An Ohio Poet-General's Elegant Dispatches From The Field

Authors

John R. Sellers

ISBN

813121086

Publisher

University Press of Kentucky

Abstract

In her well-documented introduction to wartime letters of William Haines Lytle (1826-1863), editor Ruth C. Carter characterizes Ohio's poet-general as the epitome of the Southern cavalier -- vain, romantic, schooled in the social graces yet also pro-slavery, politically active, and a Douglas Democra....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.2.1.23

Recommended Citation

Sellers, John R. (2000) "Southern Cavalier, Steadfast Unionist: An Ohio Poet-General's Elegant Dispatches From The Field," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 2 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.2.1.23
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol2/iss1/23