Four Years in Rebel Capitals / An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

In the land where we were dreaming!
— D. B. Lucas.
I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign, nations and to the next ages.
— Francis Bacon.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1890, By THE GOSSIP PRINTING COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
TO MY VALUED FRIEND,
MRS. AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON,
AS ONE LITTLE TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF A LIFE-WORK DEDICATE TO HER SEX, TO HER SECTION AND TO TRUTH,
THESE SKETCHES
OF LIFE BEHIND OUR CHINESE WALL ARE INSCRIBED.
IN PLACE OF PREFACE.