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Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field  by Thomas W. Knox Full Title: Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. "This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which were leased to Northern speculators and managers,and in detailing the ways of Negroes working on them. The author himself made an attempt to manage a plantation near Waterproof, Louisiana, for a year. Knox,born in New Hampshire, went to Colorado in 1860 to dig gold, but turned to newspaper work. On the outbreak of the Civil War,he returned to the East and became a war correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald. He followed the campaigns in Missouri, going as far as Wilson Creek and Pea Ridge in Arkansas. With the invasion of Tennessee early in 1862 he went with the Federal Army to Shiloh, but became persona non grata to Halleck and was banished from that area. Thereafter he was associated with army movements up and down the Mississippi incident to the capture of Vicksburg until he displeased General Sherman, who had him tried by court martial and expelled. It was then that Knox attempted the plantation management previously mentioned. He recorded many experiences,impressions,and conversations with Southern people in the occupied part of the Confederacy, writing with commendable detachments,but naturally criticizing the Southerners for the slave system and the war. Afterwards,he circumnavigated the globe twice and wrote many books,including a series of almost forty travel books for boys." -- Coulter 281
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