ABSTRACT
The city is taken, and the doctor and his daughter go back to their old home, where at once Miss Lillie Ravenel's conversion from secession to Loyalty takes place. Mr. De Forest, who has written other books, but whose acquaintance we make for the first time in this novel, is a very lively writer. One exception we make to this assertion regarding the personages of the story. Carter is well depicted; daguerreotyped from nature. This handsome officer with his thirty-five years, his ruddy-bronze complexion, his audacious eye, his mighty mustachios, his easy assurance, his manners not unlike those of her native Louisiana, captivates Miss Ravenel. After Bull Run the governor of Barataria commissions John T. Carter as a colonel and Edward Colburne as a captain, their regiment being the 10th Barataria, and the two men say good-bye to the Ravenels and put to sea under sealed orders which consign them to Butler's expedition against New Orleans.
