Knights in Fustian: A War Time Story of Indiana (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Knights in Fustian: A War Time Story of Indiana

While presenting the romantic and tragic sides of the situation with which this story deals, the author has not strayed from the truth, but has used the romancer's privilege of gathering into a narrative facts from many sources. Except in those chapters dealing with sentiment, - as common in times of storm and stress as in tranquillity and safety, - every incident is founded on facts, which were either actual experiences of the author's kith and kin, or else the observation of eyewitnesses. But by far the most important part was gleaned from the record of the treason trials, as reported and published by Benn Pitman, the official stenographer; and wherever the ritual of the order is quoted, it is taken from this report. Material was also collected from Greeley's "American Conflict," Barnes's "History of the United States," three different lives of Governor Morton, and the files of the "Indianapolis Journal" for 1863 and 1864.

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