Produced by Curtis Weyant, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by the Wright American Fiction Project.) Transcriber's Note: The author states in the Appendix "The book which our readers have just completed perusing, is filled with many errors; too many, in fact, for any literary work to contain." Only the very obvious errors have been corrected. THE TRIALS OF THE SOLDIER'S WIFE: A TALE OF THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY ALEX. ST. CLAIR ABRAMS. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: 1864. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, BY THE AUTHOR, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. DEDICATION TO COLONEL JOHN H. JOSSEY. Of Macon, Georgia. MY DEAR SIR-- Accept from me the dedication of this little work as a token of appreciation for the kind friendship you have ever displayed towards me. Wishing you all the happiness and prosperity that can fall to mortal man, believe me. Your Friend, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The plot of this little work was first thought of by the writer in the month of December, 1862, on hearing the story of a soldier from New Orleans, who arrived from Camp Douglas just in time to see his wife die at Jackson, Mississippi. Although the Press of that city made no notice of it, the case presented itself as a fit subject for a literary work. If the picture drawn in the following pages appears exaggerated to our readers, they will at least recognize the moral it contains as truthful. Trusting that the public will overlook its many defects, the Author yet hopes there will be found in this little book, matter of sufficient interest to while away the idle hour of the reader. ATLANTA, April 20th, 1864. THE TRIALS OF THE SOLDIER'S WIFE. CHAPTER FIRST. THE "CRESCENT CITY"--THE HUSBAND'S DEPARTURE. Kind reader, have you ever been to New Orleans? If not, we will attempt to describe the metropolis of the Confederate States of America.