Across the Zodiac

By: Greg, Percy

Book Excerpt: ssippi. I was unable to return before the surrender, and, forreasons into which I need not enter, I believed myself to be markedout by the Federal Government for vengeance. If I had remained withintheir reach, I might have shared the fate of Wirz and other victims ofcalumnies which, once put in circulation during the war, theirofficial authors dared not retract at its close. Now I and others, who, if captured in 1865, might probably have been hanged, are neithermolested nor even suspected of any other offence than that offighting, as our opponents fought, for the State to which ourallegiance was due. However, I thought it necessary to escape beforethe final surrender of our forces beyond the Mississippi. I made myway to Mexico, and, like one or two Southern officers of greaterdistinction than myself, entered the service of the EmperorMaximilian, not as mere soldiers of fortune, but because, knowingbetter than any but her Southern neighbours knew it the miserableanarchy of Mexico under the RepublRead Mor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798707456534
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"