John's review
The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
This is a small, cloth fabric hardcover book. A little tattered, ink stained, dog eared and musty but in remarkably good condition for having been published in 1912 and costing just 20 cents. It was read by my father as a grammar school assignment a long time ago. So this made the book quite interesting to me. The inside cover identifies it as a "School Edition" having been introduced as a reading text in the early 1900's.
The fictional story was written in the summer of 1863. Grant was at Vicksburg and Meade was holding off Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. The subject of one's country was very much on everyones mind in those dark days of the Civil War. The book involves the tale of Philip Nolan, a disillusioned young Army Lieutenant, who at the conclusion of his court marshall in 1807, expresses a wish to live without a country. Accordingly, the President of the Court sentences him to his wish which Nolan then bears for the rest of his life.
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The fictional story was written in the summer of 1863. Grant was at Vicksburg and Meade was holding off Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. The subject of one's country was very much on everyones mind in those dark days of the Civil War. The book involves the tale of Philip Nolan, a disillusioned young Army Lieutenant, who at the conclusion of his court marshall in 1807, expresses a wish to live without a country. Accordingly, the President of the Court sentences him to his wish which Nolan then bears for the rest of his life.
Love of countr...more
