Published in 1865, this fictional account of the misadventures of Will Fishback--a Confederate deserter from Georgia who wanders the southern countryside he had sworn to protect--pays homage to the forms and dialects of the picaresque frontier folktale.
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Published in 1865, this fictional account of the misadventures of Will Fishback--a Confederate deserter from Georgia who wanders the southern countryside he had sworn to protect--pays homage to the forms and dialects of the picaresque frontier folktale.
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98pp. grey cloth 8vo w/gilt titles: Fine/no dj. University of Georgia Libraries Miscellanea Publications, No. 3. A useful reissue of a scarce original by the Georgia writer Warren (1829-89). Professor Watkins notes that this volume is a "fictional treatment of the exploits of an Army deserter, written by a Confederate soldier and published only a few months after Appomattox."
