Alonzo Kimball

My Lady of the South. Alonzo Kimball

Sergeant Elbert King of Reynolds' Battery, being left for dead after the defeat at Minersville, recovers and hides in the outskirts of a Southern home. Here he first sees Jean Denslow and hears her passionate outpouring of aversion to her marriage, to be forced upon her that night, to a Southern officer. Here he also learns of a flank movement to be made by the victorious Southerners upon Rosecrans' entrenched and retreating troops. His effort to warn his army of its dangers throws him into a relation more intimate than cordial with this Lady of the South, and gains him a lieutenancy within the same twenty-four hours.