Cora O'kane

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Excerpt from Cora O'kane: Or the Doom of the Rebel Guard, a Story of the Great Rebellion The last month of the year 1860 will long be remembered by the people of this generation, and will be marked as a great epoch in history in all coming time. The causes that produced the seeds which at last ripened into outward strife, it is not our purpose to dwell upon. It is not within our province so to do. We are not writing a history, but simply relating a story of every-day life that occurred where passion and animosity reigned in the hearts of men, arising from imaginary grievances which brought misery and ruin to many firesides that were but a little while before so peaceful and happy, and all this will be seen by the reader as he peruses the following pages. In the early part of the spring, 1861, in the small town of Osceola, on the Osage River, in Missouri, stood a house of magnificent appearance for that remote part of the country, which but a little before was a howling wilderness. Its style of architecture was wholly confined to the taste of the occupant. Its lower rooms were large and airy, and with its huge chimneys, built upon the outside, besmeared with smoke as they were, with a very little imagination might be conjured into the turrets and towers of a baronial castle - especially when viewed from a distance. The building fronted the river, and from its front door, with its ivy-woven stoop, led a commodious walk to the water's edge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.