CUDJO'S CAVE. By J. T. Trowbridge (Author), Dean Rehberger (Introduction), M. A. Donohue & Co., Chicago.
 
Historical Fiction - Abolitionists (Civil War)
Vintage from the 1900s
 
Cudjo’s Cave chronicles the brutalities and fears faced by unionists, loyal to Abraham Lincoln and the federal cause, living in secessionist states politically aligned with the Confederacy. Set in 1861 in a fictionalized rural village in east Tennessee, the story revolves around four main characters who find themselves trapped together with other unionists in “Cudjo’s Cave.”
 
John Townsend Trowbridge was an American poet, novelist and newspaper man who had strong abolitionist views, some of which almost got the paper that he was writing for closed down.  His literary output included a number of titles written under the pseudonym Paul Creyton.
 
Color illustrated cover. Few pages with erased pencil and one neatly taped top edge tear. Hardcover book with 324 pages. Undated circa 1900.