Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond

by Joseph A. Altsheler

Overview

Before the Dawn is a powerful story of the Civil War describing the last days of the Confederacy in Richmond vividly depicting conditions as the world's greatest war was drawing to a close. The novel contains a strong love story, and the mighty struggle of Lee and Grant in "The Wilderness" of Virginia passes through its pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987016789
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/12/2016
Series:	Civil War Classics , #4
Pages:	462
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Joseph Alexander Altsheler was born in Three Springs, Hart County, Kentucky to Joseph and Louise (Snoddy) Altsheler. In 1885, he took a job at the Louisville Courier-Journal as a reporter and later worked as an editor. He started working for the New York World in 1892, first as the paper's Hawaiian correspondent and then as the editor of the World's tri-weekly magazine. Due to a lack of suitable stories, he began writing children's stories for the magazine.

Altsheler married Sarah Boles on May 30, 1888, and had one son. He and his family were in Germany when World War I began. The difficult journey home took a toll on Altsheler's health and he was never the same. He died in New York City in 1919.