[Rarebooks] FS: The Sunny Road. Home Life in Dixie During the War 1920 ed.

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

Steel, S[amuel] A[ugustus].  The Sunny Road. Home Life in Dixie During  
the War.

No place, no date (1920).

Samuel Steel [1849-1934] was born in Grenada, Mississippi, and worked  
as an itinerant preacher before attending Emory and Henry College in  
Virginia, and then the University of Virginia, where he was also  
chaplain. The Methodist Church kept him on the move around the  
southern states, with posts in Richmond, Meridian (Mississippi),  
Memphis, Louisville, Kansas City, Nashville, and finally Mansfield  
(Louisiana), before he retired and began his second career as an  
author in 1919. Although only a boy when the war was fought, Steel was  
an unrepentant Lost-Causer who wrote several Bible studies and two  
other books defending the South in the War, including the  
unequivocally titled, “The South Was Right” (1914). His papers are  
held at Emory University.

A cloth edition of this title, which recounts his youthful years  
before and during the war, was published in Memphis in 1925 by Latsch  
& Arnold but this, and a second card-cover volume apparently preceded  
that edition. The author begins the foreword by noting, “This is the  
first of what may be several volumes containing the recollections of  
the author’s trip along THE SUNNY ROAD of life, how many will depend  
on the way this goes”. It evidently went well enough for a volume two,  
but not well enough for a volume three.

Card covers. 5”x7.75”, portrait frontispiece, 160 pages. Covers with  
some wear and soil, corner loss to rear cover. Inscription inside the  
front cover over-penned, frontis with some age-toning and soil.  
{51389}  $125

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