John DeForest
(1826-1906)
DeForest,
John W. Union Officer in Reconstruction. Edited by J. H.
Croushore and D. M. Potter. Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1948. This
work, edited by two distinguished authorities, consists of a
twenty-three-page biographical notice and then a collection of
DeForest's reports and writings as a Union officer in the Reconstruction
South. The introduction includes a literary critique by Croushore.
Gargano,
James W., ed. Critical Essays on John William DeForest.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981.
Light,
James. John William DeForest. New York: Twayne, 1965. Light
is a professor of American Literature, and his work is principally
literary.
Potter,
David M. "John William DeForest." Papers of the
NHCHS 10(1951):188-203. DeForest wrote nineteen books and many
magazine articles. He was, as William Dean Howells said, a realist
before realism in literature was invented. Potter was a distinguished
historian of the American Civil War.
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