Excerpt from The Earl of Mayfield: A Novel In the rebel camp, on the outskirts Of the village Of Corinth in Mississippi, sat a young and handsome man, who, though in the first bloom of manhood not exceeding' twenty years already wore the impress of care and weariness; his expressive and frank, but sad, blue eyes were lit up by the last rays of the glowing Southern sun, just dropping behind the neighboring hills. 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.