Devil's Dream - Madison Smartt Bell [157]
1877
October 29: Having uttered his last words, “Call my wife,” Forrest dies in the Memphis home of his brother Jesse.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of fourteen previous works of fiction, including All Souls’ Rising (a National Book Award finalist), Soldier’s Joy, and Anything Goes. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Copyright © 2009 by Madison Smartt Bell
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Portions of this book originally appeared in slightly different form in Blackbird, Boulevard, JMWW, and The Texas Review. A portion also originally appeared in slightly different form in Gathering: Writers of Williamson County, edited by Currie Alexander Powers and Kathy Hardy Rhodes
(Sepulpa, OK: CPO Publishing, 2009).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bell, Madison Smartt.
Devil’s dream / Madison Smartt Bell.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37863-7
1. Southern States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.E517D48 2009
813′.54—dc22 2009009534
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
A Note About the Author
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