The Red Mist (Annotated)

Randall Parrish's The Red Mist is a vigorous Civil War romance in which military peril, espionage, disguise, and divided allegiance are drawn into the "red mist" of battle and moral confusion. Written in the brisk, plot-driven manner of early twentieth-century popular historical fiction, the novel combines battlefield adventure with sentimental romance, placing private loyalties against the larger...