John Pendleton Kennedy, John Eaton Cooke and Other Southern Novelists (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from John Pendleton Kennedy, John Eaton Cooke and Other Southern NovelistsIn 1814 a little army of volun teers and citizen-soldiers marched from Baltimore in the direction of Washington, with the vain hope of saving the capital of the nation. Among that number was John P. Kennedy, a youth of nineteen just from college. From that time un til his death, in 1870, he had more or less interest in public affairs. Once a member of the President's Cabinet, three times in Congress, three times a member of the Mary land Legislature, a lawyer of abili ty and a writer of no mean repute.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.