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DE LEON, T.C. Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, from Birth to Death. First edition. Frontispiece portrait SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Bookplate of Marguerite S. Dyde. pp. vii, 376. Original gilt-tiled boards, stained. 8vo. Mobile, Ala., The Gossip Printing Company, 1892. This volume contains the author's history of the South during the America Civil War; including battles, government issues, slavery and everyday life. American journalist, author, and playwright, Thomas Cooper de Leon (1839-1914) was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to his parents Mordecai Hendricks de Leon and Rebecca Lopez. His older brothers were the Confederate Surgeon-General David Camden de Leon and the writer and Confederate diplomat and propagandist Edwin de Leon. Thomas Cooper de Leon served in the Confederate army for the duration of the war and later edited The Mobile Register, The Gossip, and the Gulf Citizen. For many years, he managed the Mobile Mardi Gras Carnival. He became totally blind from 1903 and henceforward known as ”The Blind Laureate of the Lost Cause.” See https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/de-leon-thomas-cooper/.