American journalist and author, served in the Confederate army; was managing editor and later editor-in-chief of Hearth and Home (1871–1874); was literary editor of the New York Evening Post (1875–1881), literary editor and afterwards editor-in-chief of the New York Commercial Advertiser (1884–1889), and editorial writer for The World (New York) from 1889 to 1900. Most of his books are stories for boys; others, and his best, are romances dealing with life in the South especially in the Virginias and the Carolinas—before and during the Civil War. Among his publications may be mentioned: A Rebel’s Recollections (1874); The Last of the Flatboats (1900); Camp Venture (1900); A Carolina Cavalier (1901); Dorothy South (1902); The Master of Warlock (1903); Evelyn Byrd (1904); A Daughter of the South (1905); Blind Alleys (1906); Love is the Sum of it all (1907); History of the Confederate War (1910); and Recollections of a Varied Life (1910). He was the brother of Edward Eggleston, and died in New York on the 14th of April 1911.
