James Dabney McCabe, Jr. (1842-1883) was an American author. He was born in Richmond, Virginia. McCabe was the son of James D. McCabe, an Episcopal clergyman and editor. Educated at Virginia Military Institute, McCabe spent the war period writing plays. He wrote several hundred short stories, essays, poems, and translations. He also wrote under the pseudonyms An Ex-Cadet, Edward Winslow Martin and A Southerner. His works include: The Life of Lieut. Gen. T. J. Jackson (1863), The Aid-de-Camp: A Romance of the War (1863), The Guerrillas (1863), The Gray- Jackets (1867), The Secrets of the Great City (1868), The New Administration (1869) and Paris by Sunlight and Gaslight (1870).
Are you an entrepreneur who is losing faith and wondering whether it's worth it to stick it out through the lean times? Take inspiration from this remarkable collection of tales about American businesspeople who struck it rich and hit the big time. Author James McCabe Jr. compiles a selection of accounts of some of the country's most brazen tycoons.
The romance of "The Aid-De-Camp" was written during the fall of 1862, more for the purpose of beguiling a season of weariness than with the expectation of presenting it to the public. It was originally published in "The Magnolia Weekly" and turned out to be the greatest success of its author and one of the most prominent belles-lettres of that time.
Though baseball would eventually come to embody the American spirit, in the nineteenth century onlookers regarded the game with some ambivalence. To capture the hearts of the public, baseball needed teams worth watching--and no team was a better ambassador for baseball in the 19th century than the New York Giants. The pre-John McGraw Giants were occasionally very good and frequently very fashionable, but they had not yet become the trademark team of the National League that they would become in the early 20th century. The Giants were, however, one of the league's premier teams simply because they played in the country's premier city. New York and its Giants epitomized the rise of industrialized America and the need for organized spectator diversions. Together, the city and the team helped propel baseball into its position as the national pastime.
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