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What does loyalty ask of you when the person you love pulls your heart another way?
In A Little Traitor to the South, Cyrus Townsend Brady brings the Civil War into the homes of Southerners who are not soldiers. Letters, shortages and fear carry the fighting into daily life. Here, private choices matter as much as battles, and love cannot stand apart from the demands of war.
This romance explores what happens when feeling and duty collide. The title’s promise of a traitor carries an edge of irony: what does faithfulness mean when loyalties divide? Brady tells the story with open emotion and strong moral contrasts, asking you to care about the personal cost of sacrifice.
What you’ll discover
- War close to home Enter kitchens, parlors and country roads where the war shapes life beyond the battlefield.
- Love against duty Explore the strain of feelings that pull against the loyalties a person holds dear.
- The cost of sacrifice Consider what loyalty demands when sacrifice means more than a charge across a field.
- A troubling word Weigh the title’s word, traitor, against a romance shaped by divided feelings and duty.
- Feeling without irony Meet a direct storytelling voice that treats private choices with warmth and moral seriousness.
Who will love it
Readers who love wartime romance, brave officers and quick-witted heroines, and who enjoy a tale of loyalty that moves through a single dramatic night in a besieged Southern port.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A nurse and her two rivals
- A quarrel that ends in tears
- A friend gives up his place
- Lacy goes to see Fanny
- Locked in the strong room
- The David and the empty wharf
Who’s who
- Fanny GlenA small, spirited hospital nurse who hates being commanded, hides her family history and must choose between her love and her loyalty to the South.
- Rhett SemplandA plain, stubborn lieutenant freed after two years in a Northern prison who longs for a chance to prove his courage and win Fanny.
- Harry LacyA brilliant, reckless major, wasted by drink, who loves Fanny but decides to help his rival win her.
- General BeauregardThe small, stern commander of Charleston's defenses who plans the attack on the Federal flagship and weighs duty against mercy.
- CatoThe eldest of three men in Fanny's household who obey her orders to guard the strong room.
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Una piccola traditrice del Sud
by Cyrus Townsend Brady · 1904
A Charleston nurse locks a lieutenant in a strong room on the night he is to take a torpedo boat to sea.
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A Little Traitor to the South is a short Civil War romance by Cyrus Townsend Brady, an American author and clergyman who died in 1920. It is set in Charleston in the winter of 1864, when the city is under siege and its hospitals are full.
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A nurse and her two rivals
The story opens in Charleston in February 1864 with a quarrel. Fanny Glen is barely five feet tall and she hates being ordered about. Lieutenant Rhett Sempland stands six feet tall and loves her, and he has just tried to forbid her to see another man.
That man is Major Harry Lacy, a soldier of splendid courage and a ruinous thirst. His family name is one of the oldest in the Carolinas, and he has dragged it through the mud. The war gave him a way out of that life. He ran the blockade, carried dispatches through enemy lines and fought at Gettysburg, where he was shot to pieces and sent to Charleston to die.
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What is A Little Traitor to the South about?
It is about a Charleston nurse named Fanny Glen and two officers who love her. On a February night in 1864, a torpedo boat attack forces all three to choose between love, honor and loyalty to the South.
Is A Little Traitor to the South a true story?
The characters are invented, but the setting is real. Charleston was blockaded in 1864, General Beauregard commanded the defense, and a small torpedo boat called the David did attack a Union ship that winter.
Who wrote A Little Traitor to the South?
Cyrus Townsend Brady wrote it. He was an American author and clergyman who died in 1920, and he wrote many popular romances and adventure tales as well as histories.
The author
Cyrus Townsend Brady
1861–1920 · American historical novelist
Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861–1920) was an American writer and Episcopal clergyman. He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and died in Yonkers, New York. He wrote historical novels, biographies, and books about American history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels include Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer and A Little Traitor to the South.
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