High Private

Rensselaer Reed Gilbert was one of the most prolific newspaper correspondents during the years of the U. S. Civil War. He penned several hundred news and editorial columns, as well as comic sketches, for the  Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph . An ardent Confederate nationalist, Gilbert was a strong supporter of states’ rights and the economic institution of slavery, despite the fact that he was a transplant from Vermont.  High Private , titled after Gilbert’s newspaper persona, expands res