F. G. (Felix Gregory) De Fontaine

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F. G. (Felix Gregory) De Fontaine

1832–1896

A Civil War journalist and editor, he wrote with the urgency of someone reporting from inside the conflict itself. His books and newspaper work capture a sharp, partisan Southern view of 19th-century America.

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History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy.

History of American Abolitionism Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy.

by F. G. (Felix Gregory) De Fontaine

About the author

Born in 1832, Felix Gregory De Fontaine worked as a journalist in Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina, and during the Civil War he served as an army correspondent for the Charleston Courier. Archival records also describe him as a major in the 1st South Carolina Regiment, placing him close to the events he later wrote about.

He is best known for books such as History of American Abolitionism and Marginalia; Or, Gleanings from an Army Note-Book. Those works reflect his experience as a Confederate-era writer and reporter, and they are often read today as firsthand windows into the politics, arguments, and emotions of the period rather than as neutral histories.

De Fontaine remained active in journalism after the war, and library records connect him with editorial work and literary publishing in South Carolina. He died in 1896, leaving behind newspaper writing, war commentary, and books that preserve a distinctly 19th-century Southern perspective.