De Forest wrote essays, a few poems, and about fifty short stories, numerous military sketches, and book reviews, most of which were anonymous. His published books include: The History of the Indians of Connecticut, from the Earliest known Period to 1850 (Hartford, 1851) Oriental Acquaintance, a sketch of travels in Asia Minor (New York, 1856) Witching Times (1856) European Acquaintance (1858) Seacliff, or The Mystery of the Westervelts (Boston, 1859) Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (New York, 1867) Overland (New York, 1871) Kate Beaumont (Boston, 1872) The Wetherell Affair (New York, 1873) Honest John Vane (New Haven, 1875) Justine Vane (New York, 1875) Playing the Mischief (1875) Irene Vane (1877) Irene, the Missionary (Boston, 1879) The Oddest of Courtships, or the Bloody Chasm (New York, 1881) A Lover's Revolt (1898) (set in the American Revolution) The De Forests of Avesnes (and of New Netherland) a Huguenot thread in American colonial history (New Haven, 1900) The Downing legends; stories in rhyme (New Haven, 1901) Poems; Medley and Palestina (New Haven, 1902) A Union Officer in the Reconstruction (1948) Notes References External links 1826 births 1906 deaths People from Seymour, Connecticut 19th-century American novelists American military writers American essayists Union Army officers People of Connecticut in the American Civil War American male poets 19th-century American historians American travel writers American male novelists Military personnel from Connecticut The Nation (U.S. magazine) people American male essayists American male short story writers 19th-century American poets 19th-century American short story writers 19th-century essayists 19th-century American male writers Historians from Connecticut