The Cauldwell List Author:E.T. Kimball Life in the grand and passionate area along America's Southeast coast between 1840 and 1909 is the subject of The Cauldwell List. When young James Cauldwell is sent by his father into the area to buy cotton for the northern mills, he finds things vastly different from his life in New York City. Within the beauty of those Victorian times, life in... more » the outback was rough and raw, while on the great plantations slaves labored to support a life of wealth and elegance. James marries a Southern girl, and their only son becomes incarcerated in the infamous Andersonville prison where he secretly compiles the soon-to-be famous Cauldwell List. Ed Kimball's love of the South and its people is personified in the book's varied characters during these years of great adventure, conflict, romance, gaiety, discovery, and eventual resolution. His descriptions and engaging plot dramatically display the social and economic restlessness of the time.« less