Writing
De Forest wrote essays, a few poems, and about fifty short stories, numerous military sketches, and book reviews, most of which were anonymous. In 1873, he contributed to The Atlantic Monthly a short serial story entitled "The Lauson Tragedy."
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, a novel (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)
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