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AMONG THE PINES.

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A NEW WORK, Descriptive of Southern Social Life, BY THE AUTHOR OF AMONG THE PINES, Is now in course of publication in THE "CONTINENTAL MONTHLY," PUBLISHED BY J. R. GILMORE, 532 Broadway, NEW YORK.

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AMONG THE PINES:

or, South in Secession Time.

by

EDMUND KIRKE.

Tenth Thousand. New York: J. R. Gilmore, 532 Broadway. Charles T. Evans. 1862.

Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1862, by J. R. Gilmore, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

M'crea & Miller, Stereotypers. C. A. Alvord, Printer

TO RICHARD B. KIMBALL,

THE ACCOMPLISHED AUTHOR, THE POLISHED GENTLEMAN, AND MY OLD AND EVER-VALUED FRIEND,

THESE SKETCHES ARE DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

CHAPTER I.--ON THE ROAD.--Arrival at Georgetown.--The Village
Inn.--Nocturnal Adventures.--My African Driver.--His Strange
History.--Genuine Negro Songs.--Arrival at Bucksville. 10

CHAPTER II.--WAYSIDE HOSPITALITY.--A Strange Meeting.--A Well
Ordered Plantation.--A Thunder-storm.--A New Guest.--The Hidden
Springs or Secession Exposed.--On the Way Again.--Intelligence
of the Negro.--Renconter with a Secessionist. 30

CHAPTER III.--CROSSING THE RUNS.--The Black Declines His
Freedom.--His Reasons for so Doing.--A "native"
Abolitionist.--Swimming the Run.--Black Spirits and
White.--Shelter. 55

CHAPTER IV.--POOR WHITES.--The Mills House.--South Carolina
Clay-Eaters.--Political Discussion.--President Lincoln a
Negro.--"Three in a Bed and one in the Middle."--$250 reward.--A
Secret League. 69

CHAPTER V.--ON THE PLANTATION.--The Planter's Dwelling.--His
House-Keeper.--The Process of Turpentine Making.--Loss to Carolina
by Secession.--The Dying Boy.--The Story of Jim.--A Northern Man
with Southern Principles.--Sam Murdered.--Pursuit of the Overseer. 94

CHAPTER VI.--THE PLANTER'S FAMILY.--The old Nurse.--Her Story.--A
White Slave-Woman's Opinion of Slavery.--The Stables.--The
Negro-Quarters.--Sunday Exercises.--The Taking of Moye. 127

CHAPTER VII.--PLANTATION DISCIPLINE.--The "Ole Cabin."--The Mode of
Negro Punishment.--The "Thumb-Screw."--A Ministering Angel.--A Negro
Trial.--A Rebellion.--A Turpentine Dealer.--A Boston Dray on its
Travels. 150

CHAPTER VIII.--THE NEGRO HUNTER.--Young Democrats.--Political
Discussion.--Startling Statistics.--A Freed Negro. 169

CHAPTER IX.--THE COUNTRY CHURCH.--Its Description.--The
"Corn-Cracker."--The News.--Strange Disclosure. 180

CHAPTER X.--THE NEGRO FUNERAL.--The Burial Ground.--A Negro
Sermon.--The Appearance of Juley.--The Colonel's
Heartlessness.--The Octoroon's Explanation of it.--The Escape
of Moye. 196

CHAPTER XI.--THE PURSUIT.--The Start.--"Carolina Race-Horses."--A
Race.--We Lose the Trail.--A Tornado.--A Narrow Escape.-- 207

CHAPTER XII.--THE YANKEE SCHOOLMISTRESS.--Our New
Apparel.--"Kissing Goes by Favor."--Schools at the South. 222

CHAPTER XIII.--THE RAILWAY STATION.--The Village.--A Drunken
Yankee.--A Narrow Escape.--Andy Jones.--A Light-Wood Fire.--The
Colonel's Departure. 227

CHAPTER XIV.--THE BARBACUE.--The Camp-Ground.--The
Stump-Speaker.--A Stump Speech.--Almost a Fight.--The
Manner of Roasting the Ox. 239

CHAPTER XV.--THE RETURN.--Arrival at the Plantation.--Disappearance
of Juley and her child.--The Old Preacher's Story.--Scene Between
the Master and the Slave. 253

CHAPTER XVI.--"ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE."--Attempted Whipping of
Jim.--Appearance of the "Corn-Cracker."--"Drowned.--Drowned." 260

CHAPTER XVII.--THE SMALL PLANTER.--His House.--His
Wife.--His Negroes.--A Juvenile Darky.--Lazarus in "Ab'ram's
Buzzum."--White and Black Labor Compared.--The Mysteries
of "Rosum" manufacture. 277

CHAPTER XVIII.--THE BURIAL OF JULE.--"He Tempers the Wind to the
Shorn Lamb."--The Funeral. 295

CHAPTER XIX.--HOMEWARD BOUND.--Colonel A---- Again.--Parting with
Scipio.--Why this Book was Written. 298

CHAPTER XX.--CONCLUSION.--The Author's Explanations.--Last
News from Moye and Scipio.--Affecting Letter from
Andy Jones.--The End. 303