The Project Gutenberg eBook, Among the Pines, by James R. Gilmore

Title: Among the Pines

or, South in Secession Time

Author: James R. Gilmore

Release Date: October 11, 2007 [eBook #22960]

Language: English

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AMONG THE PINES.

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.

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.

• On The Road.
  

  Arrival at Georgetown.—The Village Inn.—Nocturnal Adventures.—My African Driver.—His Strange History.—Genuine Negro Songs.—Arrival at Bucksville.

• Wayside Hospitality.
  

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

• Crossing the Runs.
  

  The Black Declines His Freedom.—His Reasons for so Doing.—A "native" Abolitionist.—Swimming the Run.—Black Spirits and White.—Shelter.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Negro Hunter.
  

  Young Democrats.—Political Discussion.—Startling Statistics.—A Freed Negro.

• The Country Church.
  

  Its Description.—The "Corn-Cracker."—The News.—Strange Disclosure.

• 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.

• The Pursuit.
  

  The Start.—"Carolina Race-Horses."—A Race.—We Lose the Trail.—A Tornado.—A Narrow Escape.

• The Yankee Schoolmistress.
  

  Our Ne Apparel.—"Kissing Goes by Favor."—Schools at the South.

• The Railway Station.
  

  The Village.—A Drunken Yankee.—A Narrow Escape.—Andy Jones.—A Light-Wood Fire.—The Colonel's Departure.

• The Barbacue.
  

  The Camp-Ground.—The Stump-Speaker.—A Stump Speech.—Almost a Fight.—The Manner of Roasting the Ox.

• The Return.
  

  Arrival at the Plantation.—Disappearance of Juley and her child.—The Old Preacher's Story.—Scene Between the Master and the Slave.