href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@24728@[email protected]#linkimage-0011" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Captain Rory Mcintosh

Aunt Nancy Hart

Aunt Nancy Captures the Tories

General James Jackson

Elijah Clarke

A War of Extermination

Old Man Whipped at the Tail of a Cart

A Negro Patriot

The Yazoo Scheme

Rope to Hang Musgrove

George Matthews and John Clarke

After the Revolution

Early Cultivation of Cotton

Whitney and his Cotton Gin

William Longstreet and his Steamboat

Laughing Gas

Early Progress of the State

British Impressement of Americans

The Creek War

Major Adams Scouting and Indian Camp

Mcgillavray Joins the Indians

Indian Attack

General Clarke Whips Judge Tait

A Queer Case

The Bunkley Trial

Judge Dooly

The Roast Pig

Georgia Politics

Joe Brown and his Steers

Georgia in the War

The Salt Famine

Capture of the Locomotive

Tearing up the Rails

The Negroes Freed

Streetcar in the South

PREFACE.

In preparing the pages that follow, the writer has had in view the desirability of familiarizing the youth of Georgia with the salient facts of the State's history in a way that shall make the further study of that history a delight instead of a task. The ground has been gone over before by various writers, but the narratives that are here retold, and the characterizations that are here attempted, have not been brought together heretofore. They lie wide apart in volumes that are little known and out of print.

The stories and the characterizations have been grouped together so as to form a series of connecting links in the rise and progress of Georgia; yet it must not be forgotten that these links are themselves connected with facts and events in the State's development that are quite as interesting, and of as far-reaching importance, as those that have been narrated here. Some such suggestion as this, it is hoped, will cross the minds of young students, and lead them to investigate for themselves the interesting intervals that lie between.

It is unfortunately true that there