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.

CHAPTER I.