CONTENTS

[PART I—MY FATHER]
CHAPTER PAGE
[I.][Origin of the Two L Allstons][3]
[II.][Planter and Citizen][12]
[III.][My Brother’s Narrative][26]
[PART II—MY MOTHER]
[IV.][Early Days and Old Field School][43]
[V.][Daddy Tom and Daddy Prince—Death of Little Mother So Beloved][53]
[VI.][Marriage][57]
[VII.][Move to Canaan—Aunt Blythe][67]
[VIII.][First Child—Plantation Life][81]
[IX.][First Grieving][94]
[PART III—MYSELF]
[X.][Baby Woes][107]
[XI.][The Little Schoolhouse—Boarding-School][123]
[XII.][Summer on the Sea—School and Della’s Illness and Trip Abroad—Papa Elected Governor][137]
[XIII.][Christmas at Chicora Wood][150]
[XIV.][Life in Charleston—Preparations for War][160]
[XV.][Boarding-School in War Times][176]
[PART IV—WAR TIMES]
[XVI.][The Wedding][187]
[XVII.][Crowley Hill—Our Place of Refuge During the War][192]
[XVIII.][Sorrow][200]
[XIX.][Loch Adèle][213]
[XX.][Shadows][218]
[XXI.][Preparing to Meet Sherman][221]
[XXII.][They Come!][229]
[XXIII.][Daddy Hamedy’s Appeal—In the Track of Sherman’s Army][239]
[XXIV.][Shadows Deepen][248]
[XXV.][Gleams of Light][250]
[XXVI.][Taking the Oath][260]
[PART V—READJUSTMENT]
[XXVII.][Gleams of Light from My Diary][283]
[XXVIII.][Aunt Petigru—My First German][298]
[XXIX.][Mamma’s School][307]
[XXX.][The School a Success][316]
[XXXI.][1868][331]
[XXXII.][Chicora Wood][340]
[XXXIII.][Daddy Ancrum’s Story][349]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Mrs. Pringle at Chicora Wood][ Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[Robert Francis Withers Allston, President of the Senate][20]
Portrait by Flagg about 1850
[James Louis Petigru][46]
Miniature by Fraser
[Mrs. Benjamin Allston (née Charlotte Anne Allston), Mother of R. F. W. Allston][90]
Miniature by Fraser
[Mrs. R. F. W. Allston (née Adèle Petigru)][140]
Portrait by Flagg about 1850
[Adèle Allston at Sixteen][188]
[Chicora Wood][244]
[Mrs. William Allston (née Ester La Brosse de Mahboeuf)][294]

PART I
MY FATHER

CHAPTER I
ORIGIN OF THE TWO L ALLSTONS