Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time

by James R. Gilmore

THE ACCOMPLISHED AUTHOR, THE POLISHED GENTLEMAN,

AND

MY OLD AND EVER-VALUED FRIEND,

THESE SKETCHES ARE DEDICATED

BY THE

Author.

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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.
• ["One More Unfortunate."]
  
• Attempted Whipping of Jim.—Appearance of the "Corn-Cracker."—"Drowned.—Drowned."
• [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.
• [The Burial of Jule.]
  
• "He Tempers the Wind to the Shorn Lamb."—The Funeral.
• [Homeward Bound.]
  
• Colonel A—— Again.—Parting with Scipio.—Why this Book was Written.
• [Conclusion.]
  
• The Author's Explanations.—Last News from Moye and Scipio.—Affecting Letter from Andy Jones.—The End.

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