Contents
[ TO THE PUBLIC ]
[ RULES FOR PRINCIPALS AND SECONDS IN DUELLING. ]
| [ CHAPTER I. ] | The Person Insulted, Before Challenge Sent |
| [ CHAPTER II. ] | The Party Receiving a Note Before Challenge |
| [ CHAPTER III. ] | Duty of Challenger and His Second Before Fighting |
| [ CHAPTER IV. ] | Duty of Challengee and Second After Challenge Sent |
| [ CHAPTER V. ] | Duty of Principals and Seconds on the Ground |
| [ CHAPTER VI. ] | Who Should Be on the Ground |
| [ CHAPTER VII. ] | Arms, and Manner of Loading and Presenting Them |
| [ CHAPTER VIII. ] | The Degrees of Insult, and How Compromised |
[ APPENDIX. ]
[ ADDITIONAL GALWAY ARTICLES ]
Summary:
Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina, as a 22-page booklet, in 1838. Before his death he added an appendix of the 1777 Irish duelling code, but this second edition was not printed until 1858, as a 46-page small book, still sized to fit in the case with one's duelling pistols. This code is far less blood-thirsty than many might suppose, but built on a closed social caste and standards of behavior quite alien to today.