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  AMONG THE PINES.

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  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.

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  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, forthe Southern District of New York.

  M'crea & Miller, Stereotypers. C. A. Alvord, Printer

  TORICHARD B. KIMBALL,

  THE ACCOMPLISHED AUTHOR, THE POLISHED GENTLEMAN,ANDMY OLD AND EVER-VALUED FRIEND,

  THESE SKETCHES ARE DEDICATEDBY THEAUTHOR.

  CONTENTS.

  PAGE.

  CHAPTER I.--ON THE ROAD.--Arrival at Georgetown.--The Village Inn.--Nocturnal Adventures.--My African Driver.--His Strange History.--Genuine Negro Songs.--Arrival at Bucksville. 10

  CHAPTER II.--WAYSIDE HOSPITALITY.--A Strange Meeting.--A Well Ordered Plantation.--A Thunder-storm.--A New Guest.--The Hidden Springs or Secession Exposed.--On the Way Again.--Intelligence of the Negro.--Renconter with a Secessionist. 30

  CHAPTER III.--CROSSING THE RUNS.--The Black Declines His Freedom.--His Reasons for so Doing.--A "native" Abolitionist.--Swimming the Run.--Black Spirits and White.--Shelter. 55

  CHAPTER IV.--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. 69

  CHAPTER V.--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. 94

  CHAPTER VI.--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. 127

  CHAPTER VII.--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. 150

  CHAPTER VIII.--THE NEGRO HUNTER.--Young Democrats.--Political Discussion.--Startling Statistics.--A Freed Negro. 169

  CHAPTER IX.--THE COUNTRY CHURCH.--Its Description.--The "Corn-Cracker."--The News.--Strange Disclosure. 180

  CHAPTER X.--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. 196

  CHAPTER XI.--THE PURSUIT.--The Start.--"Carolina Race-Horses."--A Race.--We Lose the Trail.--A Tornado.--A Narrow Escape.-- 207

  CHAPTER XII.--THE YANKEE SCHOOLMISTRESS.--Our New Apparel.--"Kissing Goes by Favor."--Schools at the South. 222

  CHAPTER XIII.--THE RAILWAY STATION.--The Village.--A Drunken Yankee.--A Narrow Escape.--Andy Jones.--A Light-Wood Fire.--The Colonel's Departure. 227

  CHAPTER XIV.--THE BARBACUE.--The Camp-Ground.--The Stump-Speaker.--A Stump Speech.--Almost a Fight.--The Manner of Roasting the Ox. 239

  CHAPTER XV.--THE RETURN.--Arrival at the Plantation.--Disappearance of Juley and her child.--The Old Preacher's Story.--Scene Between the Master and the Slave. 253

  CHAPTER XVI.--"ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE."--Attempted Whipping of Jim.--Appearance of the "Corn-Cracker."--"Drowned.--Drowned." 260

  CHAPTER XVII.--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. 277

  CHAPTER XVIII.--THE BURIAL OF JULE.--"He Tempers the Wind to the Shorn Lamb."--The Funeral. 295

  CHAPTER XIX.--HOMEWARD BOUND.--Colonel A---- Again.--Parting with Scipio.--Why this Book was Written. 298

  CHAPTER XX.--CONCLUSION.--The Author's Explanations.--Last News from Moye and Scipio.--Affecting Letter from Andy Jones.--The End. 303