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Title: Among the Pines
or, South in Secession Time

Author: James R. Gilmore

Release Date: October 11, 2007 [eBook #22960]

Language: English

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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, 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.

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.--Renconte