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TO THE MEMORY
OF THOSE MEN AND WOMEN
WHO HAVE DIED ON SLAVERY'S STUBBLE-GROUND
IN THE WAR FOR SELF
PRESERVATION.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
The war is over-Southward ho!-A wonderful country............. 17
CHAPTER II.
First lessons-Colonel J. J. U. Black as teacher........
CHAPTER III.
A first day with the freedmen of Yazoo-What was accom-
plished by the war....
Jealous "Johnny Rebs "-Colonel J. J. U. Black in a new role... 45
CHAPTER IV.
An unsettled question-The diplomacy of babes......................................................................
CHAHTER VII.
Colonel Black's library-A new departure-Tokeba's jail-More
diplomacy-A Southerner's instincts........
CHAPTER VIII.
Charles' return-Reminiscences-Smoky Tokeba-Whisky as a
medicine..........
CHAPTER IX.
Blushes-More of the ways of the country-A deeper deep than
Mormonism .....
CHAPTER X.
A deeper deep-The wolf shows his teeth......
CHAPTER XI.
Lambs-"I'm a gentleman, by G-d, sir". -A new function for
Nasby....
CHAPTER XII.
A council of lambs-That "nigger school"-" Old Morgan "—
"Polecat Morgan
........
80
85
90
97
102
CHAPTER XIII.
Taffy, women and wine rs. the army of the United States-The
straw that broke our camel's back-A stalwart friend..... ...... 107
CHAPTER XIV.
Yazoo justice in 1867-Ten dollars and a "lick " for a year's hard
work-Was it in self-defense?-Questions remaining unsettled
to this day-O'oophie-Polecat...
CHAPTER XV.
Army worms and other worms--Our stalwart friend lassoed-
Another kind of fool's errand-How to get "rid'a the d-n
Yankees "-Hurrah for Colonel J. J. U. Black-Was Colonel
Black "agent in fact?".
CHAPTER XVI.
Recollections-An Appomattox "straw "-Charles' "new idea"
-Shall we surrender, run away, or fight it out on that line-
Weighty reasons why the battle should continue.......
CHAPTER XVII.
Charles' twenty millions gone glimmering-Sweet consolation-
Fame, and how to win it in Yazoo-True friends...........
CHAPTER XVIII.
A second day among the freed people in Yazoo-When, where,
how and why I became a dictator "-An election in Yazoo
when only niggers" vote..........
CHAPTER XIX.
The folly of wisdom-Courage of my new frien 's-A t iumphant
"vindication"—An "honest" differe ce of opinion-Unheeded
warnings.....
CHAPTER XX.
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129
134
140
......... 151
Deliverer and dictator-Counting the cost-Les Miserables-
Straw for bricks........
CHAPTER XXI.
156
The true value of friendship-None but black Americans on guard
to-night--An uncovered secret-"Snake," and their uses......... 167
CHAPTER XXII.
Wheat among tares-A human hornet-A "new-comer" of the
right sort for Yazoo -How "our friends up North" furnished
powder for "we all down South to burn under the n ses of
brave ex-Union soldiers-A "nest of vipers
Charles has a new experience-A slight indiscretion and a trial-
Courageous General Greenleaf, and true friends-More straw
for bricks..
CHAPTER XXIV.
At last-A murderer's cell!-That Yazoo jail in 1868-What Mr.
Barksdale did-The good Samaritan-Uncle Jonathan sees the
kuklux-The wicked flee when none pursue..........................
176
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