A LITTLE UNION SCOUT By Joel Chandler Harris Illustrated by George Gibbs LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS I drank in the melody with a new sense of its wild and melancholy beauty Frontispiece Facing page "He's tryin' to git away!" yelled Forrest in a voice that could be heard all over the field 10 "I want you to catch this fellow and fetch him to me" 38 Whistling Jim ran into him head down like a bull 64 I was wild with remorse and grief 96 "If hate could kill you, you would fall dead from this horse" 110 The leader ... had an evil-looking eye 138 He had me covered 156
STORIES OF GEORGIA By Joel Chandler Harris
CONTENTS PREFACE. STORIES OF GEORGIA. A SEARCH FOR TREASURE. OGLETHORPE AND HIS GENTLE COLONY THE EMPRESS OF GEORGIA THE LIBERTY BOYS. A GROUP OF CHARACTERS AUNT NANCY HART. TWO SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. A WAR OF EXTERMINATION. A NEGRO PATRIOT. THE YAZOO FRAUD GEORGE MATTHEWS AND JOHN CLARKE. AFTER THE REVOLUTION. THE COTTON GIN. SOME GEORGIA INVENTIONS. THE EARLY PROGRESS OF THE STATE. THE CREEKS AND THE CREEK WAR TWO FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS. REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEES. THE BEGINNING OF PARTIES IN GEORGIA. A QUEER CASE. GEORGIA WIT AND HUMOR. SLAVERY AND SECESSION. THE FARMER BOY OF GADDISTOWN. GEORGIA IN THE WAR. A DARING ADVENTURE. THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. "THE NEW SOUTH" ILLUSTRATIONS De Soto Indian Queen Oglethorpe Mary Musgrove Empress Mary The Liberty Boys Tondee's Tavern Seisure of Ammunition in Savannah The Head of Robert Sallette Mcgirth and his Mare Captain Rory Mcintosh Aunt Nancy Hart Aunt Nancy Captures the Tories General James Jackson Elijah Clarke A War of Extermination Old Man Whipped at the Tail of a Cart A Negro Patriot The Yazoo Scheme Rope to Hang Musgrove George Matthews and John Clarke After the Revolution Early Cultivation of Cotton Whitney and his Cotton Gin William Longstreet and his Steamboat Laughing Gas Early Progress of the State British Impressement of Americans The Creek War Major Adams Scouting and Indian Camp Mcgillavray Joins the Indians Indian Attack General Clarke Whips Judge Tait A Queer Case The Bunkley Trial Judge Dooly The Roast Pig Georgia Politics Joe Brown and his Steers Georgia in the War The Salt Famine Capture of the Locomotive Tearing up the Rails The Negroes Freed Streetcar in the South