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Southern Literature From 1579–1895

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  1. 1Epigraph — Preface
  2. 2List of Works for Reference
  3. 3First Period... 1579-1750
  4. 4Works
  5. 5Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas, or Matoaka
  6. 6Our Right to Those Countries, True Reasons for Plantations, Rare Ex…
  7. 7Ascent of the James River, 1607
  8. 8William Strachey
  9. 9Works
  10. 10A Storm Off the Bermudas
  11. 11John Lawson
  12. 12Work — North Carolina in 1700-1708
  13. 13Harvest Home of the Indians
  14. 14William Byrd
  15. 15Works
  16. 16Selecting the Site of Richmond and Petersburg, Sept., 1733
  17. 17A Visit to Ex-Governor Spotswood, 1732
  18. 18Dismal Swamp
  19. 19The Tuscarora Indians and Their Legend of a Christ
  20. 20Second Period... 1750-1800
  21. 21Works — A Patriot in the Tower
  22. 22George Washington
  23. 23Works
  24. 24An Honest Man
  25. 25How to Answer Calumny · Conscience — On His Appointment as Commande…
  26. 26A Military Dinner-Party
  27. 27Advice to a Favorite Nephew
  28. 28Passages From the Farewell Address to the People of the United Stat…
  29. 29Patrick Henry
  30. 30Works · Remark on Slavery — If This Be Treason, (Speech in House of…
  31. 31The Famous Revolution Speech, 1775
  32. 32William Henry Drayton
  33. 33George III.’s Abdication of Power in America
  34. 34Thomas Jefferson
  35. 35Works
  36. 36Political Maxims
  37. 37Religious Opinions at the Age of Twenty
  38. 38Scenery at Harper’s Ferry and at the Natural Bridge
  39. 39On Freedom of Religious Opinion — On the Discourses of Christ
  40. 40Religious Freedom
  41. 41Letter to His Daughter, Martha Jefferson
  42. 42David Ramsay
  43. 43Works
  44. 44Sermon on Tea, (1775) — British Treaty With the Cherokees, 1755
  45. 45Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie, 28th June, 1776
  46. 46Sumpter and Marion
  47. 47James Madison
  48. 48Works
  49. 49Opinion of Lafayette, (in Letters to Jefferson)
  50. 50Plea for a Republic, Although a New Form of Government
  51. 51Character of Washington
  52. 52St. George Tucker
  53. 53Works
  54. 54Resignation, or Days of My Youth
  55. 55John Marshall
  56. 56Works
  57. 57Power of the Supreme Court of the United States
  58. 58The Duties of a Judge
  59. 59Henry Lee
  60. 60Work
  61. 61Capture of Fort Motte by Lee and Marion, May, 1780
  62. 62The Father of His Country
  63. 63Mason Locke Weems
  64. 64Works — The Hatchet Story
  65. 65John Drayton
  66. 66Works
  67. 67A Revolutionary Object Lesson in the Cause of Patriotism, April 1775
  68. 68The Battle of Noewee, Between the South Carolinians and the Cheroke…
  69. 69William Wirt
  70. 70Works
  71. 71The Blind Preacher, (James Waddell)
  72. 72Mr. Henry Against John Hook
  73. 73John Randolph
  74. 74Works
  75. 75The Revision of the State Constitution
  76. 76George Tucker
  77. 77Works
  78. 78Jefferson’s Preference for Country Life
  79. 79Establishment of the University of Virginia
  80. 80Third Period... 1800-1850
  81. 81Works
  82. 82To Be Right Above All · No Geographical Lines in Patriotism — Milit…
  83. 83Francis Scott Key
  84. 84Works — The Star-Spangled Banner
  85. 85John James Audubon
  86. 86The Mocking-Bird
  87. 87The Humming-Bird
  88. 88Thomas Hart Benton
  89. 89Works
  90. 90The Duel Between Randolph and Clay
  91. 91John Caldwell Calhoun
  92. 92Works
  93. 93War and Peace — System of Our Government
  94. 94Defence of Nullification
  95. 95The Wise Choice
  96. 96Official Patronage
  97. 97Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
  98. 98Works
  99. 99The Partisan Leader, (Written in 1836)
  100. 100David Crockett
  101. 101Works
  102. 102Spelling and Grammar — His Prologue
  103. 103On a Bear Hunt
  104. 104Richard Henry Wilde
  105. 105Works — My Life Is Like the Summer Rose
  106. 106Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
  107. 107Works
  108. 108Ned Brace at Church
  109. 109A Sage Conversation
  110. 110Robert Young Hayne
  111. 111Works
  112. 112State Sovereignty and Liberty
  113. 113Sam Houston
  114. 114Cause of the Texan War of Independence
  115. 115Battle of San Jacinto
  116. 116How to Deal With the Indians
  117. 117William Campbell Preston
  118. 118Works
  119. 119Literary Society in Columbia, 1825
  120. 120John Pendleton Kennedy
  121. 121Works
  122. 122A Country Gentleman in Virginia
  123. 123His Wife
  124. 124How Horse-Shoe and Andrew Captured Five Men
  125. 125Hugh Swinton Legaré
  126. 126Works — Commerce and Wealth vs. War
  127. 127Demosthenes’ Courage
  128. 128A Duke’s Opinions of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia
  129. 129Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
  130. 130Works
  131. 131The Daughter of Mendoza
  132. 132Francis Lister Hawks
  133. 133Works
  134. 134The First Indian Baptism in America
  135. 135Virginia Dare, the First English Child Born in America
  136. 136The Lost Colony of Roanoke
  137. 137George Denison Prentice
  138. 138Works
  139. 139The Closing Year
  140. 140Paragraphs
  141. 141Edward Coate Pinkney
  142. 142Works — A Health
  143. 143Song
  144. 144Charles Étienne Arthur Gayarré
  145. 145Works
  146. 146Louisiana in 1750-1770
  147. 147The Tree of the Dead
  148. 148Matthew Fontaine Maury
  149. 149Works
  150. 150The Gulf Stream
  151. 151Deep-Sea Soundings
  152. 152Heroic Death of Lieutenant Herndon
  153. 153William Gilmore Simms
  154. 154Works
  155. 155Sonnet — The Poet’s Vision
  156. 156The Doom of Occonestoga
  157. 157Marion — “The Swamp Fox”
  158. 158Robert Edward Lee
  159. 159Works
  160. 160To His Son · At the Surrender — General Lee’s Last Order
  161. 161Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College
  162. 162Jefferson Davis
  163. 163Works
  164. 164Trip to Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to General Jackson
  165. 165Life of the President of the United States
  166. 166Farewell to the Senate, 1861, on the Occasion of the Secession of M…
  167. 167Edgar Allan Poe
  168. 168Works
  169. 169Israfel
  170. 170Happiness
  171. 171The Raven
  172. 172Robert Toombs
  173. 173Works
  174. 174Farewell to the Senate, 1861
  175. 175Octavia Walton le Vert
  176. 176Works — To Cadiz From Havanna, 1855
  177. 177Louisa Susannah M’Cord
  178. 178Works — Woman’s Duty
  179. 179Joseph G. Baldwin
  180. 180Works — Virginians in a New Country
  181. 181Alexander Hamilton Stephens
  182. 182Works — Laws of Government
  183. 183Sketch in the Senate, Feb. 5, 1850
  184. 184True Courage
  185. 185Alexander Beaufort Meek
  186. 186Works
  187. 187Red Eagle, or Weatherford
  188. 188Philip Pendleton Cooke
  189. 189Works — Florence Vane
  190. 190Theodore O’Hara
  191. 191Works — The Bivouac of the Dead
  192. 192Fourth Period... 1850-1894
  193. 193Works — Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles
  194. 194Richard Malcolm Johnston
  195. 195Works
  196. 196Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery
  197. 197John Reuben Thompson
  198. 198Ashby
  199. 199Music in Camp
  200. 200Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
  201. 201Works — Relations Between England and America
  202. 202Margaret Junkin Preston
  203. 203Works — The Shade of the Trees
  204. 204Charles Henry Smith
  205. 205Works — Big John, on the Cherokees
  206. 206St. George H. Tucker
  207. 207Works — Burning of Jamestown in 1676
  208. 208George William Bagby
  209. 209Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing
  210. 210Sarah Anne Dorsey
  211. 211Works — A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, 1866
  212. 212Henry Timrod
  213. 213Works
  214. 214Sonnet
  215. 215English Katie
  216. 216Hymn Sung at the Consecration of Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C.
  217. 217Paul Hamilton Hayne
  218. 218Works
  219. 219The Mocking-Bird — (At Night.)
  220. 220Sonnet — October
  221. 221A Dream of the South Wind
  222. 222John Esten Cooke
  223. 223Works
  224. 224The Races in Virginia, 1765
  225. 225Zebulon Baird Vance
  226. 226Works — Changes Wrought by the War
  227. 227Albert Pike
  228. 228Works
  229. 229To the Mocking-Bird
  230. 230William Tappan Thompson
  231. 231Works
  232. 232Major Jones’s Christmas Present to Mary Stallings
  233. 233James Barron Hope
  234. 234Works — The Victory at Yorktown
  235. 235Washington and Lee
  236. 236James Wood Davidson
  237. 237Works
  238. 238The Beautiful and the Poetical
  239. 239Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.
  240. 240Works
  241. 241Salzburger Settlement in Georgia
  242. 242Mary Virginia Terhune
  243. 243Works — Letter — Describing Mary [Ball] Washington When a Young Girl
  244. 244Madam Washington at the Peace Ball
  245. 245Augusta Evans Wilson
  246. 246Works
  247. 247A Learned and Interesting Conversation
  248. 248Daniel Bedinger Lucas
  249. 249Works — The Land Where We Were Dreaming
  250. 250James Ryder Randall
  251. 251Works — My Maryland
  252. 252Abram Joseph Ryan
  253. 253Works
  254. 254William Gordon McCabe
  255. 255Works — Dreaming in the Trenches
  256. 256Sidney Lanier
  257. 257Works
  258. 258Song of the Chattahoochee
  259. 259What Is Music? — The Tide Rising in the Marshes
  260. 260James Lane Allen
  261. 261Works — Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795
  262. 262Joel Chandler Harris
  263. 263Works
  264. 264The Tar-Baby
  265. 265Robert Burns Wilson
  266. 266Works — Fair Daughter of the Sun
  267. 267Dedication — Sonnet
  268. 268“Christian Reid”
  269. 269Works
  270. 270Ascent of Mount Mitchell, Black Mountain, North Carolina
  271. 271Henry Woodfen Grady
  272. 272Works — The South Before the War
  273. 273Thomas Nelson Page
  274. 274Works
  275. 275Marse Chan’s Last Battle
  276. 276Mary Noailles Murfree
  277. 277Works
  278. 278The “Harnt” That Walks Chilhowee
  279. 279Danske Dandridge
  280. 280Works
  281. 281The Spirit and the Wood Sparrow
  282. 282Amélie Rives Chanler
  283. 283Works
  284. 284Tanis
  285. 285Grace King
  286. 286Works — La Grande Demoiselle
  287. 287Waitman Barbe
  288. 288Works — Sidney Lanier
  289. 289Madison Cawein
  290. 290Works — The Whippoorwill
  291. 291Dixie
  292. 292List of Authors
  293. 293Questions
  294. 294General Questions
  295. 295First Period, 1579-1750
  296. 296Second Period, 1750-1800
  297. 297Third Period, 1800-1850
  298. 298Fourth Period, 1850-1895
  299. 299Appendix

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