A Georgian who spent most of his life in the Old Southwest records his recollections of the men he knew or heard of, from Georgia politicians and judges to figures of Mississippi and Louisiana, with scenes of frontier and plantation life. His affectionate picture of the slaveholding South is that of a white Southerner writing in 1870.
A storehouse of anecdote for historians of the antebellum South, to be read with its point of view in mind. Download the free EPUB.