Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. William Gilmore Simms: 1
6. The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens 15
7. Border Beagles: 25
8. Carl Werner, An Imaginative Story; With Other Tales Of Imagination 37
9. The Cassique of Kiawah: 50
10. Castle Dismal; or, The Bachelor’s Christmas 60
11. Confession; or, The Blind Heart 71
12. The Damsel of Darien 83
13. Dramas: 97
14. Egeria; or, Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside 110
15. The Golden Christmas: 117
16. Guy Rivers: 128
17. Helen Halsey; or, the Swamp State of Conelachita. 139
18. Historical and Political Poems: 149
19. History and Geography: 165
20. The Kentucky Tragedy Romances: 176
21. Library of American Books: 189
22. The Life of Captain John Smith. 200
23. The Life of the Chevalier Bayard; “The Good Knight,” “Sans peur et sans reproche” 208
24. The Life of Francis Marion 222
25. The Lily and the Totem; or, The Huguenots in Florida 234
26. Marie de Berniere: 257
27. Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal; and Other Tales 269
28. Poems: 279
29. The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson, with a Memoir of His Life 287
30. The Revolutionary Romances: 295
31. Richard Hurdis: 317
32. Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, SC 329
33. Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond 347
34. Simms’s Poems: 362
35. Social and Political Prose: 374
36. South-Carolina in the Revolutionary War 386
37. Southward Ho! A Spell of Sunshine 392
38. The Spanish Romances: 405
39. A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare 419
40. Vasconselos: 429
41. War Poetry of the South 442
42. Woodcraft; or, Hawks about the Dovecote 455
43. The Yemassee: 467
44. Bibliography 485
45. Contributors 515
46. Index 519