Excerpt from Southern Silhouettes Perhaps as the old order of things in the South is rapidly passing into the realms of legend and tradition, the time has come when one who was part and parcel of that old order can appropriately put on record the story of a day that is dead. The sketches here compiled in book form after running their course in the New York Evening Post, are not the work of imagination, but are accurate out lines of actual entities, written with the loving desire to do away with some of the misconceptions that have militated against a true appreciation of what is noblest and best in the people of whom they treat. To those who demand plot and catastrophe for mental aliment this book is offered with an apology. To those who are avid of the truth, whatever guise it assumes, it is offered with confidence. If it serves but to shed the illumination of a taper upon one obscured spot; if it but rescues the memory of one beautiful life from unmerited oblivion, it will not have been written in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.