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ANTE BELLUM. SOUTHERN LIFE AS IT WAS.

BY

MARY LENNOX.

PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1868.
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Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO
THE FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH
THESE PAGES
ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

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PREFACE.

A GENEROUS enemy will forgive us for taking a retrospective view of scenes that in a few years will fade from our memories; and although they may consider these home pictures too highly colored by a prejudiced hand, you, my friends, will recognize the accuracy of the drawing, and cast with me one last, fond, lingering look on our Southern homes as they existed before the red hand of war made them desolate. If the sentiments expressed in these pages should give offense to any, it must be remembered that they only indicate in a slight degree that feeling which helped to bring about the long and bloody war; and as it was my desire to adhere strictly to facts, I have been compelled to slightly introduce a trite subject. With the hope that these truthful sketches of Southern life may divert for a brief season your thoughts from the dull monotony of the present gloomy state of our country, as they have mine, I cast forth upon the uncertain billows this frail bark freighted with delightful memories of the happy past.

MARY LENNOX.

COLUMBUS, GA., July 15th, 1867.
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