On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War

A young boy on a Georgia plantation comes of age amid the Civil War, apprenticing at a country printing office where he learns typesetting, contributes short pieces, and hears many storytellers. He spends afternoons outdoors, earns money hunting rabbits for a local hat-maker, and observes plantation routines and wartime anxieties: patrols, rumors of uprisings, and the domestic grief caused by distant battles. The narrative moves through episodes of tracking runaways, encounters with deserters, a fox-hunt, and other adventures that mix practical detail, local character sketches, and humorous and moral tales of rural life during wartime.