The old South

Chapter 1: THE OLD SOUTH

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A reflective monograph blends personal recollection and historical argument to examine Southern society in the nineteenth century, focusing on its social habits, political influence, and military traditions. The author contrasts regional temperaments with northern counterparts, traces elite cultural formation and public leadership, and assesses how honor, martial skill, and classical rhetoric shaped civic life. Combining anecdote, appraisal of statesmanship and battlefield leadership, and discussion of institutional legacy, the narrative weighs virtues and faults without simple vindication, urging measured remembrance and critical appraisal of a complex regional past.

UNCLE JEFF SHIELDS, LEXINGTON, VA.

THE
OLD SOUTH

A Monograph

H. M. HAMILL, D.D.

Smith & Lamar, Agents, Publishing House of the
· · · Methodist Episcopal Church, South · · ·
Dallas, Texas · · · Nashville, Tennessee

The subject-matter of this little book first took form in an address before the students of Emory College, Oxford, Ga., in June, 1904. If apology be needed for putting it in type, the writer finds it in the request of an old woman, now eighty-six years of age, a true daughter of the Old South, whose lightest wish has been the law of his life for more than fifty years.