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Frontispiece
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
I. My Ancestors—Birth—A Circumstance Remembered at Eighteen Months of Age—Convicted of Sin—Waiting on the Preachers—Impressions to Preach
II. Insane Hospital—Use of Tobacco—Old Sister Carper—Attending Conferences—A Contemplated Trip—Brother Whitehead—Consulting Physicians—At the Hospital—My First Night at the Hospital
III. Becoming Acquainted with the Inmates—Deceptions of the Officers and Nurses—The First Day—At Prayers with General John H. Forney—The First Sabbath—Left with Austin—Card-Playing on the Sabbath—Forney Moore—Mr. Jones—John Lanthrop—A Maniac—Starving for Water
IV. Mr. Perkins—Letters from Home—Dr. Bryce and the Officers—Dr. Davis, the Turkey-Hunter—The Hypodermic—Coming from the Singing—Wounds from the Hypodermic—Refusal to Submit—Dr. Wyman—The Magic Lantern
V. The Wardmasters and Mistresses—Literary Club—Dr. Wyman the President—The Ball—The Billard Room—The Singing—Mrs. Bryce—Put in the Cross-Hall for Pronouncing Benediction—Captain Rucker—Interview with Dr. Bryce—Perkins and Wyman Offended—Perkins Putting Me in the Cross-Hall—Friends Not Admitted
VI. Mr. Perkins's Rebuke—Mr. Perkins Nonplussed—A Circumstance that Occurred in the Legislature at Tuscaloosa—Major David Conner—The Telephone—My Sermon
VII. Friarson and Jones—Deception of Massingale, a Nurse—What Mr. Davis Wrote on the Margin of a Paper—Confined in My Cell—Mr. Nuckles—Brother Gilland and the Bible Relic—Mr. Stagers, a Nurse—Mr. Bowen, a Nurse—Gilland like General Jackson
VIII. The First Man Ever in the Asylum—Young Weed, a Patient—Mr. Parish—Dr. Byron—Dr. Goree—Asking the Blessing at Table
IX. Nuckles's Church-Letter—A Walk to the Coal Mine and Graveyard—Much Affected—Seeing Brother Patton's Grave—The Beautiful Pebbles—Nuckles's Conversation—Character of Rev. Edward Patton—Brothers Samuel and John Patton and Sister McLelland—The Wrong Number of Graves—Not Permitted to Return to the Cemetery—Miss Jones and the Tea-Cakes
X. My Son's Arrival—Our Conversation—The Walk Next Day with Mr. Nuckles—I Would Not Tell a Lie—His Treatment—Nearly Starved for Food and Water—Breaking the Glass to Make Them Notice—Robbing Me of My Wife s Letters and Bible—Nuckles Left, and Massingale in Charge—The Nashville Christian Advocate— The Christian Herald
XI. Writ of Habeas Corpus—Dr. Guild—The Margin of the Christian Herald, and Spectacle-Case—The Note Intercepted—Davis Prosecuted—Nearly Dead—T. Jones Saved My Life—Hunger
XII. Massingale and Steadmire—Locked in the Cell—Vengeance Sworn—Nearly Choked to Death by Aaron Burr Yarborough—Davis and Jones Incarcerated—Thomas Nee Smith, a Patient—Parker, Presiding Elder—Smith's Lie about Blake—His Escape through a Window—Tried to Die—My Fears that He Was Dead—The Contract—Cutting His Handcuffs and Scaling the Wall—Poor Nee Smith!—Mr. Hall, a Wardmaster—Mr. Zachariah Jones, Nightwatchman, and Obadiah Jones, Wardmaster—Zachariah's Wife's Death, and Its Effect on Her Son Obadiah—Zach's Kindness—My Fall off the Stool—A Broken Nose
XIII. The Asylum—The Cattle—Captain Lay's Accounts—Requested to Perform His Marriage Ceremony—Aaron Burr Yarborough Again—Mr. Ryan, the Catholic—Cooper Lee—Transubstantiation of the Bread and Wine—The Priest's Horse, Bob—Threatened Me with a Spell
XIV. Mr. Ford—Sherman, Who Professed Having the Power to Raise the Dead—Dr. Coleman, a Patient—Hints Toward the Management of an Asylum—Mr. Ramsey—Dr. Neilson—An Incident He Related—Praying Personally for Friends—Marcus Cruikshank
XV. Settlement in Alabama—Gen. Chinnobee and Jim Fife—Fortifications Near the City of Talladega—Massacre at Fort Mims—Captain Jackson—Chinnobee's Strategy with the Red Sticks—Army Crossing the Coosa—Jackson Lay on a Mound in Mrs. English's Field—The Jackson Trace—The Battle at Talladega—An Officer Cashiered—Bill Scott, the Silversmith—General Coffee—Fife, the Interpreter—Gen'l Chinnobee's Gun—Jackson's Statement of Chinnobee's Bravery—The Cold Saturday—A Trip to Mobile—A Collision of Chippewah and Farmer—Death of Chinnobee—Wheat, the Emigrating Agent—Jackson Surprised at Emuckfaugh—The Battle of Horse-Shoe—Sam Houston
XVI. Coffee—The Escape of the Indians—Chinnobee Camp-Ground—Conversion of Coffee—Family Prayers Three Times a Day—Local Preachers—Zeal of Judge Tarrant—Henry Seay, the Colored Preacher—Rev. E. J. Hamill—Judge J. E. Groce—Judge Tarrant's Honesty—Land Speculators—Cause of the Creek Indian War in 1836—Judge Tarrant's Death
XVII. The Discovery of Alabama by De Soto
XVIII. First Settlers of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—Their Character—French Customs and Manners
XIX. The Slave, His Adaptation to the Southern Climate and for Labor—His Mental and Moral Capacity—The Progress of Wealth and Science During the Two Hundred Years of American Slavery
XX. Early Days in Georgia and Alabama—Rolling Tobacco to Market—Finger-Picking Cotton-Gins—Tories at My Grandfather's House—The Truck-Wagon—Ladies Walking to Church—A Trip to the Old Homestead—The Spring-House, Barn, and the Old Mill—My Two Old Aunts—Old Bethlehem—The Meeting at Brother Leg's
XXI. Stern Morality Demanded by Public Opinion—The Hardshell Baptist—First Methodist Circuit-Riders—The Circuit-Riders of Sixty-Five Years Ago—The Local Preachers—George M. Troupe, Governor of Georgia—Gen. Mclntosh—Removing the Indians from Georgia—John Quincy Adams—Hopothlegohola, Chief of the Creek Tribe—Crowell, the Indian Agent—Troupe's Firmness—Gens. Trigg and Clinch—Zachary Taylor—A Letter to the President—A Collision Prevented
XXII. The Slave-Trade—The Intentions of Divine Wisdom—John Wesley, the Founder of Methodism—Its Doctrines
XXIII. Camp-Meetings—Camp-Meeting at Concord—The Trumpet, and Manner of Worship—An Incident in Childhood—The Supposed Dead Man, William Matson, In a Trance—The Arbor and Tents—The Bible the Only Textbook—Charles James Fox—Eloquence and Oratory—The Efficiency of the Camp-Meeting—The Camp-Meeting at Night—Masters of Pulpit Oratory—Institutions of Learning
XXIV. The Memories of Childhood—The Boy a Father to the Man, and the Girl a Mother to the Woman—Nature's Hand—The School-Room—Fortune's Gifts—The Truly Great
XXV. Eli Bynum—Beloved Brethren at Coldwater Church—Harris Taylor and Brothers—A Few Who Yet Remain—Charles Carter, Colonel Thomas McElderry, J. L. and Jacob B. Seay—The Bachelor's Poem
Afterword: Biographical Note on Peter Bryce
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