A Glance Backward: Or Some Events in the Past History of My Life

Excerpt from A Glance Backward: Or Some Events in the Past History of My Life

I cannot refrain at the outset from attempting a faint description of the old South as I knew it in the days of my boyhood. Of course I cannot by any means draw a proper picture for the reader, and will not attempt what I regard as a poor description of what has always seemed to me an ideal country. My view was limited to the imme diate section in which I was reared between the Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers, which met and intermingled their waters some twenty odd miles south of my immediate locality. The town of Eutaw, in the County of Greene, Alabama, was one of thriving business for one located in the northern edge of this splendid prairie land, and the whole section immediately south formed the fork of Greene County. But what I say of this locality will suffice to sum up the description of all similar sections in the cotton regions of the South.

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