I. WHEN TENNESSEE WAS YOUNG----------page 1
Once A County of North Carolina - Becomes a State - Memorials of a Vanished Race - Indian
Tribes and Their Depredations - First Settler of DeKalb County - Indian Battle Near the Site
of Liberty - Game.
II. DEKALB COUNTY ESTABLISHED - OFFICIALS----------page 9
Bill to Erect the County - Sundry Changes in the Line - Organization of County, Circuit, and
Chancery Courts - Topography - Resources and Leading Crops - Live Stock - Principal Streams - Early Mills - Politics
- County Officers - Senators and Representatives.
III. THE OLDEST VILLAGE----------page 22
First Settler Arrives at Liberty - Sketch of Adam Dale - First Merchants - Rise of the Dale Mill Settlement - Present Business Directory - Changes Since Early Times - Reminiscences of Mrs. Payne and Dr. Foster - Postal Affairs - Professional Men - Landmarks.
IV. PASTIMES OF THE FOREPARENTS----------page 39
Social Matters - Primitive Music - Horse-Racing - Ariel, Noted Racer - Musters Great Occasions - The Chase - Hospitality - A Bibulous Generation - Cheapness of Intoxicants.
V. FARMING AND MERCHANDISING----------page 48
Land Warrants - Hemp and Cotton Crops - Breeds of Stock - Prices for Produce - The Day of Homespun Clothes - The Village Stores and Long-Ago Prices - Men's and Women's Fashions.
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VI. RELATING TO EDUCATION----------page 56
Old Field and Other Schools - Textbooks of Old Times - Punishments in School - Games - Earliest School in the County - Early and Latter-Day Tutors - Educational Institutions at Liberty, Alexandria, and Smithville.
VII. RELIGIOUS HISTORY----------page 67
Salem Baptist Church - First Ministers, Deacons, and Clerks - Exhorters - Other Baptist Churches - Methodism and Its Two "Wings" - Interesting Personal Mention - Cumberland Presbyterians and Disciples - Memories of Rev. J. W. Collum.
VIII. ANNALS OF ALEXANDRIA----------page 88
The Pioneers - Incorporation - Business Men of Past and Present - Professional Men - Banks - Journalism - Milling Interests - A. and M. Association - Colored Fair - Personal References.
IX. CONCERNING SLAVES AND FREE NEGROES----------page 98
Negro Insurrections - Some Owners of Slaves - Locally Popular Types - A Colored Infidel - Three Notable "Runaways" - A Pathetic Story - Family of Free Negroes - Ante-Bellum Laws - Negroes in the War.
X. STAGECOACH AND TAVERN DAYS----------page 106
The Turnpike Company Incorporated - The Route Surveyed - A Tragedy - Old Stage Road - Noted Taverns - General Jackson and Other Notables - Balls - Sligo - Scenery.
XI. THE COUNTY SEAT----------page 119
"Macon" First Name Selected - Public Buildings - Incorporation - Names of Lawyers and Judges - Early and Late Business Men, Physicians, Postmasters, and Others - Banking and Journalism - Hotels - Necrological.
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XII. HISTORICAL JETSAM----------page 128
Physical Giants - Tall Men and Short - Two Erudite Physicians - Mysterious Disappearances - Story of a Monument - Study in Names - Noted Expatriates - Folk Stories.
XIII. SMALLER VILLAGES OF THE COUNTY----------page 139
Temperance Hall - The Stokeses and Other Families - Merchants, Physicians, and Others - Sketch of Dowelltown - The Gray Graveyard - Schools - Laurel Hill - Past and Present History - Forks-of-the-Pike and Keltonsburg.
XIV. IN THE EARLY WARS----------page 151
Revolutionary Soldiers - Veterans of 1812 - Captains Tubb and Dale - Was There a Third Company? - Black Hawk War Veterans - DeKalb Troops in the War with Mexico.
XV. SECESSION - DEKALB CONFEDERATES----------page 162
The Question of Secession - How DeKalb County Voted - Period of Intense Excitement - Call for Confederate Troops - Muster Rolls of DeKalb Confederates.
XVI. STOKES'S CAVALRY----------page 185
Companies from DeKalb County - Promotions, Resignations, and Deaths - Muster Rolls - In Many Engagements in Various Parts of the State - Sketch of General Stokes.
XVII. BLACKBURN'S AND GARRISON'S FEDERALS----------page 194
Sketches of Colonel Blackburn and Captain Garrison - Blackburn a Captain at Eighteen - Officers and Privates - Affair at Shelbyville - Casualty List.
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XVIII. PROGRESS OF THE BIG WAR----------page 208
Battles in the County Named - Morgan's Command - Camps at Liberty - Capt. Thomas Quirk - Battle of Milton - Scouting from Liberty - Exciting Days.
XIX. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES----------page 218
Noncombatants in War Times - Allison's Squadron - A Race and a Skirmish - Anecdote of Reece and Allison - Minor Tragedies - Skedaddling Stories - Boyish Memories.
XX. REGULAR AND GUERRILLA WARFARE----------page 229
Battle of Snow's Hill - Wheeler Arrives at Alexandria - Scouting Around That Town - Morgan Starts on His Northern Raid - Death of Morgan - Battle of the Calf Killer - Wheeler's Raid - Stockade Taken - Pomp Kersey's Men.
XXI. PEACE AND THE AFTERMATH----------page 244
Friction between Former Neighbors - The Freed Negroes - Loyal League and Ku-Klux Klan - Stokes's and Senter's Canvass - Makeshifts of the Citizens - Wonderful Latter-Day Progress.
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