Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 41730-h.htm or 41730-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41730/41730-h/41730-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41730/41730-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/dixieafterwarexp00avar DIXIE AFTER THE WAR [Illustration: JEFFERSON DAVIS After his prison life Copyright 1867, by Anderson] DIXIE AFTER THE WAR An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond. by MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY Author of "A Virginia Girl in the Civil War" With an Introduction by General Clement A. Evans Illustrated from old paintings, daguerreotypes and rare photographs New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1906 Copyright, 1906, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published September, 1906 All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian To THE MEMORY OF MY BROTHER, PHILIP LOCKETT, (_First Lieutenant, Company G, 14th Virginia Infantry, Armistead's Brigade, Pickett's Division, C. S. A._) _Entering the Confederate Army, when hardly more than a lad, he followed General Robert E. Lee for four years, surrendering at Appomattox. He was in Pickett's immortal charge at Gettysburg, and with Armistead when Armistead fell on Cemetery Hill._ The faces I see before me are those of young men. Had you not been this I would not have appeared alone as the defender of my southland, but for love of her I break my silence and speak to you. Before you lies the future--a future full of golden promise, full of recompense for noble endeavor, full of national glory before which the world will stand amazed. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, and all bitter sectional feeling, and take your place in the rank of those who will bring about a conciliation out of which will issue a reunited country.--_From an address by Jefferson Davis in his last years, to the young men of the South_ INTRODUCTION This book may be called a revelation. It seems to me a body of discoveries that should not be kept from the public--discoveries which have origin in many sources but are here brought together in one book for the first time.