The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
by Thomas Dixon
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About This Book
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author. In popular literature, two early 20th-century novels by Dixon—The Leopard's A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900 (1902) and The Clansman (1905)— romanticized white resistance in the south to the reforms of the Reconstruction era intended to make American blacks equal, hailing vigilante action by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Film director D. W. Griffith gained fame for his adaptation of The Clansman for the screen in The ...
Chapters (106)
- THE SOUTHERNER
- A ROMANCE OF THE REAL LINCOLN
- THOMAS DIXON
- dedicated to our first southern-born president since lincoln, my friend and collegemate
- WOODROW WILSON
- TO THE READER
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY
- THE SOUTHERNER
- PROLOGUE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- The Story
- CHAPTER I
- THE MAN OF THE HOUR
- CHAPTER II
- JANGLING VOICES
- CHAPTER III
- IN BETTY'S GARDEN
- CHAPTER IV
- A PAIR OF YOUNG EYES
- CHAPTER V
- THE FIRST SHOT
- CHAPTER VI
- THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
- CHAPTER VII
- LOVE AND DUTY
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE TRIAL BY FIRE
- CHAPTER IX
- VICTORY IN DEFEAT
- CHAPTER X
- THE AWAKENING
- CHAPTER XI
- THE MAN ON HORSEBACK
- CHAPTER XII
- LOVE AND PRIDE
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE SPIRES OF RICHMOND
- CHAPTER XIV
- THE RETREAT
- CHAPTER XV
- TANGLED THREADS
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE CHALLENGE
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE DAY'S WORK
- CHAPTER XVIII
- DIPLOMACY
- CHAPTER XIX
- THE REBEL
- CHAPTER XX
- THE INSULT
- CHAPTER XXI
- THE BLOODIEST DAY
- CHAPTER XXII
- BENEATH THE SKIN
- CHAPTER XXIII
- THE USURPER
- CHAPTER XXIV
- THE CONSPIRACY
- CHAPTER XXV
- THE TUG OF WAR
- CHAPTER XXVI
- THE REST HOUR
- CHAPTER XXVII
- DEEPENING SHADOWS
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- THE MOONLIT RIVER
- CHAPTER XXIX
- THE PANIC
- CHAPTER XXX
- SUNSHINE AND STORM
- CHAPTER XXXI
- BETWEEN THE LINES
- CHAPTER XXXII
- THE WHIRLWIND
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- THE BROTHERS MEET
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- LOVE'S PLEDGE
- CHAPTER XXXV
- THE DARKEST HOUR
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- THE ASSASSIN
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- MR. DAVIS SPEAKS
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- THE STOLEN MARCH
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- VICTORY
- CHAPTER XL
- WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE
- THE END
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