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Strange True Stories of Louisiana is George Washington Cable’s compilation of seven unusual, factual accounts of life and history in the area. They include tales of two French sisters who made the dangerous trek to the unsettled lands of north Louisiana at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Focusing on New Orleans, Cable adds the story of “The ‘Haunted House’ in Royal Street,” which spurs the imaginations of ghost hunters more than a century after its original writing. In the first published form, there is also a diary account from the Civil War of a Union woman trapped behind the battle lines. A celebrated journalist of his time, George Washington Cable became best known for his writings from New Orleans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the author of numerous news pieces and books, including Old Creole Days and The Creoles of Louisiana. CONTENTS. HOW I GOT THEM THE YOUNG AUNT WITH WHITE HAIR THE ADVENTURES OF FRANÇOISE AND SUZANNE. I. The Two Sisters II. Making Up The Expedition III. The Embarkation IV. Alix Carpentier V. Down Bayou Plaquemine.—the Fight With Wild Nature VI. The Twice-married Countess VII. Odd Partners In The Bolero Dance VIII. A Bad Storm In A Bad Place IX. Maggie And The Robbers X. Alix Puts Away The Past XI. Alix Plays Fairy.—parting Tears. XII. Little Paris XIII. The Countess Madelaine XIV. "Poor Little Alix!" XV. The Discovery Of The Hat XVI. The Ball XVII. Picnic And Farewell ALIX DE MORAINVILLE SALOME MÜLLER, THE WHITE SLAVE. I. Salome and her Kindred II. Six Months at Anchor III. Famine at Sea IV. Sold into Bondage V. The Lost Orphans VI. Christian Roselius VII. Miller Versus Belmonti VIII. The Trial IX. The Evidence X. The Crowning Proof XI. Judgment XII. Before the Supreme Court THE "HAUNTED HOUSE" IN ROYAL STREET. I. As It Stands Now II. Madame Lalaurie III. A Terrible Revelation IV. The Lady's Flight V. A New Use VI. Evictions ATTALIE BROUILLARD. I. Furnished Rooms II. John Bull III. Ducour's Meditations IV. Proxy V. The Nuncupative Will VI. Men can be Better than their Laws WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH I. Secession II. The Volunteers.—Fort Sumter III. Tribulation IV. A Beleaguered City V. Married VI. How it was in Arkansas VII. The Fight for Food and Clothing VIII. Drowned out and starved out IX. Homeless and Shelterless X. Frights and Perils in Steele's Bayou XI. Wild Times in Mississippi XII. Vicksburg XIII. Preparations for the Siege XIV. The Siege itself XV. Gibraltar falls

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Our camp was in the heart of Copiah County, Mississippi, a mile or so west of Gallatin and about six miles east of that once robber-haunted road, the Natchez Trace. Austin's brigade, we were, a detached body of mixed Louisiana and Mississippi cavalry, getting our breath again after two weeks' hard fighting of Grant. Grierson's raid had lately gone the entire length of the State, and we had had a hard, vain chase after him, also. Joe Johnston's shattered army was at Jackson, about forty-five miles to northward; beleaguered Vicksburg was in the Northwest, a trifle farther away; Natchez lay southwest, still more distant; and nearly twice as far in the south was our heartbroken New Orleans. We had paused to recuperate our animals, and there was a rumor that we were to get new clothing. Anyhow we had rags with honor, and a right to make as much noise as we chose. It was being made. The air was in anguish with the din of tree-felling and log-chopping, of stamping, neighing, braying, whooping, guffawing, and singing--all the daybreak charivari beloved of a camp of Confederate "critter companies." In the midst of it a chum and I sat close together on a log near the mess fire, and as the other boys of the mess lifted their heads from their saddle-tree pillows, from two of them at once came a slow, disdainful acceptance of the final lot of the wicked, made unsolicited on discovering that this chum and I had sat there talking together all night. I had the day before been wheedled into letting myself be detailed to be a quartermaster's clerk, and this comrade and I were never to snuggle under the one blanket again. The thought forbade slumber. "If I go to sleep," I said,--"you know how I dream. I shall have one of those dreams of mine to carry around in my memory for a year, like a bullet in my back." So there the dear fellow had sat all night to give me my hourly powders of reassurance that I could be a quartermaster's clerk without shame.

True stories are not often good art. The relations and experiences of real men and women rarely fall in such symmetrical order as to make an artistic whole. Until they have had such treatment as we give stone in the quarry or gems in the rough they seldom group themselves with that harmony of values and brilliant unity of interest that result when art comes in—not so much to transcend nature as to make nature transcend herself. Yet I have learned to believe that good stories happen oftener than once I thought they did. Within the last few years there have dropped into my hands by one accident or another a number of these natural crystals, whose charms, never the same in any two, are in each and all enough at least to warn off all tampering of the fictionist. Happily, moreover, without being necessary one to another, they yet have a coherent sequence, and follow one another like the days of a week. They are mine only by right of discovery. From various necessities of the case I am sometimes the story-teller, and sometimes, in the reader's interest, have to abridge; but I add no fact and trim naught of value away. Here are no unconfessed "restorations," not one. In time, place, circumstance, in every essential feature, I give them as I got them—strange stories that truly happened, all partly, some wholly, in Louisiana.

The relations and experiences of real men and women rarely fall in such, symmetrical order as to make an artistic whole. Until they have had snch treatment as we give stone in the quarry or gems in the rough they seldom group themselves with that harmony of values and brilliant unity of interest that result when art comes in not so much to transcend nature as to make nature transcend herself. Yet I have learned to believe that good stories happen oftener than once I thought they did. Within the last few years there have dropped into my hands by one accident or another a number of these natural crystals, whose charms, never the same in any two, are in each and all enough at least to warn off all tampering of the fictionist.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

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