Research Catalog

Title

Thorns in the flesh : (A romance of the war and Ku-Klux periods) : a voice of vindication from the South in answer to "A fool's errand" and other slanders : syllabus ... / by N.J. Floyd ; many graphic illustrations.

Author

Floyd, N. J. (Nicholas Jackson), 1828-1918

Publication

• Philadelphia ; Cincinnati ; Chicago ; New York ; Boston ; Kansas City : Hubbard Bros., publishers, 1884.
• ©1884.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gregory, Edward Sanford, 1843-1884.
• Tourgeé, Albion W., 1838-1905.
• Bogert, J. Augustus
• King, Francis Scott
• Louderbach, James W.
• Nichols, D. (David), 1829-1911
• Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912
• Hubbard Bros., publisher

Description

607, [1] pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Southern States > Race relations > Fiction
• Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869) Fiction
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Fiction

Note

• "Copyright, according to Act of Congress, by N.J. Floyd, 1884."--verso of title page.
• Some plates are included in the pagination sequence.
• Some engravings by: [J. Augustus?] Bogert, D[avid] N[ichols?], [James W.?] Lauderbach, [William Ludwell?] Sheppard, and F[rancis] S[cott?] King.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. "Ranting rebels" -- ch. 2. Foul conspiracy -- ch. 3. An eccentric acquaintance -- ch. 4. A gentle Puritan -- ch. 5. A Southern home -- ch. 6. Seeking love and finding only politics -- ch. 7. Counter conspiracy -- ch. 8. The first Ku-Klux outrage -- ch. 9. A Puritan slaveholder -- ch. 10. Mars, Terpsichore and Cupid -- ch. 11. A lost clan -- ch. 12. Tadpoles and water-squarapins -- ch. 13. The old, old story -- ch. 14. The darling image in plastic clay -- ch. 15. The harp is on the willow -- ch. 16. Grim-visaged war -- ch. 17. Love and ethnology -- ch. 18. Warfare or brigandage? -- ch. 19. Extending military operations -- ch. 20. Gettysburg -- ch. 21. A borrowed picture -- ch. 22. Prison life and amusements -- ch. 23. A lull in the storm -- ch. 24. Home again! -- ch. 25. Beginning anew -- ch. 26. Trouble brewing -- ch. 27. The mission school ; A new teacher -- ch. 28. A prophet without honor speaks -- ch. 29. Authorized outlawry and lawless justice -- ch. 30. Lex non scripta -- ch. 31. A holy apparition -- ch. 32. "Knights of the Lost Clan" versus "Fellows of the Red-String Gang" -- ch. 33. A grand Ku-Klux outrage -- ch. 34. Terrible mystery -- ch. 35. Across the water -- ch. 36. Inter spem et metum! -- Epilogue.

Call Number

Sc Fic (Floyd, N. Thorns in the flesh)

OCLC

28947774

Author

Floyd, N. J. (Nicholas Jackson), 1828-1918 author.

Title

Thorns in the flesh : (A romance of the war and Ku-Klux periods) : a voice of vindication from the South in answer to "A fool's errand" and other slanders : syllabus ... / by N.J. Floyd ; many graphic illustrations.

Publisher

Philadelphia ; Cincinnati ; Chicago ; New York ; Boston ; Kansas City : Hubbard Bros., publishers, 1884.

Copyright Date

©1884.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Fic-F (accession no. B545611) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-891 [pt. I], or the electronic resource.

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust.

Added Author

Gregory, Edward Sanford, 1843-1884. Vision of vindication.

Tourgeé, Albion W., 1838-1905. Fool's errand.

Bogert, J. Augustus, engraver.

King, Francis Scott, engraver.

Louderbach, James W., engraver.

Nichols, D. (David), 1829-1911, engraver.

Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912, illustrator.

Hubbard Bros., publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Fic (Floyd, N. Thorns in the flesh)