In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative editions of out of print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters. Each volume also includes a new scholarly introduction. This is a facsimile of the original edition, with introduction and explanatory notes by Donald Davidson and Mary C. Simms Oliphant, and text established by James B. Meriwether.

Introduction by: Donald Davidson