Introduction: the life and the stories / Sharon M. Harris and Robin L. Cadwallader -- John Lamar (1862) -- David Gaunt (1862) -- Blind Tom (1862) -- The Promise of the dawn (1863) -- Paul Blecker (1863) -- Ellen (1863) -- Out of the sea (1865) -- The Harmonists (1866) -- "In the market" (1868) -- General William Wirt Colby.