Recounts the settlement of coastal Georgia, the development of the plantation aristocracy and the dreary days of War and Reconstruction. Chapter treatment given to: Guale, New Inverness, Frederica, The Revolution, Saint Simons Island, Sapelo, The Eden of Georgia, Wreck of the "Pulaski," Broughton: The Rice Island, Fanny Kemble, Hopeton, and Halcyon Days.