Download or read book Dueling in the Old South written by Jack Kenny Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also included is a popular dueling code from the year 1838 by John Lyde Wilson, one-time governer of South Carolina.--From publisher description.