| George Rainsford Fairbanks, 1820- | 311 |
| Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles | 311 |
| Richard Malcolm Johnston, 1822- | 314 |
| Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery | 315 |
| John Reuben Thompson, 1823–1873 | 317 |
| Ashby | 318 |
| Music in Camp | 319 |
| Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, 1825- | 321 |
| Relations between England and America | 322 |
| Margaret Junkin Preston, 1825- | 324 |
| The Shade of the Trees | 324 |
| Charles Henry Smith, (“Bill Arp”), 1826- | 326 |
| Big John, on the Cherokees | 327 |
| St. George H. Tucker, 1828–1863 | 329 |
| Burning of Jamestown in 1676 | 330 |
| George William Bagby, 1828–1883 | 332 |
| Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing | 332 |
| Sarah Anne Dorsey, 1829–1879 | 336 |
| A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, 1866 | 338 |
| Henry Timrod, 1829–1867 | 341 |
| Sonnet—Life Ever Seems | 344 |
| English Katie | 344 |
| Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery | 345 |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830–1886 | 346 |
| The Mocking-Bird (At Night) | 348 |
| Sonnet—October | 349 |
| A Dream of the South Wind | 349 |
| John Esten Cooke, 1830–1886 | 350 |
| The Races in Virginia, 1765 | 351 |
| Zebulon Baird Vance, 1830–1894 | 358 |
| Changes Wrought by the War | 360 |
| The Country Gentlemen | 360 |
| The Negroes | 362 |
| Albert Pike, 1809–1891 | 365 |
| To the Mocking-Bird | 365 |
| William Tappan Thompson, 1812–1882 | 367 |
| Major Jones’s Christmas Present | 368 |
| James Barron Hope, 1827–1887 | 370 |
| The Victory at Yorktown | 371 |
| Washington and Lee | 372 |
| James Wood Davidson, 1829- | 373 |
| The Beautiful and the Poetical | 373 |
| Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., 1831–1893 | 376 |
| Salzburger Settlement in Georgia | 376 |
| Mary Virginia Terhune (“Marion Harland”) | 379 |
| Letter Describing Mary [Ball] Washington When a Young Girl | 381 |
| Madam Washington at the Peace Ball | 381 |
| Augusta Evans Wilson, 1835- | 383 |
| A Learned and Interesting Conversation | 384 |
| Daniel Bedinger Lucas, 1836- | 387 |
| The Land Where We Were Dreaming | 388 |
| James Ryder Randall, 1839- | 389 |
| My Maryland | 390 |
| Abram Joseph Ryan, 1839–1886 | 392 |
| William Gordon McCabe, 1841- | 393 |
| Dreaming in the Trenches | 393 |
| Sidney Lanier, 1842–1881 | 394 |
| Song of the Chattahoochee | 396 |
| What is Music? | 397 |
| The Tide Rising in the Marshes | 397 |
| James Lane Allen | 398 |
| Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795 | 399 |
| Joel Chandler Harris, 1848- | 401 |
| The Tar-Baby | 403 |
| Robert Burns Wilson, 1850- | 405 |
| Fair Daughter of the Sun | 406 |
| Dedication—A Sonnet | 407 |
| “Christian Reid,” Frances C. Tiernan | 407 |
| Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, N. C. | 409 |
| Henry Woodfen Grady, 1851–1889 | 413 |
| The South before the War | 413 |
| Master and Slave | 413 |
| Ante-bellum Civilization | 416 |
| Thomas Nelson Page, 1853- | 419 |
| Marse Chan’s Last Battle | 421 |
| Mary Noailles Murfree, (“Charles Egbert Craddock”) | 423 |
| The “Harnt” that Walks Chilhowee | 423 |
| Danske Dandridge, 1859- | 429 |
| The Spirit and the Wood-Sparrow | 430 |
| Amélie Rives Chanler, 1863- | 431 |
| Tanis | 432 |
| Grace King | 437 |
| La Grande Demoiselle | 437 |
| Waitman Barbe, 1864- | 441 |
| Sidney Lanier | 442 |
| Madison Cawein, 1865- | 442 |
| The Whippoorwill | 443 |
| Dixie | 444 |
| List of Authors and Works omitted for lack of space | 445 |
