Preface.
War Poetry of the South
Ethnogenesis.
By Henry Timrod, of S.C.
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God Save the South.
George H. Miles, of Baltimore.
You Can Never Win Them Back.
By Catherine M. Warfield.
The Southern Cross.
By E. K. Blunt.
South Carolina.
December 20, 1860.
The New Star.
By B.M. Anderson.
The Irrepressible Conflict.
Tyrtæus.-- Charleston Mercury.
The Southern Republic.
By Olivia Tully Thomas, of Mississippi.
"Is There, Then, No Hope for the Nations?"
Charleston Courier.
The Fate of the Republics.
Charleston Mercury.
The Voice of the South.
Tyrtæus.-- Charleston Mercury.
The Oath of Freedom.
By James Barron Hope.
The Battle-Cry of the South.
By James R. Randall.
Sonnet.
Charleston Mercury.
Seventy-Six and Sixty-One.
By John W. Overall, of Louisiana.
"Reddato Gladium."
Virginia to Winfield Scott.
Nay, Keep the Sword.
By Carrie Clifford.
Coercion: A Poem for Then and Now.
By John R. Thompson, of Virginia.
A Cry to Arms.
By Henry Timrod.
Jackson, The Alexandria Martyr.
By Wm. H. Holcombe, M.D., of Virginia.
The Martyr of Alexandria.
By James W. Simmons, of Texas.
The Blessed Union--Epigram.
The Fire of Freedom.
Hymn to the National Flag.
By Mrs. M. J. Preston.
Sonnet--Moral of Party
Charleston Mercury.
Our Faith in '61.
By A. J. Requier.
Wouldst Thou Have Me Love Thee.
By Alex B. Meek.
Enlisted To-Day.
My Maryland.
The Boy-Soldier.
By a Lady of Savannah.
The Good Old Cause.
By John D. Phelan, of Montgomery, Ala.
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Manassas.
By Catherine M. Warfield.
Virginia.
By Catherine M. Warfield.
The War-Christian's Thanksgiving.
Sonnet.
Charleston Mercury.
Marching to Death.
By J. Herbert Sass, of South Carolina.
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Charleston.
By Henry Timrod.
Charleston.
By Paul H. Hayne.
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"Ye Men of Alabama!"
By John D. Phelan, of Montgomery, Ala.
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Nec Temere, Nec Timide.
By Annie Chambers Ketchum.
Dixie.
By Albert Pike.
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The Old Rifleman.
By Frank Ticknor, of Georgia.
Battle Hymn.
Charleston Mercury.
Kentucky, She Is Sold
By J. R. Barrick, of Kentucky.
Sonnet--The Ship of State.
"In His Blanket on the Ground."
By Caroline H. Gervais, Charleston.
The Mountain Partisan.
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The Cameo Bracelet.
By James R. Randall, of Maryland.
Zollicoffer.
By H. L. Flash, of Alabama.
Beauregard
By Catharine A. Warfield, of Mississippi.
South Carolina.
Carolina.
By Henry Timrod.
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My Mother-Land.
By Paul H. Hayne.
Joe Johnston.
By John R. Thompson.
Over the River.
By Jane T. H. Cross.
Published in the Nashville Christian Advocate, 1861.
The Confederacy.
By Jane T. H. Cross.
Published in the Southern Christian Advocated.
President Davis.
By Jane T. H. Cross.
Published in the New York News, 1865.
The Rifleman's "Fancy Shot."
"All Quiet Along the Potomac To-Night."
By Lamar Fontaine.
Address
Delivered at the opening of the new theatre at Richmond.
A Prize Poem.--By Henry Timrod.
The Battle of Richmond.
By George Herbert Sass, Charleston, S.C.
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The Guerillas: A Southern War-Song.
By S. Teackle Wallis, of Maryland.
A Farewell to Pope.
By John K. Thompson, of Virginia.
Sonnet.
On Reading a Proclamation for Public Prayer.
South Carolinian.
Battle of Belmont.
By J. Augustine Signaigo.
From the Memphis Appeal, Dec. 21, 1861.
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Vicksburg--A Ballad.
By Paul H. Hayne.
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A Ballad of the War.
Published Originally in the Southern Field and Fireside,
By George Herbert Sass, of Charleston, S.C.
The Two Armies.
By Henry Timrod.
The Legion of Honor.
Clouds in the West.
By A. J. Requier, of Alabama.
Georgia, My Georgia!
By Carrie Bell Sinclair.
Song of the Texas Rangers.
Kentucky Required to Yield Her Arms.
By----Boone.
"There's Life in the Old Land Yet."
First Published in the New Orleans Delta, about September 1, 1861.
Tell the Boys the War Is Ended.
By Emily J. Moore.
"The Southern Cross."
By St. George Tucker, of Virginia.
England's Neutrality.
A Parliamentary Debate.
By John R. Thompson, of Richmond, Virginia.
Close the Ranks.
By John L. O'Sullivan.
The Sea-Kings of the South.
By Edward C. Bruce, of Winchester, Va.
The Return.
Our Christmas Hymn.
By John Dickson Bruns, M.D., of Charleston, S.C.
Charleston.
Written for the Charleston Courier in 1863.
By Miss E. B. Cheesborough.
Gathering Song.
Air--Bonnie Blue Flag
By Annie Chambers Ketchum.
Christmas.
By Henry Timrod, of South Carolina.
A Prayer for Peace.
By S. Teackle Wallis, of Maryland.
The Band in the Pines.
(Heard after Pelham Died.)
By John Esten Cooke.
At Fort Pillow.
First published in the Wilmington Journal, April 25, 1864.
From the Rapidan--1864.
Song of Our Glorious Southland.
By Mrs. Mary Ware.
From the Southern Field and Fireside.
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Sonnet.
By Paul H. Hayne.
Hospital Duties.
Charleston Courier.
They Cry Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace.
By Mrs. Alethea S. Burroughs, of Georgia.
Ballad--"What! Have Ye Thought?"
Charleston Mercury.
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Missing.
Ode-"Souls of Heroes."
Charleston Mercury.
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Jackson.
By H. L. Flash, of Galveston, Formerly of Mobile.
Captain Maffit's Ballad of the Sea.
Charleston Mercury.
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Melt the Bells.
F. Y. Rockett.--Memphis Appeal.
John Pelham.
By James R. Randall.
"Ye Batteries of Beauregard."
By J. R. Barrick, of Kentucky.
"When Peace Returns."
Published in the Granada Picket.
By Olivia Tully Thomas.
The Right above the Wrong.
By John W. Overall.
Carmen Triumphale.
By Henry Timrod.
The Fiend Unbound.
Charleston Mercury.
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The Unknown Dead.
By Henry Timrod.
Ode--"Do Ye Quail?"
By W. Gilmore Simms.
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Ode--"Our City by the Sea."
By W. Gilmore Simms.
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The Lone Sentry.
By James R. Randall.
To My Soldier Brother.
By Sallie E. Ballard, of Texas.
Sea-Weeds
Written in Exile.
By Annie Chambers Ketchum.
The Salkehatchie.
By Emily J. Moore.
The Broken Mug.
Ode (so-called) on a Lite Melancholy Accident in the Shenandoah Valley (so-called.)
John Esten Cooke.
Carolina.
By Anna Peyre Dinnies.
Our Martyrs.
Bu Paul H. Hayne.
Cleburne.
By M. A. Jennings, of Alabama.
The Texan Marseillaise.
By James Haines, of Texas.
O, Tempora! O, Mores!
By John Dickson Bruns, M. D.
Our Departed Comrades.
By J. Marion Shirer.
No Land Like Ours.
Published in the Montgomery Advertiser, January, 1863.
By J. R. Barrick, of Kentucky.
The Angel of the Church.
By W. Gilmore Simms.
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Ode--"Shell the Old City! Shell!"
By W. Gilmore Simms.
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"The Enemy Shall Never Reach Your City."
Andrew Jackson's Address to the People of New Orleans.
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War-Waves.
By Catherine Gendron Poyas, of Charleston.
Old Moultrie.
By Catherine Gendron Poyas, of Charleston.
Only One Killed.
By Julia L. Keyes, Montgomery, Ala.
Land of King Cotton.[1]
Air--Red, White, and Blue.
By J. Augustine Signaigo.
If You Love Me.
By J. Augustine Signaigo.
The Cotton Boll.
By Henry Timrod.
The Battle of Charleston Harbor.
April 7th, 1863.
By Paul H. Hayne.
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Fort Wagner.
By W. Gilmore Simms.
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Sumter in Ruins.
By W. Gilmore Simms.
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Morris Island.
By W. Gilmore Simms.
Promise of Spring.
Spring.
By Henry Timrod.
Chickmauga--"The Stream of Death."
Richmond Senitnel.
In Memoriam
Of Our Right-Revered Father in God, Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army.
"Stonewall" Jackson
By H. L. Flash.
"Stonewall" Jackson.--A Dirge.
Beaufort.
By W. J. Grayson, of South Carolina.
The Empty Sleeve.
The Cotton-Burners' Hymn.
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IV.
Reading the List.
His Last Words.
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IV.
Charge of Hagood's Brigade.
Weldon Railroad, August 21, 1864.
Carolina.
April 14, 1861.
By John A. Wagener, of S.C.
Savannah.
By Alethea S. Burroughs.
"Old Betsy."
By John Killum.
Awake--Arise!
By G. W. Archer, M. D.
General Albert Sidney Johnston.
By Mary Jervy, of Charleston.
Eulogy of the Dead.
By B. F. Porter, of Alabama.
The Beaufort Exile's Lament.
Somebody's Darling.
By Marie La Coste, of Georgia.
John Pegram,
Fell at the Head of His Division, Feb. 6th, 1865, Ætat XXXIII.
By W. Gordon McCabe.
Captives Going Home.
The Heights of Mission Ridge.
By J. Augustine Signaigo.
"Our Left at Manassas."
On to Richmond.
After Southey's "March to Moscow."
By John R. Thompson, of Virginia.
Turner Ashby.
By John R. Thompson, of Virginia
Captain Latane.
By John R. Thompson, of Virginia.
The Men.
By Maurice Bell.
"A Rebel Soldier Killed in the Trenches before Petersburg, Va., April 15, 1865."
By a Kentucky Girl.
Battle of Hampton Roads.
By Ossian D. Gorman.
Is This a Time to Dance?
"The Maryland Line."
By J.D. M'Cabe, Jr.
The Virginians of the Shenandoah Valley.
" Sic Jurat ."
By Frank Ticknor, M.D., of Georgia.
Sonnet.--The Avatar of Hell.
Charleston Mercury.
"Stonewall" Jackson's Way.
The Silent March.
Pro Memoria.
Air--There is rest for the weary.
By Ina M. Porter, of Alabama.
The Southern Homes in Ruin.
By R. B. Vance, of North Carolina.
"Rappahannock Army Song."
By John C. M'Lemore.
The Soldier in the Rain.
By Julia L. Keyes.
My Country.
By W. D. Porter, S. C.
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"After the Battle."
By Miss Agnes Leonard.
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Our Confederate Dead.
What the Heart of a Young Girl Said to the Dead Soldier.
By a Lady of Augusta, Geo.
Ye Cavaliers of Dixie
By Benj. F. Pouter, of Alabama.
Song of Spring, (1864.)
By John A. Wagener, of South Carolina.
"What the Village Bell Said."
By John C. M'Lemore, of South Carolina.[1]
The Tree, the Serpent, and the Star.
By A. P. Gray, of South Carolina.
Southern War Hymn
By John A. Wagener, of South Carolina.
The Battle Rainbow.
By John R. Thompson, of Virginia.
Stonewall Jackson.
Mortally wounded--" The Brigade must not know, sir. "
Dirge for Ashby.
By Mrs. M. J. Preston.
Sacrifice.
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II.
Sonnet.
Written in 1864.
Grave of A. Sydney Johnston.
"Not Doubtful of Your Fatherland."
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Only a Soldier's Grave.
By S. A. Jones, of Aberdeen, Mississippi.
The Guerilla Martyrs.
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II.
III.
"Libera Nos, O Domine!"
By James Barron Hope.
The Knell Shall Sound Once More.
Gendron Palmer, of the Holcombe Legion
By Ina M. Porter, of Alabama.
Mumford, the Martyr of New Orleans.
By Ina M. Porter, of Alabama.
The Foe at the Gates.--Charleston.
By J. Dickson Bruns, M. D.
Savannah Fallen.
By Alethea S. Burroughs, of Georgia.
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Bull Run.--A Parody.
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V.
"Stack Arms."
Written in the Prison of Fort Delaware, Del., on Hearing of the Surrender of General Lee.
By Jos. Blyth Alston.
Doffing the Gray.
By Lieutenant Falligant, of Savannah, Geo.
In the Land Where We Were Dreaming
By D. B. Lucas, Esq., of Jefferson.
Ballad--"Yes, Build Your Walls."
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II.
III.
The Lines Around Petersburg.
By Samuel Davis, of North Carolina.
All Is Gone.
Fadette.--Memphis Appeal.
Bowing Her Head.
The Confederate Flag
By Anna Feyre Dinnies, of Louisiana.
Ashes of Glory.
A. J. Requier.
