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War Poetry of the South, Edited

by William Gilmore Simms

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Editor
Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870
Title
War Poetry of the South
Credits
Produced by Distributed Proofreaders
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Southern States -- Poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
8648
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8648
Release Date
August 1, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.War Poetry of the South.
  2. 2.William Gilmore Simms, LL. D. — Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, By Richardson & Co. — Preface. — Contents. — War Poetry of the South — Ethnogenesis.
  3. 3.By Henry Timrod, of S.C. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — God Save the South.
  4. 4.George H. Miles, of Baltimore. — You Can Never Win Them Back.
  5. 5.By Catherine M. Warfield. — The Southern Cross.
  6. 6.By E. K. Blunt. — South Carolina.
  7. 7.December 20, 1860. — The New Star.
  8. 8.By B.M. Anderson. — The Irrepressible Conflict.
  9. 9.Tyrtæus.-- Charleston Mercury. — The Southern Republic.
  10. 10.By Olivia Tully Thomas, of Mississippi. — "Is There, Then, No Hope for the Nations?"
  11. 11.Charleston Courier. — The Fate of the Republics.
  12. 12.Charleston Mercury. — The Voice of the South.
  13. 13.Tyrtæus.-- Charleston Mercury. — The Oath of Freedom.
  14. 14.By James Barron Hope. — The Battle-Cry of the South.
  15. 15.By James R. Randall. — Sonnet.
  16. 16.Charleston Mercury. — Seventy-Six and Sixty-One.
  17. 17.By John W. Overall, of Louisiana. — "Reddato Gladium."
  18. 18.Virginia to Winfield Scott. — Nay, Keep the Sword.
  19. 19.By Carrie Clifford. — Coercion: A Poem for Then and Now.
  20. 20.By John R. Thompson, of Virginia. — A Cry to Arms.
  21. 21.By Henry Timrod. — Jackson, The Alexandria Martyr.
  22. 22.By Wm. H. Holcombe, M.D., of Virginia. — The Martyr of Alexandria.
  23. 23.By James W. Simmons, of Texas. — The Blessed Union--Epigram. — The Fire of Freedom. — Hymn to the National Flag.
  24. 24.By Mrs. M. J. Preston. — Sonnet--Moral of Party
  25. 25.Charleston Mercury. — Our Faith in '61.
  26. 26.By A. J. Requier. — Wouldst Thou Have Me Love Thee.
  27. 27.By Alex B. Meek. — Enlisted To-Day. — My Maryland. — The Boy-Soldier.
  28. 28.By a Lady of Savannah. — The Good Old Cause.
  29. 29.By John D. Phelan, of Montgomery, Ala. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — Manassas.
  30. 30.By Catherine M. Warfield. — Virginia.
  31. 31.By Catherine M. Warfield. — The War-Christian's Thanksgiving.
  32. 32.Respectfully dedicated to the War-Clergy of the United States. — Sonnet.
  33. 33.Charleston Mercury. — Marching to Death.
  34. 34.By J. Herbert Sass, of South Carolina. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — XV. — Charleston.
  35. 35.By Henry Timrod. — Charleston.
  36. 36.By Paul H. Hayne. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — "Ye Men of Alabama!"
  37. 37.By John D. Phelan, of Montgomery, Ala. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — Nec Temere, Nec Timide.
  38. 38.By Annie Chambers Ketchum. — Dixie.
  39. 39.By Albert Pike. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — The Old Rifleman.
  40. 40.By Frank Ticknor, of Georgia. — Battle Hymn.
  41. 41.Charleston Mercury. — Kentucky, She Is Sold
  42. 42.By J. R. Barrick, of Kentucky. — Sonnet--The Ship of State. — "In His Blanket on the Ground."
  43. 43.By Caroline H. Gervais, Charleston. — The Mountain Partisan. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — The Cameo Bracelet.
  44. 44.By James R. Randall, of Maryland. — Zollicoffer.
  45. 45.By H. L. Flash, of Alabama. — Beauregard
  46. 46.By Catharine A. Warfield, of Mississippi. — South Carolina. — Carolina.
  47. 47.By Henry Timrod. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — My Mother-Land.
  48. 48.By Paul H. Hayne. — Joe Johnston.
  49. 49.By John R. Thompson. — Over the River.
  50. 50.By Jane T. H. Cross. — Published in the Nashville Christian Advocate, 1861. — The Confederacy.
  51. 51.By Jane T. H. Cross. — Published in the Southern Christian Advocated. — President Davis.
  52. 52.By Jane T. H. Cross. — Published in the New York News, 1865. — The Rifleman's "Fancy Shot." — "All Quiet Along the Potomac To-Night."
  53. 53.By Lamar Fontaine. — Address
  54. 54.Delivered at the opening of the new theatre at Richmond. — A Prize Poem.--By Henry Timrod. — The Battle of Richmond.
  55. 55.By George Herbert Sass, Charleston, S.C. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — The Guerillas: A Southern War-Song.
  56. 56.By S. Teackle Wallis, of Maryland. — A Farewell to Pope.
  57. 57.By John K. Thompson, of Virginia. — Sonnet.
  58. 58.On Reading a Proclamation for Public Prayer. — South Carolinian. — Battle of Belmont.
  59. 59.By J. Augustine Signaigo. — From the Memphis Appeal, Dec. 21, 1861. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — Vicksburg--A Ballad.
  60. 60.By Paul H. Hayne. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — A Ballad of the War.
  61. 61.Published Originally in the Southern Field and Fireside, — By George Herbert Sass, of Charleston, S.C. — The Two Armies.
  62. 62.By Henry Timrod. — The Legion of Honor. — Clouds in the West.
  63. 63.By A. J. Requier, of Alabama. — Georgia, My Georgia!
  64. 64.By Carrie Bell Sinclair. — Song of the Texas Rangers. — Kentucky Required to Yield Her Arms.
  65. 65.By----Boone. — "There's Life in the Old Land Yet."
  66. 66.First Published in the New Orleans Delta, about September 1, 1861. — Tell the Boys the War Is Ended.
  67. 67.By Emily J. Moore. — "The Southern Cross."
  68. 68.By St. George Tucker, of Virginia. — England's Neutrality.
  69. 69.A Parliamentary Debate. — By John R. Thompson, of Richmond, Virginia. — Close the Ranks.
  70. 70.By John L. O'Sullivan. — The Sea-Kings of the South.
  71. 71.By Edward C. Bruce, of Winchester, Va. — The Return. — Our Christmas Hymn.
  72. 72.By John Dickson Bruns, M.D., of Charleston, S.C. — Charleston.
  73. 73.Written for the Charleston Courier in 1863. — By Miss E. B. Cheesborough. — Gathering Song.
  74. 74.Air--Bonnie Blue Flag — By Annie Chambers Ketchum. — Christmas.
  75. 75.By Henry Timrod, of South Carolina. — A Prayer for Peace.
  76. 76.By S. Teackle Wallis, of Maryland. — The Band in the Pines.
  77. 77.(Heard after Pelham Died.) — By John Esten Cooke. — At Fort Pillow.
  78. 78.First published in the Wilmington Journal, April 25, 1864. — From the Rapidan--1864. — Song of Our Glorious Southland.
  79. 79.By Mrs. Mary Ware. — From the Southern Field and Fireside. — I. — II. — III. — Sonnet.
  80. 80.By Paul H. Hayne. — Hospital Duties.
  81. 81.Charleston Courier. — They Cry Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace.
  82. 82.By Mrs. Alethea S. Burroughs, of Georgia. — Ballad--"What! Have Ye Thought?"
  83. 83.Charleston Mercury. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — Missing. — Ode-"Souls of Heroes."
  84. 84.Charleston Mercury. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — Jackson.
  85. 85.By H. L. Flash, of Galveston, Formerly of Mobile. — Captain Maffit's Ballad of the Sea.
  86. 86.Charleston Mercury. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — Melt the Bells.
  87. 87.F. Y. Rockett.--Memphis Appeal. — John Pelham.
  88. 88.By James R. Randall. — "Ye Batteries of Beauregard."
  89. 89.By J. R. Barrick, of Kentucky. — "When Peace Returns."
  90. 90.Published in the Granada Picket. — By Olivia Tully Thomas. — The Right above the Wrong.
  91. 91.By John W. Overall. — Carmen Triumphale.
  92. 92.By Henry Timrod. — The Fiend Unbound.
  93. 93.Charleston Mercury. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — The Unknown Dead.
  94. 94.By Henry Timrod. — Ode--"Do Ye Quail?"
  95. 95.By W. Gilmore Simms. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Ode--"Our City by the Sea."
  96. 96.By W. Gilmore Simms. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — The Lone Sentry.
  97. 97.By James R. Randall. — To My Soldier Brother.
  98. 98.By Sallie E. Ballard, of Texas. — Sea-Weeds
  99. 99.Written in Exile. — By Annie Chambers Ketchum. — The Salkehatchie.
  100. 100.By Emily J. Moore. — The Broken Mug.
  101. 101.Ode (so-called) on a Lite Melancholy Accident in the Shenandoah Valley (so-called.) — John Esten Cooke. — Carolina.
  102. 102.By Anna Peyre Dinnies. — Our Martyrs.
  103. 103.Bu Paul H. Hayne. — Cleburne.
  104. 104.By M. A. Jennings, of Alabama. — The Texan Marseillaise.
  105. 105.By James Haines, of Texas. — O, Tempora! O, Mores!
  106. 106.By John Dickson Bruns, M. D. — Our Departed Comrades.
  107. 107.By J. Marion Shirer. — No Land Like Ours.
  108. 108.Published in the Montgomery Advertiser, January, 1863. — By J. R. Barrick, of Kentucky. — The Angel of the Church.
  109. 109.By W. Gilmore Simms. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — Ode--"Shell the Old City! Shell!"
  110. 110.By W. Gilmore Simms. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — XV. — "The Enemy Shall Never Reach Your City."
  111. 111.Andrew Jackson's Address to the People of New Orleans. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — War-Waves.
  112. 112.By Catherine Gendron Poyas, of Charleston. — Old Moultrie.
  113. 113.By Catherine Gendron Poyas, of Charleston. — Only One Killed.
  114. 114.By Julia L. Keyes, Montgomery, Ala. — Land of King Cotton.[1]
  115. 115.Air--Red, White, and Blue. — By J. Augustine Signaigo. — From the Memphis Appeal, December 18, 1861. — If You Love Me.
  116. 116.By J. Augustine Signaigo. — The Cotton Boll.
  117. 117.By Henry Timrod. — The Battle of Charleston Harbor.
  118. 118.April 7th, 1863. — By Paul H. Hayne. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — Fort Wagner.
  119. 119.By W. Gilmore Simms. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — Sumter in Ruins.
  120. 120.By W. Gilmore Simms. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Morris Island.
  121. 121.By W. Gilmore Simms. — Promise of Spring. — Spring.
  122. 122.By Henry Timrod. — Chickmauga--"The Stream of Death."
  123. 123.Richmond Senitnel. — In Memoriam
  124. 124.Of Our Right-Revered Father in God, Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army. — "Stonewall" Jackson
  125. 125.By H. L. Flash. — "Stonewall" Jackson.--A Dirge. — Beaufort.
  126. 126.By W. J. Grayson, of South Carolina. — The Empty Sleeve. — The Cotton-Burners' Hymn. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — Reading the List. — His Last Words. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — Charge of Hagood's Brigade.
  127. 127.Weldon Railroad, August 21, 1864. — Carolina.
  128. 128.April 14, 1861. — By John A. Wagener, of S.C. — Savannah.
  129. 129.By Alethea S. Burroughs. — "Old Betsy."
  130. 130.By John Killum. — Awake--Arise!
  131. 131.By G. W. Archer, M. D. — General Albert Sidney Johnston.
  132. 132.By Mary Jervy, of Charleston. — Eulogy of the Dead.
  133. 133.By B. F. Porter, of Alabama. — The Beaufort Exile's Lament. — Somebody's Darling.
  134. 134.By Marie La Coste, of Georgia. — John Pegram,
  135. 135.Fell at the Head of His Division, Feb. 6th, 1865, Ætat XXXIII. — By W. Gordon McCabe. — Captives Going Home. — The Heights of Mission Ridge.
  136. 136.By J. Augustine Signaigo. — "Our Left at Manassas." — On to Richmond.
  137. 137.After Southey's "March to Moscow." — By John R. Thompson, of Virginia. — Turner Ashby.
  138. 138.By John R. Thompson, of Virginia — Captain Latane.
  139. 139.By John R. Thompson, of Virginia. — The Men.
  140. 140.By Maurice Bell. — "A Rebel Soldier Killed in the Trenches before Petersburg, Va., April 15, 1865."
  141. 141.By a Kentucky Girl. — Battle of Hampton Roads.
  142. 142.By Ossian D. Gorman. — Is This a Time to Dance? — "The Maryland Line."
  143. 143.By J.D. M'Cabe, Jr. — The Virginians of the Shenandoah Valley.
  144. 144." Sic Jurat ." — By Frank Ticknor, M.D., of Georgia. — Sonnet.--The Avatar of Hell.
  145. 145.Charleston Mercury. — "Stonewall" Jackson's Way. — The Silent March. — Pro Memoria.
  146. 146.Air--There is rest for the weary. — By Ina M. Porter, of Alabama. — The Southern Homes in Ruin.
  147. 147.By R. B. Vance, of North Carolina. — "Rappahannock Army Song."
  148. 148.By John C. M'Lemore. — The Soldier in the Rain.
  149. 149.By Julia L. Keyes. — My Country.
  150. 150.By W. D. Porter, S. C. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — IV. — "After the Battle."
  151. 151.By Miss Agnes Leonard. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — Our Confederate Dead.
  152. 152.What the Heart of a Young Girl Said to the Dead Soldier. — By a Lady of Augusta, Geo. — Ye Cavaliers of Dixie
  153. 153.By Benj. F. Pouter, of Alabama. — Song of Spring, (1864.)
  154. 154.By John A. Wagener, of South Carolina. — "What the Village Bell Said."
  155. 155.By John C. M'Lemore, of South Carolina.[1] — The Tree, the Serpent, and the Star.
  156. 156.By A. P. Gray, of South Carolina. — Southern War Hymn
  157. 157.By John A. Wagener, of South Carolina. — The Battle Rainbow.
  158. 158.By John R. Thompson, of Virginia. — Stonewall Jackson.
  159. 159.Mortally wounded--" The Brigade must not know, sir. " — Dirge for Ashby.
  160. 160.By Mrs. M. J. Preston. — Sacrifice. — I. — II. — Sonnet.
  161. 161.Written in 1864. — Grave of A. Sydney Johnston. — "Not Doubtful of Your Fatherland." — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Only a Soldier's Grave.
  162. 162.By S. A. Jones, of Aberdeen, Mississippi. — The Guerilla Martyrs. — I. — II. — III. — "Libera Nos, O Domine!"
  163. 163.By James Barron Hope. — The Knell Shall Sound Once More. — Gendron Palmer, of the Holcombe Legion
  164. 164.By Ina M. Porter, of Alabama. — Mumford, the Martyr of New Orleans.
  165. 165.By Ina M. Porter, of Alabama. — The Foe at the Gates.--Charleston.
  166. 166.By J. Dickson Bruns, M. D. — Savannah Fallen.
  167. 167.By Alethea S. Burroughs, of Georgia. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — Bull Run.--A Parody. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — "Stack Arms."
  168. 168.Written in the Prison of Fort Delaware, Del., on Hearing of the Surrender of General Lee. — By Jos. Blyth Alston. — Doffing the Gray.
  169. 169.By Lieutenant Falligant, of Savannah, Geo. — In the Land Where We Were Dreaming
  170. 170.By D. B. Lucas, Esq., of Jefferson. — Ballad--"Yes, Build Your Walls." — I. — II. — III. — The Lines Around Petersburg.
  171. 171.By Samuel Davis, of North Carolina. — All Is Gone.
  172. 172.Fadette.--Memphis Appeal. — Bowing Her Head. — The Confederate Flag
  173. 173.By Anna Feyre Dinnies, of Louisiana. — Ashes of Glory.
  174. 174.A. J. Requier.

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