War Poetry of the South
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War Poetry of the South.
William Gilmore Simms, LL. D.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, By Richardson & Co.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, By Richardson & Co.
Preface.
Contents.
War Poetry of the South
Ethnogenesis.
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God Save the South.
George H. Miles, of Baltimore.
You Can Never Win Them Back.
The Southern Cross.
South Carolina.
December 20, 1860.
The New Star.
The Irrepressible Conflict.
Tyrtæus.--Charleston Mercury.
The Southern Republic.
"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.
The Battle-Cry of the South.
Sonnet.
Charleston Mercury.
Seventy-Six and Sixty-One.
"Reddato Gladium."
Virginia to Winfield Scott.
Nay, Keep the Sword.
Coercion: A Poem for Then and Now.
A Cry to Arms.
Jackson, The Alexandria Martyr.
The Martyr of Alexandria.
The Blessed Union--Epigram.
The Fire of Freedom.
Hymn to the National Flag.
Sonnet--Moral of Party
Charleston Mercury.
Our Faith in '61.
Wouldst Thou Have Me Love Thee.
Enlisted To-Day.
My Maryland.
The Boy-Soldier.
The Good Old Cause.
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Manassas.
Virginia.
The War-Christian's Thanksgiving.
Respectfully dedicated to the War-Clergy of the United States.
Sonnet.
Charleston Mercury.
Marching to Death.
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Charleston.
Charleston.
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"Ye Men of Alabama!"
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Nec Temere, Nec Timide.
Dixie.
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The Old Rifleman.
Battle Hymn.
Charleston Mercury.
Kentucky, She Is Sold
Sonnet--The Ship of State.
"In His Blanket on the Ground."
The Mountain Partisan.
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The Cameo Bracelet.
Zollicoffer.
Beauregard
South Carolina.
Carolina.
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My Mother-Land.
Joe Johnston.
Over the River.
Published in the Nashville Christian Advocate, 1861.
The Confederacy.
Published in the Southern Christian Advocated.
President Davis.
Published in the New York News, 1865.
The Rifleman's "Fancy Shot."
"All Quiet Along the Potomac To-Night."
Address
Delivered at the opening of the new theatre at Richmond.
A Prize Poem.--By Henry Timrod.
A Prize Poem.--By Henry Timrod.
The Battle of Richmond.
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The Guerillas: A Southern War-Song.
A Farewell to Pope.
Sonnet.
On Reading a Proclamation for Public Prayer.
South Carolinian.
South Carolinian.
Battle of Belmont.
From the Memphis Appeal, Dec. 21, 1861.
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Vicksburg--A Ballad.
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A Ballad of the War.
Published Originally in the Southern Field and Fireside,
The Two Armies.
The Legion of Honor.
Clouds in the West.
Georgia, My Georgia!
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.
"The Southern Cross."
England's Neutrality.
A Parliamentary Debate.
Close the Ranks.
The Sea-Kings of the South.
The Return.
Our Christmas Hymn.
Charleston.
Written for the Charleston Courier in 1863.
Gathering Song.
Air--Bonnie Blue Flag
Christmas.
A Prayer for Peace.
The Band in the Pines.
(Heard after Pelham Died.)
At Fort Pillow.
First published in the Wilmington Journal, April 25, 1864.
From the Rapidan--1864.
Song of Our Glorious Southland.
From the Southern Field and Fireside.
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Sonnet.
Hospital Duties.
Charleston Courier.
They Cry Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace.
Ballad--"What! Have Ye Thought?"
Charleston Mercury.
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Missing.
Ode-"Souls of Heroes."
Charleston Mercury.
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Jackson.
Captain Maffit's Ballad of the Sea.
Charleston Mercury.
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Melt the Bells.
F. Y. Rockett.--Memphis Appeal.
John Pelham.
"Ye Batteries of Beauregard."
"When Peace Returns."
Published in the Granada Picket.
The Right above the Wrong.
Carmen Triumphale.
The Fiend Unbound.
Charleston Mercury.
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The Unknown Dead.
Ode--"Do Ye Quail?"
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Ode--"Our City by the Sea."
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The Lone Sentry.
To My Soldier Brother.
Sea-Weeds
Written in Exile.
The Salkehatchie.
The Broken Mug.
Ode (so-called) on a Lite Melancholy Accident in the Shenandoah Valley (so-called.)
John Esten Cooke.
John Esten Cooke.
Carolina.
Our Martyrs.
Bu Paul H. Hayne.
Cleburne.
The Texan Marseillaise.
O, Tempora! O, Mores!
Our Departed Comrades.
No Land Like Ours.
Published in the Montgomery Advertiser, January, 1863.
The Angel of the Church.
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Ode--"Shell the Old City! Shell!"
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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.
Old Moultrie.
Only One Killed.
Land of King Cotton.[1]
Air--Red, White, and Blue.
From the Memphis Appeal, December 18, 1861.
From the Memphis Appeal, December 18, 1861.
If You Love Me.
The Cotton Boll.
The Battle of Charleston Harbor.
April 7th, 1863.
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Fort Wagner.
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Sumter in Ruins.
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Morris Island.
Promise of Spring.
Spring.
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
"Stonewall" Jackson.--A Dirge.
Beaufort.
The Empty Sleeve.
The Cotton-Burners' Hymn.
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Reading the List.
His Last Words.
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Charge of Hagood's Brigade.
Weldon Railroad, August 21, 1864.
Carolina.
April 14, 1861.
Savannah.
"Old Betsy."
Awake--Arise!
General Albert Sidney Johnston.
Eulogy of the Dead.
The Beaufort Exile's Lament.
Somebody's Darling.
John Pegram,
Fell at the Head of His Division, Feb. 6th, 1865, Ætat XXXIII.
Captives Going Home.
The Heights of Mission Ridge.
"Our Left at Manassas."
On to Richmond.
After Southey's "March to Moscow."
Turner Ashby.
Captain Latane.
The Men.
"A Rebel Soldier Killed in the Trenches before Petersburg, Va., April 15, 1865."
Battle of Hampton Roads.
Is This a Time to Dance?
"The Maryland Line."
The Virginians of the Shenandoah Valley.
"Sic Jurat."
Sonnet.--The Avatar of Hell.
Charleston Mercury.
"Stonewall" Jackson's Way.
The Silent March.
Pro Memoria.
Air--There is rest for the weary.
The Southern Homes in Ruin.
"Rappahannock Army Song."
The Soldier in the Rain.
My Country.
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"After the Battle."
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Our Confederate Dead.
What the Heart of a Young Girl Said to the Dead Soldier.
Ye Cavaliers of Dixie
Song of Spring, (1864.)
"What the Village Bell Said."
The Tree, the Serpent, and the Star.
Southern War Hymn
The Battle Rainbow.
Stonewall Jackson.
Mortally wounded--"The Brigade must not know, sir."
Dirge for Ashby.
Sacrifice.
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Sonnet.
Written in 1864.
Grave of A. Sydney Johnston.
"Not Doubtful of Your Fatherland."
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Only a Soldier's Grave.
The Guerilla Martyrs.
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"Libera Nos, O Domine!"
The Knell Shall Sound Once More.
Gendron Palmer, of the Holcombe Legion
Mumford, the Martyr of New Orleans.
The Foe at the Gates.--Charleston.
Savannah Fallen.
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Bull Run.--A Parody.
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"Stack Arms."
Written in the Prison of Fort Delaware, Del., on Hearing of the Surrender of General Lee.
Doffing the Gray.
In the Land Where We Were Dreaming
Ballad--"Yes, Build Your Walls."
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The Lines Around Petersburg.
All Is Gone.
Fadette.--Memphis Appeal.
Bowing Her Head.
The Confederate Flag
Ashes of Glory.
A. J. Requier.
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