War Poetry of the South

by Unknown

Contents.

• [Ethnogenesis], Henry Timrod
• [God Save the South], George H. Miles
• ["You can never win them back"], Catherine M. Warfield
• [The Southern Cross], E. K. Blunt
• [South Carolina], S. Henry Dickson
• [The New Star], B. M. Anderson
• [The Irrepressible Conflict], Tyrtæus
• [The Southern Republic], Olivia T. Thomas
• ["Is there then no Hope?"], Charleston Courier
• [The Fate of the Republic], Charleston Mercury
• [The Voice of the South], Charleston Mercury
• [The Oath of Freedom], James Barron Hope
• [The Battle Cry of the South], James R. Randall
• [Sonnet], Charleston Mercury
• [Seventy-six and Sixty-one], J. W. Overall
• ["Reddato Gladium"], Richmond Whig
• ["Nay, keep the Sword"], Richmond Whig
• [Coercion], John R. Thompson
• [A Cry to Arms], Henry Timrod
• [Jackson, the Alexandria Martyr], W. H. Holcombe
• [The Martyr of Alexandria], James W. Simmons
• [The Blessed Union], Charleston Mercury
• [The Fire of Freedom], Richmond paper
• [Hymn to the National Flag], Mrs. M. J. Preston
• [Sonnet--moral of party], Charleston Mercury
• [Our Faith in '61], A. J. Requier
• ["Wouldst thou have me love thee?"], Alex. B. Meek
• [Enlisted to-day], Anonymous
• ["My Maryland"], James R. Randall
• [The Boy Soldier], Lady of Savannah
• [The good old cause], John D. Phelan
• [Manassas], Catherine M. Warfield
• [Virginia], Ibid.
• [The War-Christian's Thanksgiving], S. Teackle Wallis
• [Sonnet], Charleston Mercury
• [Marching to Death], J. Herbert Sass
• [Charleston], Henry Timrod
• [Charleston], Paul H. Hayne
• ["Ye Men of Alabama"], Jno. D. Phelan
• [Nec temere, nec timida], Annie C. Ketchum
• [Dixie], Albert Pike
• [The Old Rifleman], Frank Ticknor
• [Battle Hymn], Charleston Mercury
• [Kentucky, she is sold], J. R. Barrick
• [The Ship of State], Charleston Mercury
• ["In his blanket on the ground,"] Caroline H. Gervais
• [The Mountain Partisan], Charleston Mercury
• [The Cameo Bracelet], James R. Randall
• [Zollicoffer], Henry L. Flash
• [Beauregard], Catherine M. Warfield
• [South Carolina], Gossypium
• [Carolina], Henry Timrod
• [My Mother Land], Paul H. Hayne
• [Joe Johnston], Jno. R. Thompson
• [Over the River], Jane T. H. Cross
• [The Confederacy], Jane T. H. Cross
• [President Davis], Jane T. H. Cross
• [The Rifleman's Fancy Shot], Anonymous
• ["All quiet along the Potomac"]
• [Prize Address], Henry Timrod
• [The Battle of Richmond], Geo. Herbert Sass
• [The Guerrillas], S. Teackle Wallis
• [A Farewell to Pope], Jno. R. Thompson
• [Sonnet--Public Prayer], South Carolinian
• [Battle of Belmont], J.A. Signaigo
• [Vicksburg], Paul H. Hayne
• [Ballad of the War], G.H. Sass
• [The two Armies], Henry Timrod
• [The Legion of Honor], H.L. Flash
• [Clouds in the West], A.J. Requier
• [Georgia! My Georgia!], Carrie B. Sinclair
• [Song of the Texan Rangers], Anonymous
• [Kentucky required to yield her arms], Anonymous
• [There's life in the old land yet], J.B. Randall
• ["Tell the boys the War is ended,"] Emily J. Moore
• [The Southern Cross], St. George Tucker
• [England's Neutrality], John R. Thompson
• [Close the Ranks], J.L. O'Sullivan
• [The Sea-kings of the South], Ed. G. Bruce
• [The Return], Anonymous
• [Our Christmas Hymn], J. Dickson Bruns
• [Charleston], Miss E.B. Cheesborough
• [Gathering Song], Annie Chambers Ketchum
• [Christmas], Henry Timrod
• [A Prayer for Peace], S. Teackle Wallis
• [The Band in the Pines], Jno. Esten Cooke
• [At Fort Pillow], James R. Randall
• [From the Rapidan], Anonymous
• [Song of our Southland], Mrs. Mary Ware
• [Sonnets], Paul H. Hayne
• [Hospital Duties], Charleston Courier
• [They cry Peace, Peace!], Mrs. Alethea S. Burroughs
• [Ballad--"What! have ye thought?"] Charleston Mercury
• [Missing], Anonymous
• [Ode--"Souls of Heroes,"] Charleston Mercury
• [Jackson], Henry L. Flash
• [Captain Maffit's Ballad], Charleston Mercury
• [Melt the Bells], F. T. Rockett
• [John Pelham], James R. Randall
• ["Ye batteries of Beauregard,"] J. R. Barrick
• ["When Peace returns,"] Olivia T. Thomas
• [The Right above the Wrong], J. W. Overall
• [Carmen Triumphale], Henry Timrod
• [The Fiend Unbound], Charleston Mercury
• [The Unknown Dead], Henry Timrod
• [Ode--"Do ye quail?"] W. Gilmore Simms
• [Ode--"Our City by the Sea,"] Ibid.
• [The Lone Sentry], J. R. Randall
• [My Soldier Brother], Sallie E. Bollard
• [Seaweeds], Annie Chambers Ketchum
• [The Salkehatchie], Emily J. Moore
• [The Broken Mug], Jno. Esten Cooke
• [Carolina], Anna Peyre Dinnies
• [Our Martyrs], Paul H. Hayne
• [Cleburne], Mrs. M. A. Jennings
• [The Texan Marseillaise], James Harris
• ["O, tempora! O, mores,"] J. Dickson Bruns
• [Our Departed Comrades], J. M. Shirer
• [No Land like Ours], J. R. Barrick
• [The Angel of the Church], W. Gilmore Simms
• [Ode--"Shell the old City,"] Ibid.
• [The Enemy shall never reach your City], Charleston Mercury
• [War Waves], Catherine G. Poyas
• [Old Moultrie], Ibid.
• [Only one killed], Julia L. Keyes
• [Land of King Cotton], J. A. Signaigo
• [If you love me], Ibid.
• [The Cotton Boll], Henry Timrod
• [Battle of Charleston Harbor], Paul H. Hayne
• [Fort Wagner], W. Gilmore Simms
• [Sumter in Ruins], Ibid.
• [Morris Island], Ibid.
• [Promise of Spring], South Carolinian
• [Spring], Henry Timrod
• [Chickamauga], Richmond Sentinel
• [In Memoriam--Bishop Polk], Viola
• [Stonewall Jackson], H. L. Flash
• [Stonewall Jackson--a Dirge], Anonymous
• [Beaufort], W. J. Grayson
• [The Empty Sleeve], J. R. Bagby
• [Cotton Burners' Hymn], Memphis Appeal
• [Reading the List], Anonymous
• [His Last Words], Anonymous
• [Charge of Hagood's Brigade], J. Blythe Allston
• [Carolina], Jno. A, Wagener
• [Savannah], Alethea S. Burroughs
• ["Old Betsy,"] John Killian
• [Awake! Arise!] G. W. Archer
• [Albert Sydney Johnston], Mary Jervey
• [Eulogy of the Dead], B. F. Porter
• [The Beaufort Exile], Anonymous
• [Somebody's Darling], Miss Maria LaCoste
• [John Pegram], W. Gordon McGabe
• [Captives Going Home], Anonymous
• [Heights of Mission Ridge], J. A. Signaigo
• [Our Left at Manassas], Anonymous
• [On to Richmond], J. R. Thompson
• [Turner Ashby], Ibid.
• [Captain Latanè], Ibid.
• [The Men], Maurice Bell
• [The Rebel Soldier], Kentucky Girl
• [Battle of Hampton Roads], Ossian D. Gorman
• ["Is this a time to dance?"] Anonymous
• [The Maryland Line], J. D, McCabe, Jr.
• [I give my Soldier Boy a blade], H. M. L.
• [Sonnet--Avatar of Hell], Anonymous
• [Stonewall Jackson's Way], Anonymous
• [The Silent March], Anonymous
• [Pro Memoria], Ina M. Porter
• [Southern Homes in Ruins], R. B. Vance
• [Rappahannock Army Song], J. C. McLemore
• [Soldier in the Rain], Julia L. Keyes
• [My Country], W. D. Porter
• [After the Battle], Miss Agnes Leonard
• [Our Confederate Dead], Lady of Augusta
• [Ye Cavaliers of Dixie], B. F. Porter
• [Song of Spring], Jno. A. Wagener
• [What the Village Bell said], Jno. C. McLemore
• [The Tree, the Serpent, and the Star], A. P. Gray
• [Southern War Hymn], Jno. A. Wagener
• [The Battle Rainbow], J. R. Thompson
• [Stonewall Jackson], Richmond Broadside
• [Dirge for Ashby], Mrs. M. J. Preston
• [Sacrifice], Charleston Mercury
• [Sonnet], Ibid.
• [Grave of A. Sydney Johnston], J. B. Synott
• ["Not doubtful of your Fatherland,"] Charleston Mercury
• [Only a Soldier's grave], S. A. Jonas
• [The Guerrilla Martyrs], Charleston Mercury
• ["Libera Nos, O Domine!"] James Barron Hope
• [The Knell shall sound once more], Charleston Mercury
• [Gendron Palmer, of the Holcombe Legion], Ina M. Porter
• [Mumford, the Martyr of New Orleans], Ibid.
• [The Foe at the Gates--Charleston], J. Dickson Bruns
• [Savannah Fallen], Alethea S. Burroughs
• [Bull Run--A Parody], Anonymous
• ["Stack Arms,"] Jos. Blythe Allston
• [Doffing the Gray], Lieutenant Falligant
• [In the Land where we were dreaming], D. B. Lucas
• [Ballad--"Yes, build your Walls,"] Charleston Mercury
• [The Lines around Petersburg], Samuel Davis
• [All is gone], Fadette--Memphis Appeal
• [Bowing her Head], Savannah Broadside
• [The Confederate Flag], Anna Peyre Dinnies
• [Ashes of Glory], A. J. Requier

War Poetry of the South

Ethnogenesis.

By Henry Timrod, of S.C.

Written during the meeting of the First Southern Congress, at Montgomery, February, 1861.