“States of the South! Confederate Land!
Our foe has come—the hour is nigh;”—
The Confederate Note: (E. V. M., also C. S. B. No. 25.)
“Representing nothing on God’s earth now,
And naught in the water below it:”—
Confederate Oath: Air, “My Maryland;” circulated sub rosa in New Orleans. (Alsb.)
“By the Cross upon our banner, glory of our Southern sky,
Swear we now, a band of brothers, free to live, or free to die”—
A Confederate Officer to His Lady Love: By Major McKnight (“Asa Hartz”), A. A. B., General Loring’s staff. Johnston’s Island. (E. V. M.)
“My love reposes on a rosewood frame,