The Southern war poetry of the Civil War

by Esther Parker Ellinger

And monuments are dust,

The Songs that guard our soldiers’ clay

Will still fulfill their trust.

FOOTNOTES

[1] See War Poetry of the South, ed. by W. Gilmore Simms, Preface, pp. v and vi.

[2] See An American Anthology, Introduction, p. xxii.

[3] See An American Anthology, Introduction, p. xxii.

[4] Noted in the Editor’s Table of The Southern Literary Messenger for January, 1862.

[5] See Biographical and Critical Studies of Southern Authors, “Irwin Russell,” p. 97.

[6] See The Creed of the Old South, pp. 24 and 25.