[17] “Prayer for Peace,” by S. Teackle Wallis of Maryland.
[18] In the present collection, eighty-one poems are definitely concerned with the immediate circumstances of defeat.
[19] “Virginia Capta” by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston.
[20] See South Songs, edited by T. C. de Leon, note 11, p. 149.
[21] See The South in History and Literature, by Mildred Lewis Rutherford, p. 254.
[22] See Three Centuries of Southern Poetry, by Carl Holliday, p. 112.
[23] This was probably due to the fact that the Southern slopes of the river were wooded as compared with the rather bare Northern side.
[24] In the present collection there are seventeen sonnets.
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