The Southern war poetry of the Civil War

by Esther Parker Ellinger

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLLECTIONS EXAMINED

Material from Boston	Boston Athenaeum. broadsides.
Material from New York	New York Public Library anthologies, Confederate imprints.
Material from Philadelphia	Library Co. of Philadelphia: Main branch. newspaper clippings. Ridgway branch. broadsides, songs, newspaper clippings, Mr. Samuel’s collection.
Material from Baltimore	1. Maryland Historical Society. Scrap book of broadsides (Mr. Lennox Birkhead). 2. Baltimore, City Librarian’s Office, City Hall. Ledger 1411, newspaper clippings.
Material from Washington	Congressional Library. broadsides (MSS. Division). magazines, anthologies, Confederate imprints.
Material from Cleveland	Western Reserve Historical Society. broadsides, anthologies, Confederate imprints.
Material from Private MSS. and Miscellaneous Sources.

• Boston Athenaeum.
  • broadsides.

• New York Public Library
  • anthologies,
  • Confederate imprints.

• Library Co. of Philadelphia:
  • Main branch.
    • newspaper clippings.
  • Ridgway branch.
    • broadsides,
    • songs,
    • newspaper clippings,
    • Mr. Samuel’s collection.

• 1. Maryland Historical Society.
  • Scrap book of broadsides (Mr. Lennox Birkhead).
• 2. Baltimore, City Librarian’s Office, City Hall.
  • Ledger 1411, newspaper clippings.

• Congressional Library.
  • broadsides (MSS. Division).
  • magazines,
  • anthologies,
  • Confederate imprints.

• Western Reserve Historical Society.
  • broadsides,
  • anthologies,
  • Confederate imprints.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHOLOGIES AND CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS

• Abram: A Military Poem. By A. Young Rebelle, Esq., of the Army. Richmond: Macfarlane & Fergusson, 1863.
  
• [“A string of smoothly running rhymes about Lincoln, Stonewall, McClellan, Pope, Burnside & Co., with a very droll preface in place of an appendix. The author is a Texan, and we doubt not his comrades of Hood’s old brigade will enjoy this little book nearly as much as they do a hard day’s fight after a long march.”—Review in The Southern Literary Messenger, for March, 1863.]
• Allan’s Lone Star Ballads: A collection of southern patriotic songs, made during Confederate times ... compiled and revised by Francis D. Allan. Galveston, Texas: J. D. Sawyer, 1874.
• American War Ballads and Lyrics: Edited by George Cary Eggleston. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889.
• The Army Songster: Dedicated to the Army of Northern Virginia. Published by George L. Bidgood, Richmond, Va., and printed by Macfarlane & Fergusson, 1864. (Reprinted by J. W. Fergusson & Son, 1902.)
• [“This is one of the almost numberless catalogues of ‘Songbooks,’ ‘Songsters,’ etc., which has been published during the War,—rejoicing in such patriotic titles as the ‘Rebel,’ ‘Stonewall,’ ‘Soldiers,’ etc., which with a most refreshing contempt for consistency in name and date, embrace sprinklings from the lyric music of almost every age and clime. ‘No One to Love,’ ‘Rory O’More,’ ‘Kathleen Mavourneen,’ ‘Marseillaise,’ etc., etc., of course, figure extensively. We suppose the ‘Army Songster’ is quite as good as the rest, and we are not quite sure this is extravagant praise.”—Review in The Southern Literary Messenger for April, 1864.]
• The Beauregard Songster: Being a collection of Patriotic, Sentimental and Comic Songs, The Most Popular of the Day. Arranged by Hermann L. Schreiner. Published by John C. Schreiner & Son, Macon and Savannah, Ga., 1864.
• Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War, by Margaret J. Preston. Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 121 Main Street, 1865.
• Same: Baltimore, 1867.
• Bugle-echoes: A collection of poems of the Civil War, Northern and Southern. New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1866.
• The Cavalier Songster: Containing a Splendid Collection of Original and Selected Songs, Compiled and Arranged Expressly for the Southern Public. Staunton, Va., 1865.
• Confederate Scrap Book: Copied from a Scrapbook kept by a young girl during and immediately after the war, with additions from war-copies of the “Southern Literary Messenger” and “Illustrated News” loaned by friends, and other selections as accredited. Published for the benefit of the Memorial Bazaar, held in Richmond, April 11, 1893. Richmond, Va.: J. L. Hill Printing Co., 1893.
• Corinth, and Other Poems of the War: By Cornelia J. M. Jordan. “Praeritorum Memoria Eventorum.” Lynchburg: Johnson & Schaffter, Printers, 60 and 62 Market Street, 1865.
• [“Publicly burnt on its appearance in 1865, by order of General Terry, as an objectionable and incendiary publication.” See Adams, Dictionary of American Authors (1905), p. 213.]
• Cullings from The Confederacy: A Collection of Southern Poems, Original and Others, popular during the War between the States, and Incidents and Facts worth recalling. 1862-1866. Including the Doggerel of the Camp, as Well as Tender Tribute to the Dead. “From grave to gay, from reverend to severe.” Compiled by Nora Fontaine M. Davidson, Petersburg, Va. Washington, D. C.: the Rufus H. Darby Printing Co., 1903.
• The General Lee Songster: Being a collection of the most popular, sentimental, patriotic and comic songs. Arranged by Hermann L. Schreiner. Published by John C. Schreiner & Sons, Macon and Savannah, Ga., 1865.
• Hopkins’ New Orleans 5c Song Book. New Orleans, 1861.
• Immortal Songs of Camp and Field. By Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D.D. With portraits and illustrations. The B. B. Co., Cleveland. The Burrows Brothers Company, Publishers, 1899.
• Immortelles: A tribute to “The Old South.” A Compilation by Sarah Robinson Reid. Little Rock, Ark.: published by the Brown Printing Company, 1896.
• The Jack Morgan Songster. Compiled by a Captain in General Lee’s Army. Raleigh, N. C. Branson & Farrar, Fayetteville St., 1864.
• Original Collection of War Poems and War Songs of the American Civil War. Compiled by Angie C. Beebe. Edited and Published by The Argus Press at Red Wing, Minnesota.
• Our War Songs, North and South. Cleveland, Ohio; S. Brainard’s Sons, c. 1887. (Words and music.)
• Personal and Political Ballads. Arranged and edited by Frank Moore. New York: George P. Putnam, 1864.
• The Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. IX, Poetry and Eloquence of the Blue and Gray. Edited by Dudley N. Miles, Ph.D., Columbia. Introduction by Dr. W. P. Trent, of Columbia. Appendix: Songs of the War Days—soldier songs and negro spirituals. New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1911.
• Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War. Selected and Edited by Richard Grant White. New York: The American News Company, 1866.
• Rebel Rhymes and Rhapsodies: Collected and edited by Frank Moore. New York: George P. Putnam, 1864.
• Richmond, Her Glory and Her Graves. By Cornelia J. M. Jordan. Richmond: Medical Journal Printing Co., 1866.
• The Royal Ape: A Dramatic Poem. Richmond: West & Johnston, 145 Main Street, 1863.
• Songs and Ballads of the Southern People, 1861-1865. Collected and edited by Frank Moore. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1886.
• Songs of Love and Liberty. Compiled by a North Carolina Lady. Raleigh, N. C.: Branson & Farrer, Fayetteville St., 1864.
• Songs of the Confederacy and Plantation Melodies. Compiled by Mrs. A. Mitchell. G. B. Jennings, 1907.
• Songs of the South: Choice selections from southern poets from Colonial times to the present day. Collected and edited by Jennie Thornley Clarke. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896.
• Songs of the South. J. W. Randolph, 121 Main Street, Richmond, Va., 1863.
• [There was an earlier edition in 1862.]
• Songs Written by Capt. T. F. Roche, C. S. A., Prisoner of War at Fort Delaware, 1865. Sung by the Fort Delaware minstrel troop, organized by the Confederate officers to aid sick comrades in hospital. Winchester, Va.: The Enterprise Printing Company.
• South Songs: From the Lays of Later Days. Collected and Edited by T. C. De Leon. New York: Blelock & Co., 19 Beekman Street, 1866.
• The Southern Amaranth: A carefully selected collection of poems growing out of and in reference to the late war. Edited by Miss Sallie A. Brock. New York: George S. Wilcox, Publisher, successor to Blelock & Co., 49 Mercer Street, 1869.
• Southern and Miscellaneous Poems. By Thomas Q. Barnes, Mobile, Ala., 1886.
• Southern Odes: By The Outcast, a gentleman of South Carolina. [C. B. Northrup.] Published for the benefit of the Ladies Fuel Society. Charleston: Harper and Calvo, 1861.
• The Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to every department of Literature, and the Fine Arts. Edited by Dr. G. W. Bagby, 1861-1864, and F. H. Alfriend, 1864. Richmond: Published by Macfarlane & Fergusson, Proprietors, 1861-1863, and Wedderburn & Alfriend, Proprietors, 1864. January, 1861-June, 1864.
• [Owing to war conditions, the magazine suspended publication after June, 1864.]
• The Southern Poems of the War: Collected and arranged by Miss Emily V. Mason. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., Publishers, 182 Baltimore Street, 1867.
• Same. Third edition revised and enlarged. Baltimore, 1869.
• The Southern Songster: A collection of the best original songs of the Confederate states. Published for sale at the Southern Bazaar, at Liverpool, October, 1864.
• Southern War Songs. Atlanta: Franklin Printing & Publishing Co., 1895.
• Southern War Songs: Camp Fire, Patriotic & Sentimental. Collected and arranged by W. L. Fagan. Illustrated. New York: M. T. Richardson & Co., 1890.
• The Stonewall Song Book: Being a collection of patriotic, sentimental and comic songs. Richmond: West & Johnston, 1865.
• The Sunny Land, or Prison Prose & Poetry: Containing the Productions of the Ablest Writers of the South, and Prison Lays of Distinguished Confederate Officers, by Colonel Beuhring H. Jones, 60th Virginia Infantry. Edited, with Preface, Biographies, Sketches and Stories by J. A. Houston, Baltimore, 1868.
  
• “The land we love—a queen of lands,
• No prouder one the world has known;
• Though now uncrowned, upon her throne
• She sits with fetters on her hands.”
• War: A poem, with copious notes, founded on the revolution of 1861-62. (Up to the battles before Richmond, inclusive) by John H. Hewitt ... Richmond, Va.: Weston & Johnston, 1862.
• War Flowers: Reminiscences of Four Year’s Campaigning. Respectfully dedicated to the Ladies of New Orleans. By F. B. 1865.
• War Lyrics and Songs of the South. London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1866. “Printed of necessity in England, and not revised.”
• War Poetry of the South. Edited by William Gilmore Simms, LL.D. New York: Richardson & Co., 540 Broadway, 1867.
• War Poets of the South and Confederate Camp Fire Songs. Compiled by Charles William Hubner. Atlanta, Ga.: Chas. P. Byrd, Printer.
• War Songs & Poems of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865. Compiled by H. M. Wharton. Philadelphia: Winston, 1904.
• War Songs of the Blue and the Gray: As sung by the Brave Soldiers of the Union & Confederate Armies in camp, on the march, and in the garrison; with preface by Professor Henry L. Williams, etc. New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 1905.
• War Songs of the South: Edited by “Bohemian,” Correspondent, Bichmond Despatch. [W. G. Shepperson.] Bichmond: West & Johnson, 145 Main St., 1862.
• [“I said, I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr——’s sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.”—Fletcher’s Political Works, p. 372.]