# The Southern Poems of the War

THE
SOUTHERN
Poems of the War
Collected and Arranged by
Miss Emily V. Mason.
BALTIMORE
John Murphy & Co., Publishers
182 Baltimore Street.
1867
Entered according to Act of Coluches, in the year 1866,
By John Murphy,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland.
THESE POEMS,
THE OFFSPRING
OF SOUTHERN HEARTS,
SUNG BY SOUTHERN FIRESIDES, AND SOUTHERN CAMP FIRES,
ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
To the Southern Soldiers,
By ONE WHO ADMIRED THEIR HEROISM, SYMPATHIZED WITH THEIR SUCCESSES,
MOURNED THEIR SUFFERINGS,
AND SHARED THEIR PRIVATIONS.
"No marble slab or graven stone
Their gallant deeds to tell; No monument to mark the spot Where they with glory fell Their names shall yet a herald find In every tongue of fame, When valley, stream, and minstrel voice, Shall ring with their acclaim."
PREFACE.
In the beginning of the war I conceived the design of collecting and preserving the various War Poems, which born of the excited state of the public mind,) then inundated our newspapers. For a time, I carried out this intention, but a very busy lite soon obliged me to relinquish it; so that I am indebted to the kindness of friends for most of the later Poems in this collection.
Travelling since the war through many portions of the South, I have heard every where the wish expressed, that these Poems should be collected and published in a form so cheap as to be necessible to all. This desire I have endeavored to fulfil.
Besides a "Memorial" volumnie, to preserve these "Bongs," expressive of the hopes and triumphs and sorrows of a "lost canae," I have another design-to aid by its sale the Education of the Daughters of our desslate land; to pt a certain number for Teachers, that they may take to their homes and spread amongst the different Southern States the knowledge of those accomplishments which else may be denied them.
I appeal to all good people to aid me in this effort to provide for the women of the South, (the future mothers of the country.) the timely boon of creation. Many of these children are the orphans of soldiers, from whom they have inherited nothing but an honorable name, and the last hours of more than one of whom I was enabled to soothe by the promise that I would do something for the little ones they left behind them. That promise, I trust, this humble effort may enable me in part to redeem.
CONTENTS.
| | | PAGE |
| The Southern Cross | St. George Tucker | 13 |
| Address to President Davis | Mrs. E. K. Blunt | 15 |
| Southern Chant of Defiance | Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 17 |
| Written before the Secession of Va. | Mrs. Rebecca Tabb | 19 |
| The Fall of Sumter, April, 1801 | A. L. D. | 21 |
| A Cry to Arms | | 23 |
| Poem on the Death of “Jackson" | | 25 |
| Dead Jackson. | | 26 |
| Rallying Song of the Virginians | Susan Archer Talley | 27 |
| 1861 | | 28 |
| 1776 - 1861 | | 29 |
| II.- Seventy-six and Sixty-one | | 31 |
| Yes, Call us Rebels ! 'Tis the Name | Albert Pike | 32 |
| Rebels! "Tis a Holy Name | Rev. Mr. Garesche | 34 |
| Hymn-God Save the South | Geo. H. Miles | 36 |
| Anthem of the Confederate States | | 38 |
| God Save the South | Agnew | 40 |
| Hurrah! | A Mississippian | 41 |
| The Ship of State | Mrs. C. A. Warfield 43 |
| The Southron's War Song | J. A. Jagner | 45 |
| "On to Richmond" | Jno. A. Thompson | 46 |
| Battle Eve | | 51 |
| Manassas | Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 52 |
| "Our Left" | | 53 |
| The Battle of Manassas | Mrs. Clarke | 55 |
| Virginia's Jewels | Miss Rebecca Powell | 58 |
| Maryland! | Jas. R. Randall | 60 |
| Charge of the Night Brigade | | 63 |
| "There's Life in the Old Land Yet". | F. K. Howord | 65 |
| "Independence Day". | | 66 |
| Are we Free ? | Jas. R. Brewer | 67 |
| The Kentueky Partizán | Paul I. Hayne | 70 |
| John Morgan's Credentials | | 73 |
| The Toast of Morgan's Men | Capt. Thorpe | 73 |
| Louisiana | | 74 |
| Charles B, Dreux.. | Jas. A. Randall | 75 |
| | | PAGE |
| Beauregard | Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 77 |
| Beauregard's Appeal | | 79 |
| Sabbath Bells. | Charleston Mercury | 81 |
| March on! Caroliniana, march on | Mrs. Farley | 82 |
| Carolina | Mrs. Anna Peyre Dennies | 84 |
| The Tennessee Exile's Song | | 87 |
| Lines on the Death of Col. B. F. Terry | R. Berrick | 89 |
| The Stranger's Death | | 91 |
| Song of the Texas Rangers | | 93 |
| The Flag of the Lone Star | Tonella | 93 |
| There's Life in the Old Land Yet. | Jas. R. Randall | 97 |
| All quiet along the Potomae to-night. | | 99 |
| Fast Day, Nov., 1861 | Miss R. Powell | 101 |
| The War-Christian's Thank giving. | S. T. Tallis | 103 |
| Christmas Carol, for 1862.... | Mrs. M. J. Preston | 105 |
| A Picture | Savannah Morning News | 109 |
| A Southern Scene- 1862 | | 111 |
| Song of the Freedman | A. R. Watson | 114 |
| The Unreturning. | | 117 |
| Zollieofler | H. L. Flash | 119 |
| The Burial of Capt. O. Jennings Wisc. | Accomac | 120 |
| Fort Donelson-The Siege, Feb., 1862 | Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 121 |
| The Battle of Hampton Roads | Teneila | 123 |
| The Turtle | | 123 |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | Fleming James | 127 |
| Lines written during these Gloomy Times | J. H. Hewitt | 131 |
| Away with the Dastards who whine of Defeat | Paul II. Payne | 138 |
| Steady and Really | | 137 |
| Prayer | | 139 |
| A Sunday Reverie | Jas. R. Randall | 141 |
| The Soldier's Farewell to his Wife | Wm. K Campbell | 144 |
| The Soldier's Grave | Pearl | 146 |
| The Soldier's Last Combat | Mrs. Elian E. Harper | 117 |
| Home Again | Jef Thompson | 149 |
| My Father | Jerry R. Jackson | 150 |
| My Wife and Child. | Ibid. | 152 |
| A Mother's Prayer | | 154 |
| The Mother to her Son in the Trepelies at Petersburg.. | W. D. Porter | 156 |
| The Ladies of Richmond | Charleston Courier | 158 |
| Rode's Brigade Charge at Seven Pines | W. P. C. | 161 |
| Lines | | 163 |
| | | PAGE |
| "Information Wanted" | | 165 |
| The Drummner Boy | Jas. R. Breuer | 107 |
| The Old Brigade. | Maurice D' Bell | 150 |
| The Burial of Latané | Jan R. Thompson | 173 |
| The Beleaguered City. | Roma Vertner Jeffrey | 176 |
| Richmond on the James | Anne Marie Welby | 177 |
| Missing | | 180 |
| The Dying Soldier | | 182 |
| Reading the List | | 184 |
| The Lonely Grave | Mrs. C. A. Ball | 185 |
| The Sacket of Gray-To those who wore it | Ibid, | 189 |
| "You'll tell her, wont you?". | | 191 |
| Somebody's Darling | Miss Barie Lacoste | 192 |
| The Tear-Guard of the Army | Iris | 191 |
| Heart Victories | Soldier's wife | 196 |
| Address to the Exchanged Prisoners | S.T. Walls | 198 |
| Fiat Justitia | Lady of Baltimore | 200 |
| Lines written in Fort Warren | G. W. B. | 202 |
| The Captain's Story | | 204 |
| The Debt | | 206 |
| Butler's Proclamation | Paul H. Hayne | 208 |
| The Guerrillas | S. T. Wallis | 211 |
| At Fort Pillow | Jas. R. Randall | 214 |
| Bombardinent of Vicksburg | | 217 |
| Gone to the Battle-field | | 219 |
| The Virginians of the Valley | Tickor | 222 |
| The Valley of the Shenandoah | | 223 |
| The Reaper | | 294 |
| Dirge for Ashby | | 520 |
| Ashby | John N. Thompson | 228 |
| Gen. John B. Floyd | Eulalie | 230 |
| Virginia's Dead | | 232 |
| My Order | Gordon McCabe | 295 |
| The Southern Cross. | | 237 |
| Hymn to the National Flag | Mrs. M. J. Preston | 239 |
| The Countersign | | 241 |
| Our "Cottage by the Sen" | Prisoner in Fort Lafayette | 243 |
| The Quaker Girl's Farewell to her Soulborn Lever. | Mrs. Eliza E. Harper | 245 |
| A Confederate Officer to his Ladye Love | Maj. McKnight | 247 |
| The Homespun Dress | | 249 |
| | | PAGE |
| Cannon Song | | 252 |
| On a Raid | Ikey Ingle | 253 |
| Coming at Last | George H. Miles | 250 |
| Beyond the Potomac | Paul H. Hayne | 257 |
| The Southern Oath | Rosa Vertner Jefrey | 260 |
| The Brave at Home | | 262 |
| Little Footsteps | Mary J. Upshur | 203 |
| "Minding the Gap" | Mollie L. Moore | 264 |
| Why the Robin's Breast was Red. | Jas. R. Randall | 268 |
| Lines on the Death of Annie Carter Lee | Tenella | 269 |
| At the Last | | 271 |
| The Long Ago | Philo Henderson | 272 |
| Christmas-1863 | Henry Timrod | 274 |
| Charleston | Ibid | 277 |
| By the Camp Fire | Viola | 279 |
| John Pelham | Jas. R. Randall | 282 |
| A Pledge to Lee | Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 284 |
| Charade | | 286 |
| Stonewall Jackson's Way. | | 287 |
| Stonewall's Sable Seers... | Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 289 |
| Riding a Raid | | 292 |
| The Lone Sentry. | Jas. R. Randall | 293 |
| On the Death of Lieut. Gen. Jackson | Mrs. C. A. Warfield | 205 |
| Lines on the Death of Stonerall Jackson | | 298 |
| The Funeral Dirge of Stonewall Jackson | Rosa Vertner Jefrey | 301 |
| Stonewall Jackson | H. L. Flash | 304 |
| Stonewall | | 305 |
| Stonewall Jackson's Grave | Mrs. H. J. Preston | 307 |
| "Over the River". | J. Doffore | 311 |
| "Let us cross over the River aed rest under the shade of the Trees" | James | 313 |
| The "Slonewall" Cemetery | Mrs. M. B. Clark | 314 |
| A Voice from the South | Rosa Vertner Jeffrey | 316 |
| The Autumn Rain | Susan Archer Talley | 318 |
| Nil Desperandum-To the Southern Soldier | Ikey Ingle | 319 |
| Despondency | Tenelire | 320 |
| Lilies of the Valley | Rosa Vertner Jeffrey | 329 |
| The Duy Picket; or, Charley's Guard | Lady of Kentucky | 324 |
| "True to the Last!” | Col. W. S. Hawkins | 325 |
| A Prison Scene | Ibid. | 327 |
| Lines on Captain Beall | Ibid. | 329 |
| | | PAGE |
| The Hero without a Name.... | Ibid. | 331 |
| The Chines of St. Paul | Toncila | 335 |
| Lines to Lee | Mrs. C. A. Werfield | 337 |
| Leo to the Rear | John R. Thompson | 330 |
| General Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness | Tenella | 342 |
| "The Cavalier's Glee” | Capt. Blackford. | 341 |
| Stuart | W. Winston Fontaine | 345 |
| Gen. J. E. B. Stuart | Jno. R. Thompson | 347 |
| Semmes' Sword | | 350 |
| Oh! no, be'll not need them again | J. D. Sullivan | 952 |
| Sumter in Ruins... | W. Gilmore Simms | 354 |
| Polk | H. L. Flash | 365 |
| John Pegram | W. Gordon McCabe | 356 |
| A Prayer for Peace | S. T. Wallis | 358 |
| "Shermanized" | L. Virginia French | 300 |
| The Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia - April 10, 1865 | Florence Anderson | 303 |
| The Sword of Robert Lee | Moina | 365 |
| General Robert E. Lee | Tenella | 367 |
| April Twenty-sixth | Annie Ketchum Chambery | 368 |
| Dixie | Rosa Vertner Jeffrey | 369 |
| Weep! Weep! | | 371 |
| Peace | L. Burroughs | 378 |
| The Price of Peace | Luola | 375 |
| Acceptation | Mrs. M. J. Preston | 379 |
| Virginia Capta | Ibid. | 380 |
| The Conquered Banner.. | Moine | 381 |
| "Told it up Carefully" | Sir Henry Houghton, Bart. | 383 |
| Cruci Dun Spiro, Fido... | J. C. M. | 384 |
| Lines written July 15, 1805. | A. L. D. | 385 |
| Off with your Grey Suite, Boys! | | 387 |
| Wearing of the Grey | A Mississippian | 388 |
| Our Failure | Author of "Southrons" | 389 |
| Here und There | Sunny South | 392 |
| In the Land where we were Dreaming | Dan. Lucas | 397 |
| The Broken Mug | A Soldier | 400 |
| Last Request of Henry C. Magruder | | 405 |
| Forget? Never! | Mrs. C. A. Ball | 406 |
| Arlington | Mrs. M. J. Preston | 408 |
| Our Chief | Author of "Southrons" | 411 |
| Jefferson Davis | Wm. Munford | 412 |
| | | PAGE |
| Jefferson Davis | Southern Woman | 444 |
| An Appeal for Jefferson Davis. | A Lady of Virginia | 446 |
| Jefferson Davis | Mollie E. Moore | 448 |
| Regulus | Mrs. M. J. Preston | 421 |
| The Battle of Buena Vista | Mississippian | 423 |
| The Confederate Note | Maj. S. A. Jonas | 425 |
| Give them Bread! | G. L. R. | 426 |
| A Wind from the South | C. C. | 428 |
| To the Ladies of Baltimore | Mrs. Dellie C. Locke | 430 |
| The Blessed Hand | S. T. Wallis | 433 |
| The Blessed Heart | Mrs. M. M. | 435 |
| T. Miss —, of Va | Stella | 437 |
| The Waste of War | | 439 |
| Our Dead | Col. A. M. Hobby | 440 |
| The Confederate Dead | Latienne | 443 |
| Song | | 445 |
| Lines read at Hollywood Cemetery, May 10, 1868 | | 446 |
| Lines. | Florence Anderson | 447 |
| Our Cherished Dead | | 450 |
| April 26th | Dr. Ford | 451 |
| Home-after the War | M. E. H. | 451 |
| The Vanquished Patriot's Prayer | | 453 |
| Heaven | | 455 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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