The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-29
POETRY OF THE WAR.
SOME OF THE SONGS THEN FULL
or MEANING.
not They stiii are Loved and Thev ""''
Not Beeu Forgotten =" Dixie" May
land" " Burial OF Latane." The So"-
federate banner" and Others.
for the Times.


oederate Banner" and Others.
written for the Times.
xoxt n women there is no more power'"'
,,auepce mon the human race than music
Next 10 the smiles or tears Oh "o'"."
there il no greater inspiration ior "e" y"
deeds OF valor than war songs.
The struggle ended twenty-five years ago
rcsu,,ed in many poems written at the t'me
or af,erward The South was particularly
rich in these productions, and IN them arr
displayed all the phases OF that 'err'''e
struggle.
Many Of them have been lost, II ever they
wore printed. Many were hastily pcnne"
a,rinp rest in a hurried march, or by the
dim light of the brivouac; they appeared ID
newspapers long since dead, and talent at
homo encouraged the writers by other com
positions, squirting their friends in the iie'd
10 fresh endeayors, and encouraging them
against great odds. Some have been col
lected in book form. and TO them have Deen
added gems which have appeared IN re-
cent years.
MEANS OF PUBLICATION
h.. aro some of the newspapers ana
,sosz;nes I'm which the poems aPlea'cu
poctingham (Na.) Register, New orleans
'r,,,o leila Charleston Courier, CDaricstoh
ue,cury. Richmond Wing, Raleigh hesls-
Tor Nashville Patriot, Richmond Sen.'noI'
Southern Literary Messenger, Memphis ~
neal. savannah Broadside, Atlanta ooh,eu,
rracy. Atlanta Intelligence: Mali ia T,'
Mailbag. southern Society, i'icn'n ,,n. -
aminer, Montgomery AdNertisSi' nr
Telegraph. Chattanooga nepoi' o,,ootiou
Leans Times and others. ana one coiic ,,,
i.'. IT,, ,,,,mhers one hundred and eighi!
poems. ,.oor In those col
,..,ions White some were original III ian
CIV and in mode Of treatment, olneis o. o.
written i'm the same measure anu ~, 10Y, ~"
same lines as famous songs such as ~
ON the Rhine" "llail toiuilpia' .u W tou,
Ia romnacnie." for instance. All, low
ayer which have been preserved are iull vi
,iro and dash. and the metres when nay
been adopted, are admirably adopted 10 Tue
story they tell.
NAMES OF AUTHORS.
Go ~ ,ho authors were anonymous.
o,hors uscd nomSde-plume, as lyf,"us'
t;ossypium, Viola, Molina, oid fog. -no ,n5
.ld,,,ns Cora. sans SOuci, Eulalee anu
o,nors. and the known writers enDraCeu
John II. Thompson. Dr. George W b"sV,SS'
Tather RYAN, Paul Hamilton iiayhe' W
Gilmore Simms. Henry limrod, JAMES n"i-
ron Hone, James Il. Randall Mrs. Ma
,aret / Preston. \. j. Requier, Albert IKE
49, - Ke,chum. Jane T. ii. Cross, ;.
raactle Wallis. q. II. sass, Carrie Is; SIN
clair ~. George Tucker, John Esten Cooke
Miss Marie La Costa, W. Gordon Mc'aoe'
-Iosenh Blythe Allsion and others, whose
names appeared during or AFTER the ""i'
SOME HISTORY.
Many Of the songs. such as maryland,
have bits Of romantic history a'iacDcu ~
,Lem. Timrods EthnOgenlsls was VIII
Zen nj the time OF the meeting OF tlie ,ohleu-
crate Congress in Montgomery feDruary,
Is;I: :" Melt the Bells" by r. '. kocke'I, III
response to the appeal OF Beauregalu ioi
cannon. March on" by woman VINO h!u
a husband three sons, and two nephews IN
the army. "My Wife and Child, by "eh-
oral Henry Il. jackson, of Georgia, appear,
oil first i'm the Raleigh. y. c., Register ana
was copied into the Boston Traveller. =
Teackle Wallis wrote his "bueTiiIas
while i'm a Yankee prison.
..TelI the bows the war is over was hrst
Whispered into the ear OF Emily 81. MOOT
by "A diving Arkansas soldier boy, VIM h'u
l,aen wounded at MurfreesbOro and taken
10 the uo-llltt -,
arms was written by Joseph Blythe Al
ston. when in his Prison ut FORT DelawaIe
he heard of the surrender oil the army vi
Northern Virginia, and "St0newail JACK
SONS way" was found stained with blood on
the breast of one of the old st0newaii
brigade. after one of its battles IN the val
lev. ~ A..
Those who saw these poems when they
first appeared, or who lightened the tolis Oh
campaiens by singing those which were SET
IN music. can never forget them. n new
generation has been born since them W TN
ont experiencing the actual feeling when
inspired those songs, the youngers cannon
read them without being deeply thrilled by
their pathos, yigOr and tenderness. FOR
such the following have been selected;
The sword of Robert 4. Lee.
Forth from It's scabhard, pure and bright,
dashed the sword of beel
Far in the front of the deadly nght,
High DER the brave In the cause OF right
lis stainless sheen like bacon hght leu us
10 victory.
Ont OF its scabbard! Never hand
Waved sword from stain M free:
Nor purer sword led Drawer band,
Nor prayer bled for a brighter lana,
Nor brighter land had cause SO grand.
Nor cause. a chief ike Lee.
Forth from It's scabbardl All I'm vain
Forth flashed the sword OF Leel
iris shrowded now In It's sheath again
IL sleeps the sleep Of our noble slain'
Defeated, yet without siam,
Proudly and peacefully.
g-Rey. Abraham ]. Ryan.