The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-29
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 HE death a few days ago \9 of James Ryder Randall. au-
 thor of Maryland My Mary land" recalls much concerning the wealth of of Civil war song on both sides of the once famous Mason and Dixon line. Randall, a native of Baltimore, was at the outbreak of hos tilities professor of English literature in a college in Louisiana, and when the news of the attack upon the north ern regiments, as they were passing through the city on their way to Wash ington, reached him. he sat down and produced the words which soon stirred the whole southern people. They were dashed off in a few hours, like Rouget de Lisles "Marseillaise,' Joseph Hop kinson's Hail Columbia and "Sheri- dan's Ride" of Thomas Buchanan Read, and went to the heart, as inspirational things are always wont to do.
 The song was published in a New Orleans newspaper, and was soon on every lip. In Baltimore a Miss Cary, who was making up a programme for a glee club, soon saw that the words could be sung to the German students song, shouted out with such effect at their kommers, "Lauriger Horatius, itself a Latin graft on a much older German melody:
 70 Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
 Vie gruen sind deine Blaetter."
 The tune had found its way to Har- yard, Yale and other American col leges before the war and it was now to be inseparaby associated with MT. Randall's verses. Miss Cary passed through the southern lines and sang Maryland, My Maryland" to the sol darkness, arousing wonderful enthusi- asm. The refrain was caught up by the whole army. Like Hail Columbia" also sung to an old tune, "The Presi dents March," during the French war excitement in this city in 179S, it spread with remarkable rapidity. Thus were the southern people urged to "Avenge the patriotic gore That fiecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the battle queen of yore.
 Maryland My Maryland" And the lines continued with the same infectious lit:
 To, there surges forth a shriek From hill to hill from creek to creek. Potomac calls to Chesapeake,
 Maryland, My Maryland" "She is not dead nor deaf nor dumb. Huzza. She spurns the northern scum. She breathes, she burns, she'll come she'll
 come.
 Maryland, My Maryland"
 'Lauriger Horatius'' is now Mary land, My Maryland" to 99 out of every 100 people in the street, and it shares with Dixie" notable honors still today wherever it is heard. north as well as south Maryland, My Maryland" and the Bonnie Blue Flag written early in the war, when the southern flag was a banner of solid blue bearing one white star, were far and away the most popular of the Confederate songs, and they were loved because they had good tunes The 'Bonnie Blue Flag" is even
 
 "poetry," as may be judged from the opening lines;
 we are a band of brothers,
 And native to the soil;
 Fighting for the property
 We gained by honest toll.
 And when our rights were threatened,
 The cry rose near and far,
 sHurrah for the bonnie blue flag,
 That bears the single star"
 Oliver wendel Holmes is said once to have expressed regret that he could not do for Massachusetts what Randall had done for his state. But he came near 1t, in all, perhaps, except the musical cogue of his work, in Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caro- line":
 "She has gone, she has left us in passion
 and pride.
 Our stormy -browed sister, so long at our
 side.
 She has torn her own star from our firm
 ament's glow
 And turned on her brother the face of a