Tiger-lilies
By: a novel by Sidney Lanier
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Soldiers; Fiction; Prisoners of war; History; Prisoners and prisons; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Other titles: Library of Southern literature.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed March 23, 2009)

This electronic edition is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is part of the collection Library of Southern literature.

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Tiger-lilies is the only novel written by Sidney Lanier, an American musician and poet, while living in Alabama in 1867. The novel is based on his experiences as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Lanier spent a miserable time as a prisoner of war in Camp Point Lookout in St. Mary's County, southern Maryland. While in the prison camp, he contracted tuberculosis, and he suffered from consumption for the rest of his life. In Tiger-lilies, he described the prison and the life led by prisoners.

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Transcribed from: Tiger-lilies : a novel / by Sidney Lanier. New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1867. 252 p.

Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.

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