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War poets of the South and Confederate camp-fire songs.

 
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DEDICATION.
 
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CONTENTS.
 
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PREFACE.

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GEORGE W. BAGBY.
 
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
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JAMES R. BARRICK.
 
YE BATTERIES OF BEAUREGARD.
 
NO LAND LIKE OURS.
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CAROLINE A. BALL.
 
THE JACKET OF GRAY.
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MARY E. BRYAN.
 
WAR NEWS ON THE BORDER.
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JOHN ESTEN COOKE.
 
THE BAND IN THE PINES.
 
THE BROKEN MUG.
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JANE T. CROSS.
 
THE CONFEDERACY.
 
PRESIDENT DAVIS.
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ANNIE P. DINNIES.
 
CAROLINA.
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HENRY L. FLASH.
 
ZOLLICOFFER.
 
JACKSON.
 
POLK.
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JAMES B. HOPE.
 
THE OATH OF FREEDOM.
 
"LIBERA NOS O DOMINE."
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PAUL H. HAYNE.
 
CHARLESTON.
 
THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR.
 
OUR MARTYRS.
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ANNIE C. KETCHUM.
 
GATHERING SONG.
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AGNES LEONARD.
 
AFTER THE BATTLE.
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ALBERT PIKE.
 
DIXIE.
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MARGARET J. PRESTON.
 
HYMN TO THE NATIONAL FLAG.
 
DIRGE FOR ASHBY.
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ABRAM J. RYAN.
 
THE CONQUERED BANNER.
 
THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE.
 
THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY.
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JAMES R. RANDALL.
 
MY MARYLAND.
 
JOHN PELHAM.
 
AT FORT PILLOW.
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AUGUSTUS J. REQUIER.
 
ASHES OF GLORY.
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WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS.
 
FORT WAGNER.
 
THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH.
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CARRIE B. SINCLAIR.
 
GEORGIA, MY GEORGIA.
 
THE HOME-SPUN DRESS.
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FRANK O. TICKNOR.
 
LITTLE GIFFEN.
 
THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY.
 
THE OLD RIFLEMAN.
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HENRY TIMROD.
 
A CRY TO ARMS.
 
CHARLESTON.
 
THE UNKNOWN DEAD.
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JOHN R. THOMPSON.
 
ASHBY.
 
THE BATTLE RAINBOW.
 
THE BURIAL OF LATANÉ.
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CATHERINE A. WARFIELD.
 
BEAUREGARD.
 
VIRGINIA.
 
A PLEDGE TO LEE.
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Miscellaneous.
 
UNKNOWN.
 
DYING WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON.
 
DIXIE.
 
HAPPY LAND OF CANAAN.
 
BONNIE BLUE FLAG.
 
FEW DAYS.
 
ROOT HOG OR DIE.
 
WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER.
 
ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TO-NIGHT.
 
THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY,
 
GOOBER PEAS.
 
STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY.
 
CHEER, BOYS, CHEER.
 
HERE'S YOUR MULE.
 
LORENA.
 
PAUL VANE.
 
THE CONFEDERATE NOTE.
 
THE REBEL'S REQUIEM.
 
I'M CONSCRIPTED, SMITH, CONSCRIPTED.
 
THE PRISONER'S LAMENT.
 
TO GO OR NOT TO GO.
 
THE SOUTHERN MARSEILLAISE.
 
TO A ONE-ARMED SOUTHERN SOLDIER.
 
SONG OF THE TEXAS RANGERS.
 
SOMEBODY'S DARLING.
 
BENTONVILLE. (Written on the field, at the close of the first day's fight.)

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NOTES.
 
AUTHORSHIP AND HISTORY OF "DIXIE."
 
THE CONFEDERATE NOTE.
 
LITTLE GIFFEN.
 
MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND.
 
BENTONVILLE.
 
THE "BONNIE BLUE FLAG."
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HYMN TO THE NATIONAL FLAG.

Float aloft, thou stainless banner!
Azure cross and field of light;
Be thy brilliant stars the symbol
Of the pure and true and right.
Shelter freedom's holy cause—
Liberty and sacred laws,
Guard the youngest of the nations—
Keep her virgin honor bright.
From Virginia's storied border,
Down to Tampa's farthest shore—
From the blue Atlantic's clashings
To the Rio Grande's roar—
Over many a crimson plain,
Where our martyred ones lie slain—
Fling abroad thy blessed shelter,
Stream, and mount, and valley o'er.
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In thy cross of heavenly azure,
Has our faith its emblem high;
In thy field of white, the hallowed
Truth for which we'll dare and die;
In thy red, the patriot blood—
Ah! the consecrated flood;
Lift thyself, resistless banner!
Ever fill our Southern sky!
Flash with living lightning motion,
In the sight of all the brave!
Tell the price at which we purchased
Room and right for thee to wave
Freely in our God's free air,
Pure and proud and stainless fair,
Banner of the youngest nation—
Banner we would die to save!
Strike Thou for us, King of armies!
Grant us room in Thy broad world!
Loosen all the despot's fetters,
Back be all his legions hurled!
Give us peace and liberty,
Let the land we love be free—
Then, oh! bright and stainless banner!
Never shall thy folds be furled!
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