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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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GOOBER PEAS.

Sitting by the roadside on a summer day,
Chatting with my messmates, passing time away,
Lying in the shadow underneath the trees,
Goodness! how delicious, eating goober peas!
Chorus. Peas! peas! peas! peas! eating goober peas!
Goodness! how delicious, eating goober peas!
When a horseman passes, the soldiers have a rule
To cry out at their loudest, "Mister, here's your mule,"
But another pleasure, enchantinger than these,
Is wearing out your grinders, eating goober peas!
Chorus. Peas! peas! peas! peas! eating goober peas!
Goodness! how delicious, eating goober peas!
Just before the battle the General hears a row,
He says, "The Yankees are coming, I hear their rifles now";
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He turns around in wonder, and what do you think he sees?
The Georgia militia eating goober peas!
Chorus. Peas! peas! peas! peas! eating goober peas!
Goodness! how delicious, eating goober peas!
I think my song has lasted almost long enough,
The subject's interesting, but the rhymes are mighty rough.
I wish this war was over, when free from rags and fleas,
We'd kiss our wives and sweethearts, and gobble goober peas!
CHORUS—Peas! peas! peas! peas! eating goober peas!
Goodness! how delicious, eating goober peas!
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