WAR POETRY OF THE SOUTH

Edited By

William Gilmore Simms, LL. D.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866,
By RICHARDSON & CO.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery,
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To

The Women of the South

I Inscribe This Volume

They have lost a cause, but they have made a triumph! They have shown
themselves worthy of any manhood; and will leave a record which shall
survive all the caprices of time. They have proved themselves worthy of
the best womanhood, and, in their posterity, will leave no race which
shall be unworthy of the cause which is lost, or of the mothers, sisters
and wives, who have taught such noble lessons of virtuous effort, and