The Southern War Poetry of
the Civil War
BY
ESTHER PARKER ELLINGER
Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the
University of Pennsylvania, May 1918, in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
1918
COPYRIGHT, 1918
ESTHER PARKER ELLINGER
THE HERSHEY PRESS
HERSHEY, PA.
FOREWORD
In the assembling of material so widely scattered and so long unsought
either by students or by collectors, it has been necessary for me
to depend in some measure on the efforts of others who have been
most generous with their help and assistance. I desire to record
my gratitude especially to my Father and my Mother, without whose
unfailing sympathy and co-operation this work could not have been done:
and to Mrs. C. Francis Osborne of Philadelphia, Miss Sallie Shepherd
of Norfolk, Virginia, and Miss Florence D. Johnston of Philadelphia,
for books and individual poems. For their courtesy in allowing me free
access to the collections committed to their charge I must acknowledge
further indebtedness to Mr. Wallace H. Cathcart, Vice-President and
Director of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, whose
splendid collection of Civil War items contains many rare and important
imprints and broadsides: and to Mr. Bunford Samuel, of the Ridgway
Branch of the Library Company of Philadelphia, to whose private
collection I am indebted for several poems which I have not found
elsewhere.
Particularly to Dr. Arthur Hobson Quinn of the University of
Pennsylvania, under whose direction this thesis was written, I wish to
acknowledge my obligation and to express my sincere appreciation for
his guidance and advice.
E. P. E.
University of Pennsylvania, 15 April, 1918.
“Time in its deeps swims like a monstrous whale: and like a
whale, feeds on the littlest things--small tunes and little
unskilled songs of the olden golden evenings--and anon turneth
whale-like to overthrow whole ships.”
Dunsany--“The Raft Builders.”
CONTENTS
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FOREWORD 3
CHAPTER I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOUTHERN
WAR POETRY 7