George Rainsford Fairbanks, 1820-
311
Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles
311
Richard Malcolm Johnston, 1822-
314
Mr. Hezekiah Ellington’s Recovery
315
John Reuben Thompson, 1823-1873
317
Ashby
318
Music in Camp
319
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, 1825-
321
Relations between England and America
322
Margaret Junkin Preston, 1825-
324
The Shade of the Trees
324
Charles Henry Smith, (“Bill Arp”), 1826-
326
Big John, on the Cherokees
327
St. George H. Tucker, 1828-1863
329
Burning of Jamestown in 1676
330
George William Bagby, 1828-1883
332
Jud. Brownin’s Account of Rubinstein’s Playing
332
Sarah Anne Dorsey, 1829-1879
336
A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, 1866
338
Henry Timrod, 1829-1867
341
Sonnet—Life Ever Seems
344
English Katie
344
Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery
345
Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830-1886
346
The Mocking-Bird (At Night)
348
Sonnet—October
349
A Dream of the South Wind
349
John Esten Cooke, 1830-1886
350
The Races in Virginia, 1765
351
Zebulon Baird Vance, 1830-1894
358
Changes Wrought by the War
360
The Country Gentlemen
360
The Negroes
362
Albert Pike, 1809-1891
365
To the Mocking-Bird
365
William Tappan Thompson, 1812-1882
367
Major Jones’s Christmas Present
368
James Barron Hope, 1827-1887
370
The Victory at Yorktown
371
Washington and Lee
372
James Wood Davidson, 1829-
373
The Beautiful and the Poetical
373
Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., 1831-1893
376
Salzburger Settlement in Georgia
376
Mary Virginia Terhune (“Marion Harland”)
379
Letter Describing Mary [Ball] Washington When a Young Girl
381
Madam Washington at the Peace Ball
381
Augusta Evans Wilson, 1835-
383
A Learned and Interesting Conversation
384
Daniel Bedinger Lucas, 1836-
387
The Land Where We Were Dreaming
388
James Ryder Randall, 1839-
389
My Maryland
390
Abram Joseph Ryan, 1839-1886
392
William Gordon McCabe, 1841-
393
Dreaming in the Trenches
393
Sidney Lanier, 1842-1881
394
Song of the Chattahoochee
396
What is Music?
397
The Tide Rising in the Marshes
397
James Lane Allen
398
Sports of a Kentucky School in 1795
399
Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-
401
The Tar-Baby
403
Robert Burns Wilson, 1850-
405
Fair Daughter of the Sun
406
Dedication—A Sonnet
407
“Christian Reid,” Frances C. Tiernan
407
Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, N. C.
409
Henry Woodfen Grady, 1851-1889
413
The South before the War
413
Master and Slave
413
Ante-bellum Civilization
416
Thomas Nelson Page, 1853-
419
Marse Chan’s Last Battle
421
Mary Noailles Murfree, (“Charles Egbert Craddock”)
423
The “Harnt” that Walks Chilhowee
423
Danske Dandridge, 1859-
429
The Spirit and the Wood-Sparrow
430
Amélie Rives Chanler, 1863-
431
Tanis
432
Grace King
437
La Grande Demoiselle
437
Waitman Barbe, 1864-
441
Sidney Lanier
442
Madison Cawein, 1865-
442
The Whippoorwill
443
Dixie
444
List of Authors and Works omitted for lack of space
445
