Excerpt from The Southern Poems of the War IN the beginning of the war I conceived the design of collecting and preserving the various War Poems which (born of the excited state of the public mind) then inundated our newspapers. For a time I carried out this intention, but a very busy life soon obliged me to relinquish it; so that I am indebted to the kindness of friends for most of the later Poems in this collection. Travelling since the war through many portions of the South, I have heard everywhere the wish expressed that these Poems should be collected and published in a form so cheap as to be accessible to all. This desire I have endeavored to fulfil. Besides a Memorial volume, to preserve these songs, expres sive of the hopes and triumphs and sorrows of a lost cause, I have another design - to aid by its sale the Education of the Daughters of our desolate land to fit a certain number for Teachers, that they may take to their homes and Spread among the different Southern States the knowledge of those accomplishments which else may be denied them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.