1 See War Poetry of the South, ed. by W. Gilmore Simms, Preface, pp. v and vi.

2 See An American Anthology, Introduction, p. xxii.

3 See An American Anthology, Introduction, p. xxii.

4 Noted in the Editor’s Table of The Southern Literary Messenger for January, 1862.

5 See Biographical and Critical Studies of Southern Authors, “Irwin Russell,” p. 97.

6 See The Creed of the Old South, pp. 24 and 25.

7 See The Creed of the Old South, p. 38.

8 See Southern Prose and Poetry, p. 15.

9 See Biographical and Critical Studies of Southern Authors, “Irwin Russell,” pp. 97 and 98.

10 See “To the South,” stanza V, by James Maurice Thompson.

11 See South Songs, p. vii.

12 See Photographic History of the Civil War, vol. 9, pp. 86 and 88.

13 See War Poets of the South: Singers on Fire, S. A. Link, p. 382.

14 “Butler’s Proclamation” by Paul H. Hayne, occasioned by Butler’s order to the effect: “It is ordered that hereafter when any female shall by word, gesture or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable lo be treated as a woman of the town, plying her vocation.”

15 See The Creed of the Old South, by Basil L. Gildersleeve, p. 13.

16 See “Shermanized” by L. Virginia French.

17 “Prayer for Peace,” by S. Teackle Wallis of Maryland.

18 In the present collection, eighty-one poems are definitely concerned with the immediate circumstances of defeat.

19 “Virginia Capta” by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston.

20 See South Songs, edited by T. C. de Leon, note 11, p. 149.

21 See The South in History and Literature, by Mildred Lewis Rutherford, p. 254.

22 See Three Centuries of Southern Poetry, by Carl Holliday, p. 112.

23 This was probably due to the fact that the Southern slopes of the river were wooded as compared with the rather bare Northern side.

24 In the present collection there are seventeen sonnets.