The Southern Poems of the War

Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1868. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. 12mo, 524 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated green cloth covered boards. The Southern Poems of the War, collected and arranged by Emily V. Mason and first published in 1867, is a post-Civil War anthology preserving verse written by Southern poets during the conflict. Issued during the early Reconstruction period, the volume reflects the grief, defiance, memorialization, and regional identity that shaped the former Confederacy in the war’s immediate aftermath. The poems commemorate fallen soldiers, celebrate Southern valor, and express the emotional and cultural atmosphere of the era, making the work both a literary collection and a document of Lost Cause sentiment as it began to take form. Today it is valued as an important piece of Civil War–era Southern print culture, offering insight into how poetry functioned as remembrance, consolation, and ideological expression in the postwar South. Previous owner's inscription, hinges starting to crack, some discoloration, slight rubbing and wear, else in very good condition. Item #218

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