Compiled by the South Carolina novelist in 1866, this anthology gathers the poems written in the Confederate states during the Civil War. Henry Timrod’s Ethnogenesis, songs such as God Save the South and The Southern Cross, and many battle pieces and elegies speak for a cause built on slavery, and Simms presents them as a record of the South’s wartime feeling, not as neutral history.
An essential primary source for understanding Confederate self-image and the roots of Lost Cause memory. Download the free EPUB.