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American poetry -- Southern States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Florence Ada Scherff ephemera

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS250f
Scope and Content

This collection includes a handwritten anthology of Southern poetry given to Florence Ada Scherff by a friend while at school in Philadelphia. It also includes a paper three pence piece and a copy of The Bladenburg Races.

Dates: 1777-1816, undated

Henri (Henrietta Irene) Horrell poems

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS952f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two poems written by Henri Horrell about the Civil War. There is a typed and a hand written copy of "Grand-Pa's Story," which is about the Battle of Chancellorsville. In addition, there is a typed copy of "Who'll Know the Blue from the Gray," as well as a copy of the periodical Blue and Gray: the Patriotic American magazine from February 1884, in which Horrell published her poem.

Dates: 1867-1894, undated

Julius G. Brown collection of poems

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS42f
Scope and Content

This collection contains poems with a connection to the Civil War. The poems were cut from newspapers. Poems include Yankee Doodle's Ride to Richmond, Now and Then, The South's Call to Arms, and God Save the South.

Dates: 1861