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Notes on the Text
This poem, which has been copied from its original with the names of the girls changed, was found in a folder labeled Mulkey, Alice Hawkins at the University of North Texas Special Collections. An article in the TEXAS REPUBLICAN (Marshall, Texas), July 13, 1861, p. 4, c. 1 describes the event in which this poem was first used.
“At a flag presentation on the 25th of May, at Bellefonte, Ala., to the Jackson Hornets, the following young ladies stepped forward, one by one, representing the seceded States as they left the old Confederacy carrying with them all those rights and liberties bequeathed to them by our ancestors of the Revolution, repeating the following beautiful, appropriate, and patriotic lines, written and composed by Laura Lorrimer, one of Tennessee’s most-gifted poetesses:”
The Transcription
Miss Nannie Champ- South Carolina
First to rise against oppression;
In this glorious Southern land;
Home of dead and living heroes,
South Carolina takes her stand
Miss Mattie Parker- Florida
And I come with greeting sisters,
Where, amid her orange [bowers],
Wave fair Florida her scepter,
Browned with rarest, sweetest flowers
Miss Ella Slater- Georgia
Lo! ^and Georgia uprising,
Burning with the blood of yore,
Sends her children forth to conquer
Peace from haughty foes once more
Miss [Sara Wyman]- Alabama
In the new-born arch of glory,
Lo! where shines the central star,
Alabama and her radiance
Never cloud of shame shall mar.
Miss Mattie Sweatt- Mississippi
Sisters! room for Mississippi!
Well she knows the martial strains;
(Cont. on Untitled Poem: Side 2)
The poem can also be found in a compilation of works entitled Personal and Political Ballads edited by Frank Moore and published in 1864 in New York. The work contains ballads from “various sources, Rebel as well as National, and are presented to the reader without note or comment.”
Dublin Core
Title
Untitled
Subject
Confederacy
Description
Poem Copied from Original Newspaper source with names changed
Creator
Alice Hawkins Mulkey
Source
UNT Special Collections
Date
1861-1863
Contributor
Civil War Museum
Relation
Civil War Collection
Format
Document
Language
English
Type
Text