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The Southern War Poetry of the Civil War

BY

ESTHER PARKER ELLINGER

Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania, May 1918, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1918

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THE HERSHEY PRESS
HERSHEY, PA.

In the assembling of material so widely scattered and so long unsoughteither by students or by collectors, it has been necessary for meto depend in some measure on the efforts of others who have beenmost generous with their help and assistance. I desire to recordmy gratitude especially to my Father and my Mother, without whoseunfailing sympathy and co-operation this work could not have been done:and to Mrs. C. Francis Osborne of Philadelphia, Miss Sallie Shepherdof Norfolk, Virginia, and Miss Florence D. Johnston of Philadelphia,for books and individual poems. For their courtesy in allowing me freeaccess to the collections committed to their charge I must acknowledgefurther indebtedness to Mr. Wallace H. Cathcart, Vice-President andDirector of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, whosesplendid collection of Civil War items contains many rare and importantimprints and broadsides: and to Mr. Bunford Samuel, of the RidgwayBranch of the Library Company of Philadelphia, to whose privatecollection I am indebted for several poems which I have not foundelsewhere.

Particularly to Dr. Arthur Hobson Quinn of the University ofPennsylvania, under whose direction this thesis was written, I wish toacknowledge my obligation and to express my sincere appreciation forhis guidance and advice.

E. P. E.

University of Pennsylvania, 15 April, 1918.

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