Part 5

JEFFERSON DAVIS, 1808-1889 269 Trip To Kentucky at Seven Years of Age, and Visit to General Jackson 271 Life of the President of the United States 272 Farewell to the Senate, 1861 274

EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-1849 276 To Helen 279 Israfel 279 Happiness 281 The Raven 281

ROBERT TOOMBS, 1810-1885 284 Farewell to the Senate, 1861 286

OCTAVIA WALTON LE VERT, 1810-1877 288 To Cadiz from Havanna, 1855 289

LOUISA SUSANNAH M'CORD, 1810-1880 291 Woman's Duty 292

JOSEPH G. BALDWIN, 1811-1864 294 Virginians in a New Country 294

ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS, 1812-1883 296 Laws of Government 297 Sketch in the Senate, 1850 298 True Courage 301

ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK, 1814-1865 301 Red Eagle, or Weatherford 302

PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE, 1816-1850 305 Florence Vane 305

THEODORE O'HARA, 1820-1867 308 Bivouac of the Dead 308

FOURTH PERIOD ... 1850-1895.

GEORGE RAINSFORD FAIRBANKS, 1820- 311 Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles 311

RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON, 1822- 314 Mr. Hezekiah Ellington's Recovery 315

JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON, 1823-1873 317 Ashby 318 Music in Camp 319

JABEZ LAMAR MONROE CURRY, 1825- 321 Relations between England and America 322

MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON, 1825- 324 The Shade of the Trees 324

CHARLES HENRY SMITH, ("BILL ARP"), 1826- 326 Big John, on the Cherokees 327

ST. GEORGE H. TUCKER, 1828-1863 329 Burning of Jamestown in 1676 330

GEORGE WILLIAM BAGBY, 1828-1883 332 Jud. Brownin's Account of Rubinstein's Playing 332

SARAH ANNE DORSEY, 1829-1879 336 A Confederate Exile on His Way to Mexico, 1866 338

HENRY TIMROD, 1829-1867 341 Sonnet--Life Ever Seems 344 English Katie 344 Hymn for Magnolia Cemetery 345

PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE, 1830-1886 346 The Mocking-Bird (At Night) 348 Sonnet--October 349 A Dream of the South Wind 349

JOHN ESTEN COOKE, 1830-1886 350 The Races in Virginia, 1765 351

ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE, 1830-1894 358 Changes Wrought by the War 360 The Country Gentlemen 360 The Negroes 362

ALBERT PIKE, 1809-1891 365 To the Mocking-Bird 365

WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON, 1812-1882 367 Major Jones's Christmas Present 368

JAMES BARRON HOPE, 1827-1887 370 The Victory at Yorktown 371 Washington and Lee 372

JAMES WOOD DAVIDSON, 1829- 373 The Beautiful and the Poetical 373