The Dixie Book of Days

My Life is but a leaf upon the tree-- A growth upon the stem that feedeth all. A touch of frost--and suddenly I fall, To follow where my sister-blossoms be.

Let the autumn hoarfrost gather, Let the snows of winter drift, For there blooms a fruit of valor that The world may not forget. Fold your faded gray coat closer, for It was you...

In the preparation of this volume of quotations illustrative of the history and literature of the South, the editor wishes to acknowledge the kindness of publishers in granting...

If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union, that it will free the States from their moral obligations, and as it will be t...

Instead of superficial adornments and supine action, the intellectual sympathies and interests of these women were large, and they undertook with wise and just guidance, the man...

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...

... The _Virginia_, that iron diadem of the South, whose thunders in Hampton Roads consumed the _Cumberland_, overcame the _Congress_, put to flight the Federal Navy, and achiev...

Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland! My mother State! to thee I kneel, Maryland! For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous...

But talkin' the way I see it, a big feller and a little feller, SO-CALLED, got into a fite, and they fout and fout a long time, and everybody all round kep' hollerin' hands off,...

Emancipation. Jan. 11; Feb. 12; Aug. 1, 2, 3; Sept. 3 22, 45, 176, 177, 178, 201 Lincoln on. Sept. 22 216 Southern view of. Feb. 28; June 2; Oct. 16 58, 129, 230