The Land They Loved Volume II

THIS BOOK IS THE FIRST VOLUME of a two-volume collection of Confederate Poets and Poems, and the second entry into a planned five-volume Southern poetry collection, The Land They Loved. The first book of the series was Southern Poets and Poems, 1600-1860, published in 2023. Poetry conveys a kind of truth not found in other forms of human communication. The great William Gilmore Simms said that verse was necessary to understand the Confederate people in their historic struggle for independence. S