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S. C. MERCER

Copyright, 1908,
BY
S.   C.   M E R C E R

FOREWORD.

The poems here collected are in the main reprints of pieces thatoriginally appeared in various newspapers and periodicals, beginningwith the Louisville Journal in the late ’50s. This newspaper was at thattime edited by the brilliant George D. Prentice, my personal friend, whoa few years after I had left college offered me the assistant editorshipof his paper. The imperative duty which at that time I owed to othersforced me to decline this offer, although for many years I wroteeditorials and verses for this then powerful and widely read journal.Many of the poems here collected have appeared in the columns of theLouisville daily papers and have been copied in other journals, Northand South, and in poetic collections. Others were first printed in theNashville Press and Times, of which I was editor during my two terms asPublic Printer of Tennessee, during the administrations of MilitaryGovernor Andrew Johnson and of Governor Brownlow in the days ofReconstruction.

It will be noticed that the partisan poems breathe the spirit of thetimes in which they were written—the stormy ’60s—but I have notthought it wise to change their tone, they being now only the record ofa long-since departed day. There has been some controversy as to theauthorship of the poem “The Angel of the Hospital,” owing to amanuscript copy of this poem being found on the body of a youngConfederate officer killed in one of the battles in Georgia, and fromwhich the poem was reprinted in many of the Southern newspapers. I hadpreviously, however, printed it in the Louisville Journal, and asnewspapers were scarce in the South at that time, the unfortunate youthmust have copied the verses before passing the newspaper on to hiscomrades.

The Author.

Hopkinsville, June 30, 1908.

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