Excerpt from Poems It will be noticed that the partisan poems breathe the spirit Of the times in which they were written - the stormy '60s-but I have not thought it wise to change their tone, they being now only the record of a long-since departed day. There has been some controversy as to the author ship Of the poem The Angel Of the Hospital, owing to a manuscript copy Of this poem being found on the body of a young Confederate Officer killed in one Of the battles in Georgia, and from which the poem was reprinted in many of the Southern newspapers. I had previously, however, printed it in the Louisville Journal, and as newspapers were scarce in the South at that time, the unfortunate youth must have copied the verses before passing the newspaper on to his comrades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.