taneous outburst of popular feeling.
They show the sentiments of the people, and give the lie to the assertion of our enemy, that this revolution is the work of politicians and party leaders alone.
They show the spirit of Southern poetry, and contain a wealth of patriotic sentiment that cannot fail to animals the whole country and meet with a ready response in every heart.
They record the patriotism of Southern women, who possess the proud and unconquerable spirit of Gertrude, in Schiller's "William Tell."
Many of them were written by soldiers in camp, and nearly all have particular reference to some battle, heroic act, or event of the war.
The book preserves poems that would be otherwise lost to the world.
The ballads and songs of the Revolution were only collected a few years ago, and it was a source of much regret that many meritorious and valuable poems, partially preserved by tradition, could not be found.
The numerous friends of "Bohemian" in the ar
