...l-prisoner poets. Dirges for the great dead became a popular form, in which the spirit of southern song poured itself out. I had in my collection no fewer than forty-seven monodies and dirges on Stonewall Jackson ; some dozens on Ashby and a score on Stuart. Some of these were critically good; all of them high in sentiment; but Flash's Jackson --heretofore quoted, when noting that irremediable loss-stands i...