... Southern struggle. This poem, so dramatic in its quality, so concise in its expression, so vital in its phrasing, is destined to outlive all the tributes to the great leaders of the Confederacy. Mrs. Preston 's and Mrs. Townsend's and the anonymous are poems of the same general tenor, but they lack the freshness and the vigour of Ticknor's poem. With the publication of Hayne's poems on Vicksburg ...