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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.9 (search)
made in Ohio that General Lytle composed the verses. Mr. Ruffin worked in Baton Rouge on State printing, I think, shortly before the war commenced. He was in Memphis, however, when the storm burst in the spring of 1861. With many wishes for your health and happiness, I am, Yours very truly, Joseph G. Fiveash. P. S.—My partner, Mr. Edwards, says that he thinks that Ruffin named the Sugar Bowl as the paper that published the poem. J. G. F. Since writing the above Mr. Robert W. Tunstall, principal of the Norfolk Academy, has called our attention to the fact that the poem was published as early as 1860, in The Poets and Poetry of the West, edited by William T. Coggeshall. See Library of American Literature, volume 8, page 312. In compliance with the request contained in the foregoing letter we have made such an investigation as was in our power, and we are quite well satisfied that General Lytle was in truth the author of the poem in question. Antony and Cleopat