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4 unusual facts about Henry Timrod


Henry Timrod

Timrod's friend and fellow poet, Paul Hamilton Hayne, posthumously edited and published The Poems of Henry Timrod, with more of Timrod's more famous poems in 1873, including his "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867" and "The Cotton Boll".

In 1856 he accepted a post as a teacher at the plantation of Col. William Henry Cannon in the area that would later become Florence, South Carolina.

After the bloody Battle of Shiloh, he tried again to live the camp life as a western war correspondent for the Charleston Mercury, but this too was short lived as he was not strong enough for the rugged task.

In February 1864 he married his beloved Katie, and they soon had a son, Willie, born on Christmas Eve.


Allen Tate

Pope and Other Poems, which contained his most famous poem, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (not to be confused with "Ode to the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery" by the Civil War poet Henry Timrod).

Ode to the Confederate Dead

However, unlike the "Ode" to the Conferate Dead written by the 19th-century American poet Henry Timrod, Tate's "Ode" is not a straightforward ode.


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