December 8, 1828 - October 7, 1867
American poet, lawyer, teacher, editor and correspondent
His poems include "Katie", "Ethnogenesis", "A Call to Arms", "Caroline" and "The Cotton Boll"
Was associate editor of the "South Carolinian"
Called by some "The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy"
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