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BIOGRAPHIES OF POETS
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BIOGRAPHIES OF POETS A, T B (‒) A poet, novelist, and editor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; as a child, he lived in New York, New Orleans, and Portsmouth. In New York,Aldrich met with success as a poet before the age of twenty.Thereafter,he worked as an editor for several journals and papers, including the Evening Mirror and the Home Journal. With the outbreak of war,Aldrich hoped to receive an appointment with either the army or the navy; when he received neither, he decided to serve instead as a war correspondent, working in that capacity until his return to New York in . In , he moved to Boston, became editor of Every Saturday, and married Lilian Woodman. Aldrich served as editor of the Atlantic Monthly, one of the most prestigious literary magazines in the country,from to .In addition to writing short stories and several successful novels, including The Story of a Bad Boy (), he published seven volumes of poetry. A, E A C A (‒) An accomplished journalist and poet, Elizabeth Anne Chase grew up in Farmington, Maine, and attended Farmington Academy (later Maine State Teachers College). In , she began to write for the Portland Transcript and in , under the pseudonym Florence Percy, published her first book of verse, Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine. Sales from this volume funded her travel to Rome, where she served as a correspondent for American newspapers and met the sculptor Benjamin Paul Akers, whom she married in . Although Benjamin Akers had died in , in she still published Poems under the name Elizabeth Akers, even though in she had already married Elijah M. Allen, whom she met while working as a government clerk in Washington, D.C. (–). After the war, she and her new husband moved to Richmond,Virginia, and then in to Portland, Maine, where she was literary editor of the Daily Advertiser , until they moved to Tuckahoe, New York, in . In the remaining thirty years of her life, Allen published Queen Catherine’s Rose (), The High-Top Sweeting (), and The Ballad of the Bronx (). A, J B (‒) Born on a plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina, Joseph Allston was the son of General Joseph Allston. After graduating from South Carolina College in , he began practicing law in Charleston. When the Civil War broke out, he volunteered and was made a captain. “Stack Arms” was written while Allston was a prisoner of war. He later published two chapbooks of poetry, Sumter () and The Battle of Lake Erie (). A, R. M. In his Civil War in Song and Story, Frank Moore adds a note to “The Song of the South,” stating that “Captain R. M. Anderson, of Louisville, Kentucky, offered his whole command, consisting of ninety rifles, to the Governor of South Carolina, stipulating that they would bear their own expenses in going to Charleston and returning to Kentucky.”WilliamGilmoreSimms collected a poem called“The New Star”by B. M. Anderson in his War Poetry of the South ().These two authors may be the same man. B, J. R. A physician from Virginia, J. R. Bagby wrote poems in support of the Confederacy. “The Empty Sleeve” was included in William Gilmore Simms’s collection War Poetry of the South (), suggesting that it enjoyed some popularity during the war. B, C A R (‒?) From Charleston, South Carolina, Caroline Rutledge was educated in New Haven, Connecticut, and then returned to Charleston, where she married Isaac Ball. Although she began writing poetry as a young girl, until the Civil War she had never published under her own name.During the war,she published several poems supporting the Confederacy . Critics of her verse most often comment that it is written “from the heart,” not studied or “transcendental” in style. Ball published The Jacket of Gray and Other Fugitive Poems in . B, F A. (‒) Frederick A. Bartleson was a colonel of the One Hundredth Illinois Regiment in the Union army. His military service proved him to be a remarkably dedicated soldier. Bartleson enlisted in , lost one arm in the battle at Shiloh, and was captured while leading a charge during the battle at Chickamauga.As a prisoner,he was taken to Libby Prison* for Union officers in Richmond, Virginia. After a year, Bartleson was exchanged and returned to the command of his regiment, where he died a few days later in the battle at Kennesaw Mountain in . In , Margaret W. Peele edited and published Bartleson’s Letters from Libby Prison,Being...