Henry Timrod

Henry Timrod was born in 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina, into a family of German origin; his father, a bookbinder and later a captain of volunteers in the war against the Seminoles, wrote verse. He left the University of Georgia without a degree, gave up law and earned his living as a tutor on plantations. Rejected for service, he followed the war as a correspondent, then from 1864 ran a Columbia newspaper. The burning of the city in 1865 took his newspaper from him; he sold his furniture to live, lost his son shortly after the war and died in Columbia in 1867, in poverty.

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• PoetryOde Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead, at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867Henry Timrod · 1866LiteraturePublic domain