The Guerillas A Southern War Song Composed In The Yankee Bastile Followed By A Poem Of Nine Stanzas

by Severn Teackle Wallis

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Richmond, VA? : 1862. Printed broadside, 11 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches, on yellow paper, the title and text enclosed within an ornamental border. Written by Baltimore, Maryland, lawyer Severn Teackle Wallis 1816-1894 while imprisoned by the Federals at Fort Lafayette. One of the founders of the Maryland Historical Society and Provost of the University of Maryland, Wallis was a Confederate sympathizer, though he had not advocated secession; for arguing vigorously against the doctrine of military

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