Shelby County TN Archives News.....THE DEAD CONFEDERACY January 21, 1872
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DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE January 21, 1872
(transcribed; 04/16/06)
Copy courtesy of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock.
DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE
Little Rock, ARK, Sunday, January 21, 1872, page2, column3
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"THE DEAD CONFEDERACY"
Some kind friend has sent us a copy of the London Cosmopolitan of December
21st, with the following notice of one of the fair daughters of Arkansas, and the
beautiful poem published on the first page of todays GAZETTE. No higher compliment
could be paid to the young authoress, and we have no doubt the many friends of her
honored father, who once represented the state in the highest legislative tribunal
in the nation, will read with pleasure and delight the high encomium paid her:
In a former number we published a touching poem from the pen of a valued
friend, entitled "The Lost Cause" full of interest and breathing a hopeful
significance that cannot but have its influence in the quarter where its author's
sympathies and many of his tenderest associations lies. We publish this week, in
another column, a poem bearing the above title, which has been sent us by the friend
above alluded to, with the information that it is from the pen of a daughter of
Senator Borland. It is with a feeling of pride and sadness that we present this poem
to the British public --- where, although the subject is among the things of the
past, its beauty will find a ready appreciation. It is touching, tender, chasie,
classic, beautiful. We are glad to take this young author by the hand and welcome
her among the ranks of the poets. We regard this poem as one of the finest rhythmic
tributes that has yet been paid to the "Lost Cause;" and its sprit of tender
resignation, the heart brokenness of its entire utterance cannot but touch the very
souls of those whose sympathies and associations induced them to look upon that
cause almost as a crime. The devotion of the southern women to the Confederate cause
was something exceeding belief, and now that the cause is dead, it will not we hope,
challenge unworthy criticism that we seek to snatch this last wail of their sorrow
from the dangers of inappreciation and oblivion, and place it, where it ought to be
among the lists of those gems of posey which should never be forgotten.
Miss Borland is a native of Little Rock. She is now the wife of an estimable
citizen of Memphis. Her first attempt at poetry, when she was but twelve years of
age [1860], was published in the GAZETTE. Even at that early age her fugitive pieces
were widely copied and favorably commented on by the press.
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Additional Comments:
Poetess Fanny Green Borland (1848AR-1879TN), was eldest daughter of Arkansas' 1842
frontiersman, once U S Senator, Colonel Solon Borland, M D (1811VA-1864TX) with his
third wife, songstress, Mary Isabel Melbourne (1824LA-1862AR). Fanny was born in,
"City of Roses", Little Rock September 1848 and died at "Bluff City",
Memphis 23
August 1879. Solon spelled her name Fanny in his will, she seemingly used Fannie.
"The Dead Confederacy", no doubt her most famous poem, written in 1865, when
she
just turned 17, at Princeton, Arkansas under alias "Violet Lea", with a signed
copy
at Special Collections University of Arkansas. This poem was acclaimed by Generals
Albert Pike and John M Harrell, most likely the poem mentioned in Virginia Davis
GRAY's 1863-1865 diary, published 1983, in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, annoted
and edited by Carl Moneyhon, UALR see entry of 27 Dec 1865, page 168, Part II.
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Other poems we have retrieved are:
"At My Father's Feet"
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"David O Dodd"
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"Judge Not By The Outward Look"
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"To My Son's Scrap-Book"
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From Confederate Veteran, January 1894, page 2;
Gen. John M. Harrell writes: I wrote from a sickroom, down with la grippe. Your
gossipy, genuine, genial "Old VETERAN" comes to cheer me.
I congratulate you on republishing the "Dead Confederacy " of Fannie Borland.
How
appropriate it is now, and was when written, by a girl of not then twenty. It reads
to me like a fragment from Keato. It glows with passion, but is crystalline in its
pride, mournful and graceful as winter and night, which it invokes. Miss Borland was
a great genius who perished too son. I knew her, and saw her in 1870, when she
completed a rare quartette of gifted, beautiful girls, that formed the family of
Gen. Pike, in Memphis, the others being the Misses Pike and Miss Sallie Johnson, now
Mrs. Cabell Breckinridge, each a type of surpassing beauty. Miss Johnson was sole
daughter of ex Senator R. W. Johnson, and Miss Borland, eldest daughter of ex
Minister Solon Borland.
Source:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/topic/news/CV/cv1894pg2.htm
See her Tennessee obituary;
Obituaries:
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