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Mollie E. Moore Davis

1844–1909


Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis (1844–1909) was an American poet and novelist, born in Alabama and raised in Texas; after her marriage in 1874 she lived in New Orleans, where she became a leading Southern woman of letters.

Her Civil War poems, published under the name Mollie E. Moore, include "Lee at the Wilderness" and "Hood's Old Brigade", reprinted here from W. L. Fagan's Southern War Songs (1890).

  1. Lee at the Wilderness
  2. Hood's Old Brigade
  3. In Memoriam

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