James Barron Hope

James Barron Hope (1829–1887) was a Virginia poet, newspaper editor and Confederate officer, known for occasional verse and Southern patriotic poems.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: The Oath of Freedom.