Francis Orray Ticknor

Francis Orray Ticknor (1822–1874) was a Georgia physician and poet whose Little Giffen of Tennessee became one of the best-loved Southern war 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: Little Giffen of Tennessee.