Severn Teackle Wallis

Severn Teackle Wallis (1816–1894) was a Baltimore lawyer, scholar and writer, imprisoned in 1861 for his Southern sympathies; his The Guerillas appears in Eggleston’s anthology.

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 Guerillas.