Sidney Lanier Collection, . 1899-1931

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Sidney Lanier Collection, . 1899-1931

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Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was an American musician and poet. The collection contains a printed copy of (Southern History Association, 1899) by George Stockton Wills, professor at Western Maryland College, containing the author's extensive manuscript revisions and additions, with pertinent correspondence, 1899-1904, and clippings pasted in. Also included is a mimeographed monograph, by Oliver Orr, Macon, Ga., 1931 (10 pages). Sidney Lanier, Biographical Sketch and Bibliography Sidney Lanier's Fame and Memorials,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881

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Sidney Lanier was a noted Southern poet and composer, born in Macon, Georgia, on Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe University and voluntarily fought for the Confederacy as a member of the 2nd Battalion Infantry (Georgia), and the Signal Corps. It is likely that Lanier contracted tuberculosis during his stay at at Union prison camp, and the complications from that disease would affect Lanier his entire life. After the war, Lanier worked as a tutor and headmaster at an academy in Alabama ...