Francis Orrery Ticknor, a physician, and the author of several lyrics of the Civil War very popular in the South, was a native of Georgia, and died near Columbus, in that State, in 1874. A posthumous volume of his poems was issued in 1879, with an introduction by Paul H. Hayne. The hero of this poem was Isaac Giffen, a native of the mountainous region of East Tennessee. He had been terribly wounded at Murfreesboro, and was taken by Dr. Ticknor and his wife into their own home. He fell in one of the battles before Atlanta. =Stanza 5.= “Johnson pressed at the front, they say.” Probably General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, is meant. 40. ULRIC DAHLGREN. By Kate Brownlee Sherwood. Kate Brownlee Sherwood. See note on “Thomas at Chickamauga.” Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, the son of Admiral Dahlgren, distinguished himself while serving upon the staffs of General Hooker, General Sigel, and General Meade, lost a leg at Gettysburg, and while on crutches led an expedition to free the Union prisoners in Libby prison at Richmond, during which he was ambushed and slain, on the night of March 2, 1864. He was twenty-two years of age. 41. FARRAGUT. By William Tuckey Meredith. William Tuckey Meredith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1839. He served with Farragut at the battle of Mobile Bay, and was afterward the admiral’s secretary. He subsequently became a banker in New York City. The battle of Mobile Bay was fought August 5, 1864. See “Craven,” below. =Farragut.= See note on “The River Fight.” =Stanza 2.= =Morgan=, a Confederate fort. 42. LEE TO THE REAR. By John Randolph Thompson. John Randolph Thompson, journalist and poet, was born in Richmond, Virginia, October 23, 1823. He abandoned the law to devote himself to literature, and for a dozen years successfully edited the _Southern Literary Messenger_. After the Civil War he was for a time literary editor of the New York _Evening Post_. He died in New York City, April 30, 1873. The incident described in the poem is authentic. For LEE, See “Barbara Frietchie.” =Stanza 1.= THE WILDERNESS is a region a few miles south of the Rapidan river, in Virginia, memorable for the dreadful battle fought there between the Federal army under Grant and the Confederate forces under Lee on the 5th and 6th of May, 1864. =Mendelssohn=, the famous German composer, 1809-1847.