"To the army of the southern Confederacy, who have delivered the South from despotism, and who have won for generations yet unborn the precious guerdon of constitutional republican liberty: to this vast legion of honor, whether limping on crutches through the land they have saved and immortalized, or surviving uninjured to share the blessings their unexampled heroism bought, or sleeping dreamlessly in nameless martyr-graves on hallowed battle-fields whose historic memory shall perish only with the remnants of our language, these pages are gratefully and reverently dedicated by one who, although debarred from the dangers and deathless glory of the "tented field," would fain offer a woman's inadequate tribute to the noble patriotism and sublime self-abnegation of heR dear and devoted countrymen"--Page 3.

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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

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Transcribed from: Macaria, or, Altars of sacrifice / by the author of "Beulah." 2nd ed. Richmond : West & Johnston, 1864 (Columbia, S.C. : Evans & Cogswell, printers). 183 p. ; 24 cm. Imprint date on wrapper is 1865.

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