The Baltimore Sun

March 9, 1905, page 12.

Authors of War Songs

Randall And Palmer Honored By Confederate Veterans.

A meeting of the Isaac R. Trimble Camp, No. 1025, United Confederate Veterans, was held Tuesday evening, at which, on motion of Prof. Henry E. Shepherd, historian of the camp, Mr. James Ryder Randall, author of the war song, “Maryland, My Maryland,” and Dr. John Williamson Palmer, author of “Stonewall Jackson's Way,” were elected honorary members, in accordance with the constitution of the camp providing for such distinction to “authors of war songs, or histories, or literature commemorative of the South; or persons who have rendered distinguislled service to the cause of the Confederacy, or in the interest of the South.’

Prof. Shepherd prefaced his motion with the following tribute to the two famous Baltimore poets and litterateurs:

“It seems eminently appropriate that the men who contributed to the glory of the Confederate cause and inspired the zeal and cnthusfasm of our armies by the spirit of devotion breathed through the strains of their poetry, should receive recognition, free and ample, at the hands of Confederate societies, camps and all the organized forms through which the ideals and memories of the Confederacy are preserved and transmitted to the coming ages. They have rendered a service the influence of which we cannot appreciate too highly, for the strains of ‘Maryland, My Maryland’ and the thrilling notes of ‘Stonewall Jackson's Way’ have circled round the globe and girdled the world with their music. The author of each is still living, and both are associated by birth, ancestry and community of interest with our city and State. It is in every sense becoming that their services to the cause should cheerfully receive such recognition as it is in our power to bestow. In order that this conviction may assume definite shape, the accompanying resolution is offered.”

Authors of War Songs, The Baltimore Sun, March 9, 1905, page 12.(PDF)