William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a novelist, poet, and essayist and was considered the South's premier literary figure at the height of his popularity.
No less an authority than Edgar Allen Poe remarked of Simms that he has surpassed, we think, any of his countrymen as a novelist.
Simms's literary achievements include more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American history.
Perhaps the least considered parts of Simms's ove.
University Of South Carolina Press Writing war and reunion: selected civil war and reconstruction newspaper editorials by william gilmore simms, hardcover/jeffery j. rogers
