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 | | The edition of his complete poems was not issued until the South was recovering from the ravage of war, and was entitled “The Poems of Henry Timrod, edited with a sketch of the Poet’s life by Paul H. Hayne. |
 | | Before the Revolution, Henry Timrod, of German birth, the founder of the family in America, was a prominent citizen of Charleston, and the president of that historic association, the German Friendly Society, still existing, a century and a quarter old. |
 | | Again in the succeeding generation, in the Seminole war and in the peril of St. Augustine, the German Fusiliers were commanded by his son, Captain William Henry Timrod, who was the father of the poet, and who himself published a volume of poems in the early part of the century. |
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