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Posted: May 01 2013 at 11:22pm | IP Logged Quote knowloveserve
I had never heard of him!!!

What a treasure! He was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War! He then converted to Catholicism and became a priest... and he was a poet! Even better... his poetry is beautiful! He has a lot of stuff free all over online ... I'm drooling over his "Child Verse: Grave and Gay" and he also has verses for the whole Rosary!

We are just kicking into our Civil War studies and I was trying to choose a poet for this term... when along came Fr. Tabb, priest, poet, ex-Confederate soldier. Incredible. I splurged on buying one of the last affordable used copies of The Amazing John Tabb (Sorry! Check add all?) and am so eager to get it.

Anyway, check him out... I'm over the moon here...

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Posted: May 02 2013 at 1:02am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
What a great discovery, Ellie! I love history connections like that. Sounds like he would be a great project for our Catholic history fair next year - I'm always on the look out for Catholic history that isn't well known.

I'm going to link this to the Civil War sesquicentennial thread as a topic and resource.

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Fr. Abram Ryan was another Civil War poet. His poetry is also beautiful and very accessible even to the youngest child. "The Sword of Robert E. Lee" and "Rosary of my Tears" are stunningly beautiful. Ryan is pro-South, so most of his poetry will reflect the Confederacy.

Check him out also.

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Posted: May 02 2013 at 5:08pm | IP Logged Quote knowloveserve
Here's a good synopsis of Fr. Tabb.

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StephanieA wrote:
Fr. Abram Ryan was another Civil War poet. His poetry is also beautiful and very accessible even to the youngest child. "The Sword of Robert E. Lee" and "Rosary of my Tears" are stunningly beautiful. Ryan is pro-South, so most of his poetry will reflect the Confederacy.

Check him out also.

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I included some info on Father Ryan on the Civil War thread here. I'm excited to read more about Father Tabb, now.

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