Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908

Poet and journalist.

From the description of Letters, 1874-1904. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36321577

Poet and newspaper editor, of Baltimore, Md., and Augusta, Ga.

From the description of James Ryder Randall papers, 1855-1864; 1905-1912 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24599979

Journalist.

From the description of My Maryland, ca. 1861. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 174215698

Poet and songwriter.

From the description of James Ryder Randall card, circa 1860-1908. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 259801898

James Ryder Randall (1839-1908) was a poet and newspaper editor of Baltimore, Md., and Augusta, Ga. He is known for writing the poem Maryland, My Maryland, 1861, which became a war hymn of the Confederacy and later the state song of Maryland. Randall entered Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., when he was about ten years old and left school in his graduating year for health reasons to take a voyage to Rio de Janeiro. After his voyage he returned to Baltimore, then moved to Florida, then to Louisiana, where he taught English literature and Classics at Poydras College, Pointe Coupee. He served for a time in the Confederate Army but left the service for health reasons. He subsequently worked as a writer for the Augusta Chronicle for twenty years, as secretary for Congressmen Fleming and O'Brien of Georgia, and as an editorial writer in Baltimore. He married Katherine S. Hammond of South Carolina in 1865.

From the guide to the James Ryder Randall Papers, ., 1855-1864; 1905-1912, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)