Strangers to Us All Lawyers and Poetry

Howard Hayne Caldwell

(1831-1860)
South Carolina

"HOWARD HAYNE CALDWELL was born in Newberry [South Carolina] in 1831 . . . ." [George Armstrong Wauchope, The Writers of South Carolina: With a Critical Introduction, Biographical Sketches, and Selections in Prose and Verse 104 (Columbia, South Carolina: The State Co., Publishers, 1910)(Wauchope places Caldwell's ]

Caldwell was a lawyer. [Source: Edwin Anderson Alderman & Joel Chandler Harris (eds.), Library of Southern Literature 67 (New Orleans: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1910)(1907)(Vol. 15, Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors, 1929, Lucian Lamar Knight ed.); Elizabeth Fox-Genovese & Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview 696 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)]

Poetry

Howard H. Caldwell, Oliatta, and Other Poems (New York: Redfield, 1855) [online text]

________________, Poems (Boston: Whittemore, Niles & Hall, 1858) [online text]

[My thanks to Alton T. Loftis for a note correcting Caldwell's date of birth and providing biographical information on Caldwell.]