| Lucius Perry Hills "Hills, Lucius Perry, lawyer, poet, elocutionist, was born June 16, 1844, in Bennigton, N.Y. At age of seventeen he enlisted in the tenth regiment New York cavalry and served three years in the civil war. In 1871 he graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan; and since 1875 has practiced his profession in Atlanta, Ga. . . . [A]s a poet humorist of Georgia has given successful elocutionary entertainments in various parts of the United States." [Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 482 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)]
frontispiece Lucius Perry Hills, The Yank and the Reb (and Other Poems)(Atlanta, Georgia: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1917) Poetry Lucius Perry Hills, Echoes (Atlanta, Georgia: By the author, 1892) ______________, A Memory of Song (Atlanta, Georgia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1903) ______________, When Patti Sang (Atlanta: Franklin Pub. House, 1904) [online text] ______________, The Yank and the Reb (and Other Poems)(Atlanta, Georgia: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1917) |
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