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William Gilmore Simms
(1806 - 1870 / USA)

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Simms was born in Charleston, S.C., and lived much of his life in or near it. The embodiment of southern letters, Simms was also an influential spokesman for what he saw as the region's social and political concerns. A unionist in the 1832 nullification controversy, in the 1840s he supported the .. .. more >>

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"We follow where the Swamp Fox guides,
His friends and merry men are we;
And when the troop of Tarleton rides,
We burrow in the cypress tree.
The turfy hammock is our bed,
Our home is in the red deer's den,
Our roof, the tree-top overhead,
For we are wild and hunted men."
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1872), U.S. novelist. The Swamp Fox (l. 1-8). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.

"The Tory camp is now in sight,
And there he cowers within his den;
He hears our shouts, he dreads the fight,
He fears, and flies from Marion's men."
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1872), U.S. novelist. The Swamp Fox (l. 77-80). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.

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William Gilmore Simms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South whose novels achieved great prominence ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gilmore_Simms

William Gilmore Simms Society
The purpose of the society is to facilitate the scholarly exchange of ideas about the works and life of William Gilmore Simms, one of nineteenth-century ...
http://www.westga.edu/~simms/

William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870
William Gilmore Simms, 1806-1870. Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870) Writer. Simms was born in Charleston, S.C., and lived much of his life in or near it, ...
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/simms1/bio.html

William Gilmore Simms -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on William Gilmore Simms: outstanding Southern novelist.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067849/William-Gilmore-Simms

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