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"Rev. Abraham Ryan was Native of U.S."
[clipping describes discovery of Ryan's baptismal record]

"When Father Ryan, the Poet-Priest..."
[clipping summarizes Ryan's wartime role, especially at Fredericksburg VA]

"Two Soldiers: An Incident of the Battle of Lookout Mountain"
[eyewitness account describes Ryan as wartime chaplain]

"The Late Poet-Priest"
[clipping describes a postwar meeting between Ryan and Jefferson Davis]

"Horrors of the Fever"
[excerpt describes the yellow fever epidemic with lines from Ryan's poetry]

"The Conquered Banner"
[clipping gives Ryan's account of how his most famous poem came to be written]

"An Afternoon in the Sunny South"
[article describes publication of Ryan's first collection of poems in Mobile, Alabama.]

"Memories of Father Ryan: An Old friend..."
[article recounts Nellie Henry's claim of authorship of the poem Reunited.]

"Father Ryan's Poems"
[publication notice for the Baltimore edition of Ryan's collection]

""To All Whom It May Concern""
[text of Bishop Quinlan's notice of Fr. Ryan's writing sojourn in Biloxi]

"Lecture On Nature and Super-Nature"
[admission ticket to a Ryan lecture]

"Father Ryan's Autograph"
[clipping contains a Ryan inscription poem]

"Truth"
[clipping contains a poem attributed to Ryan ]

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