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Collection Reference Number GLC02453.03
From Archive Folder Items relating to American literary figures 
Title Verse one of poem "Maryland, my Maryland"
Date ca. 1890-1899
Author Randall, James Ryder (1839-1908)  
Document Type Miscellany
Content Description On stationary printed "United States Senate, Washington, D.C." Date is also printed "189_" but exact year is not filled in.
Subjects Art, Music, Theater, and Film  Poetry  Literature and Language Arts  
People Randall, James Ryder (1839-1908)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Randall wrote "Maryland, My Maryland" while at school in Louisiana in 1861. Eventually "Maryland, My Maryland" was adopted as the State song of Maryland in 1939.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945