Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
Broadside “THE CONQUERED BANNER.” By Father Ryan, 3-3/4”x10”, and reads in part: “...Furl that Banner, for 'tis weary;/Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary; / Furl it, fold it, it is best;/For there's not a man to wave it,/And there's not a sword to save it,/And there's no one left to lave it/In the blood that heroes gave it;/And its foes now scorn and brave it;/ Furl it, hide it--let it rest!” Fine condition. "The Conquered Banner" was one of the most popular of the post-Civil War Confederate poems. It was written by Roman Catholic priest and Confederate Army chaplain, Father Abram Joseph Ryan, who is sometimes called the "poet laureate of the postwar south" and "poet-priest of the Confederacy". Ryan told an interviewer that he wrote the Conquered Banner in Knoxville, Tennessee shortly after General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, "When my mind was engrossed with the thought of our dead soldiers and our dead Cause".
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