Abram Joseph Ryan (February 5, 1838 – April 22, 1886) was an American poet, Catholic priest, Catholic newspaper editor, orator, and former Vincentian. Historians disagree on whether Ryan served as a military chaplain for the Confederate States of America. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the South" and the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".
Ryan was born in Maryland to Irish Catholic immigrants. He attended a Christian Brothers school in Missouri, and then, at the age of 13, he attended a seminary run by the Vincentian Fathers. He entered the Vincentians and was sent to seminary in New York, to study theology and oversee the boys in the seminary's school.
Vocally opposed to abolitionism, he was sent back to Missouri. Having gained experience as a preacher in rural areas, Ryan was ordained in 1860. After the American Civil War broke out, he went back and forth a few times between New York and Missouri, and then to Illinois. While he never formally joined the army, he served as a freelance chaplain for the last two years of the war for both North and South soldiers, during which time his enlisted brother was killed.
Ryan had been writing poetry since his college days, and his "The Conquered Banner" was printed in June 1865. He moved from one parish in the South to another, writing poetry and sermons. He founded a journal which published mainly Southern writers, and published a volume of his own collected poetry which was popular in the US and in Ireland. He died in 1886 in Kentucky and was buried in Mobile, Alabama.
of the post-Civil War Confederate poems. It was written by Father AbramJosephRyan, a Roman Catholic priest and Confederate Army chaplain. He has been...
States of America, and at its foot is a stanza from the poem CSA by AbramJosephRyan. Civil War Unknowns Monument Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier...
for Boys before adopting its current name in 1927 to honor Father AbramJosephRyan. In September 1954, the school began admitting black students, making...
memorial in Augusta honoring four Southern poets: Sidney Lanier, Father AbramJosephRyan, James R. Randall, and Paul Hamilton Hayne. She also supported the...
this point of view included poets Henry Timrod, Daniel B. Lucas, and AbramJosephRyan, and fiction writer Thomas Nelson Page. Others, like African American...
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881), James Ryder Randall (1839–1908), and AbramJosephRyan (1838–1886). All four poets are associated with the Confederate States...
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included several articles about Jefferson Davis written by Cunningham, AbramJosephRyan's poem entitled, The Conquered Banner, and an article about the town...
Pennsylvania. A short biography was published together with one on AbramJosephRyan and selections from their poems in 1963, by Morris Scott, Jr., with...
(born 1800), English dramatist, poet and public official April 15 – AbramJosephRyan, American poet, active proponent of the Confederate States of America...
around 75 protesters marched from a statue of pro-Confederate Reverend AbramJosephRyan to Mardi Gras Park, where they demanded that civic leaders rename...
poets Paul Hamilton Hayne, Sidney Lanier, James Ryder Randall, and AbramJosephRyan. Germany's Foreign Minister, Gottlieb von Jagow, said in a speech...
article: January 29 - David Gray, Scottish (died 1861) February 5 (?) - AbramJosephRyan, American (died 1886) February 16 - Henry Adams, American historian...
Hill (1983). Joseph Smith: The First Mormon. Signature Books. p. 413. ISBN 978-0941214162. Ryan C. Jenkins (2023). The Assassination of Joseph Smith. Cedar...
Labrador Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Abram Kean, Old and Young Ahead, Edited by Shannon Ryan, 2000. Naboth Winsor, Stalwart Men and Sturdy Ships...
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