Francis Orray Ticknor

This portrait of Ticknor was taken from a sketch done by his granddaughter Michelle Cutliff Ticknor, and published in Maurice Garland Fulton's Southern life in Southern literature where it headed a short collection of some of Ticknor's poems.

Francis Orray Ticknor (November 13, 1822 – December 18, 1874) was an American medical doctor and poet. From the state of Georgia, he became known as a war poet ("Georgia's Confederate Poet"[1]), mostly through the fame he acquired with the ballad Little Giffen.

  1. ^ Brockman 1966, p. 229.

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