Continuing with part 3 of Evelyn: A Romance of the War Between the States by Henry Mazyck Clarkson.

Dr. Clarkson was born in 1835 and enlisted in the SC militia in December of 1860 when he was 25 years old. He served in an artillery battery in Charleston, then in Boykin’s Mounted Rangers (aka the 2nd South Carolina Calvary Regiment). He wrote this lengthy poem just after the war. It was published in 1871.

Previously, in Evelyn, parts 1 & 2. . .

. . . we were introduced to Albert Ashleigh, “a goodly and gallant youth” of South Carolina, and to Evelyn, “beauteous child” of Virginia. They met  in Florence Italy, but a budding romance was cut short when Evelyn informed Albert that she was already betrothed by her father to another. Albert fled in despair.

Evelyn returned with her father to their home in Virginia, where she prays for Albert Ashleigh, though she knows not where he is. In the distance the rumbling of the coming war is heard.

Part 3 has three scenes. Scene one is the outbreak of the war as SC secedes in December, 1860. Scene two is the Battle of Fredericksburg in December, 1862. Scene three is at Glen Arvon, the home of Evelyn, not far from the battlefield of Fredericksburg.

Evelyn, Part 3 from Rob Shearer on Vimeo.