Sidney Lanier Questions and Answers

"Burial Detail" is about burying bodies after a battle during the Civil War. The speaker is a young solider (Sidney Lanier) who volunteers for the burial detail. (The character is real, but the...

Sidney Lanier was a man born in Macon, Georgia, who fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War and was captured and held prisoner in a Union prison for several months. He found his way to...

Andrew Hudgins, using the voice of the long-dead Civil War solider (musician, teacher, lawyer, etc.) Lanier, wrote After the Lost Ware: A Narrative. He may have chosen to write about Sidney Lanier...