James Ryder Randall (1839-1908)
MSA SC 3520-2667

Biography:

Born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 1, 1839.  Son of John K. Randall and Ruth M. (Hooper) Randall.  Studied in Baltimore under Joseph H. Clarke.  Attended Georgetown College, c. 1849.  Married Katherine Hammond in 1866; eight children.  Died of complications from the flu on January 15, 1908.

Poet, journalist, author, teacher.  Teacher of English and Latin, Poydras College in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, c. 1860.  Composed the poem "Maryland, My Maryland," in April, 1861 in response to news that the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment had fired on a crowd of civilians in his hometown of Baltimore.  The poem was published in the New Orleans Delta on April 26, 1861 and reprinted all over the South.  Was prevented due to ill health from serving in the Confederate army.  Associate editor of the Constitutionalist in Augusta, Georgia after the Civil War.  Moved to Washington, D.C. and became secretary to Georgia Representative W. H. Fleming and later to Georgia Senator Joseph E. Brown.    Washington correspondent for the Augusta Chronicle.  Writer for the (Baltimore) Catholic Mirror and the New Orleans morning Star.

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