"All students of Southern literature owe a huge debt to Jack Guilds and the University of Arkansas Press for providing us with the elegant and useful new editions of the work of William Gilmore Simms."
-Noel Polk, editor, Mississippi Quarterly

In the first reissue of these documents since 1865, A City Laid Waste captures in riveting detail the destruction of South Carolina's capital city. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), a native South Carolinian and one of the nation's foremost men of letters, was in Columbia and witnessed firsthand the city's capture by Union forces and its subsequent devastation by fire. A renowned novelist and poet, who was also an experienced journalist and historian, Simms deftly recorded the events of February 1865 in a series of eyewitness accounts published in the first ten issues of the Columbia Phoenix...

The author's most important volume of poetry, a collected edition of his past masterpieces.

A significant collection of literary and historical essays demonstrating Simms's importance as a literary theorist and critic.

An American prose epic depicting the late days of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina.

A novel chronicling America's struggle for freedom and independence set against the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last major engagement of the Revolution in the Carolinas.