Fanny Green Borland
<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/shelby/bios/mooresbo3bs.txt>, was first born daughter of Colonel Solon Borland, M D, (Organizer of 3rd Ark Cav) <http://www.rootsweb.com/~arwashin/pics/solon.html>

Fanny (Fannie) Borland was acclaimed an accomplished poetess by many, including Fay Hempstead (1847-1934), --- first published in Arkansas Gazette when twelve, at age seventeen, while living in Princeton, Dallas County, Arkansas she penned (under name Violet Lea) her renowned; "DEAD CONFEDERACY" published, with glowing words of her young ability, in London's "Cosmopolitan" 21 December 1871 after Father Abram Ryan gave her work to them. It was, undoubtedly, the poem mentioned in 27 December 1865 entry of Virginia Davis Gray's,1863-1865 diary, annoted and published by Dr Carl H Moneyhon in 1983 Arkansas Historical Quarterly (2005 original to Special Collections, University of Arkansas, M C 1618), also is signed copy of Fannie's "Dead Confederacy", ARK COLL PS2235.L3 D33 1865.

SEE:
<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/shelby/newspapers/thedeadc2nw.txt>

ALSO:
<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/shelby/newspapers/thedeadc7nw.txt> (1872 news)

She wrote "At My Father's Feet" in memory of her father, Solon Borland, M D: Mexican War, USA Major, U S Senator, Minister to Nicaragua, Colonel Confederate States Army
<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/shelby/newspapers/atmyfath3nw.txt>

Comments by General John M Harrell in 1894 about Fanny Borland's poetery:

"I congratulate you on republishing the "Dead Confederacy " of Fannie Borland. How appropriate it is now[1894], and was when written [1865], by a girl of not then twenty [17]. It reads to me like a fragment from Keato. It glows with passion, but is crystalline in its pride, mournful and graceful as winter and night, which it invokes. Miss Borland was a great genius who perished too son(sic) [1879]. I knew her, and saw her in 1870, when she completed a rare quartette of gifted, beautiful girls, that formed the family of Gen. [Albert] Pike, in Memphis [at Memphis Appeal newspaper, 1867-68], the others being the Misses [Lillian & sister] Pike and Miss Sallie Johnson, now Mrs. Cabell Breckinridge, each a type of surpassing beauty. Miss Johnson was sole daughter of exSenator R. W. Johnson, and Miss Borland, eldest daughter of ex Minister Solon Borland.". Poem reportedly found in Confederate Veteran, Volume I, No III, page380.

<http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/topic/news/CV/cv1894pg2.htm>

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Fannie was subject of a research project at Arkansas History Commission #78-0003 resulting in Russell P. Baker, Archivist at Arkansas History Commission, publishing an article in "The Pulaski County Historical Review", Vol XXIX, No. 3, Fall 1981 titled FANNIE GREEN BORLAND MOORES

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For those interested, my newest, 190 page, documented booklet, "Solon Borland & FAMILY" will be mailed the week of June 12th to:

Old State House Museum, Butler Center of Arkansas Studies, Arkansas History Commission in Little Rock, Special Collections at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Shilo Museum, Springdale and like places at Memphis, TN, Norfolk, Suffolk & The William & Mary College, Williamsburg, VA, New Orleans, LA and Murfreesboro, NC.

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