Francis Orray Ticknor

All were in a recognizable style, mixing formal and informal writing; he enjoyed punning, and many of them had "a charming air", according to assistant professor of English at the Georgia Institute of Technology Allan Andrews Brockman.

[9] Paul Hamilton Hayne described him in a letter in 1871 to Margaret Junkin Preston as "[s]uch a fellow for 'quips' and 'Quirks' and odd 'pellets of the brain'; for grotesque phantasies and preposterous puns".

[10] His correspondences with others revealed, in the words of Clement Eaton, "an earthy sense of humour", as he talked of riding out on his horse Kitty to minister to poor people, sometimes paid in cash, and sometimes unpaid; he once recounting attending the sheriff's sale of the property of someone who had failed to pay his bill: a cow and calf, a table, two chairs, a handle-less coffee mill, a pan with holes in, and some soap, the sale of which yielded less than US$5.

[7] Ticknor was a physician at the Confederate Hospital during the Civil War, and tended to the wounded soldier, who left to go back to the battlefield before being cured completely, and presumably died in battle.

Literary scholar Sarah Cheney explained the similarities: The Civil War had practically the same effect on Timrod and Ticknor.

[21] "The Virginians of the Valley" follows in popularity; it was highly praised by Hayne, who thought it superior to James Russell Lowell's ode to Virginia.

[22] His war poetry celebrates Confederate victories and laments the losses, and pays tribute to well-known Southern leaders.

W. Brock and Ward Pafford published a short article called "Georgia's First Confederate Poet" in 1951, in a publication of Emory University.

[31] A short biography was published together with one on Abram Joseph Ryan and selections from their poems in 1963, by Morris Scott, Jr., with Macon's Southern Press.

[34] In 1934, H. L. Boyd of Peabody College was working on a doctoral thesis on Ticknor,[35] but switched to "English Grammar in American Schools from 1850 to 1890" the year after.