The Land We Love

The eponymous land was the Southland, and the magazine recounted the South's story of the American Civil War, communicating "a hatred of the North", according to Frank Luther Mott.

Hill wrote much of the material; other contributors included Richard Malcolm Johnston, John Reuben Thompson, Francis Orray Ticknor, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and Margaret Junkin Preston.

[1] Hill's editorial stance on the Civil War was moderate in comparison to those of other magazines such as H. Rives Pollard's Southern Opinion, seeking to assuage both sides, but ending up satisfying neither.

[5] Unusually for such magazines immediately following the Civil War, Hill paid his contributors, and had a good reputation for paying them promptly.

[7] The articles dealt with a wide range of agricultural subjects, from raising peaches and grapes to the function of leaf stomata in plants for regulating water loss.

[6] In the article he expressed a hope that the plant would prove to grow well during hot summers and thus provide a good source of cattle fodder.