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Simms, William Gilmore

author, poet, was born April 17, 1806, in Charleston, S. C. He was a voluminous romancer and verse-writer of Charleston. He was the author of The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy Rivers; Martin Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe; and twelve volumes of verse: Atlantis; Lays of the Palmetto; and Areytos, or Songs and Ballads of the South. Other works of his include A History of South Carolina; and Lives of Marion, General Greene, Captain John Smith, and Chevalier Bayard. He died June 11, 1870, in Charleston, S. C.