(1883-1973) - South Carolina poet laureate. Attended Porter Military Academy (now Porter-Gaud School) in Charleston, SC. His ancestors included a Governor of South Carolina, a chief justice of the US Supreme Court, and a signer of the Declaration of Independance. Later in life, he taught English at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvalia. Mercersburg Academy is an independent, coeducational boarding school for grades 9-12 located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. ...

Rutledge's works

• The Heart's Quest
• Under the Pines
• The Banners of the Coast
• Spirit of Mercesburg
• Old Plantation Days
• Plantation Game Trails
• South of Richmond
• Days off Dixie
• Heart of the South
• A Monarch of the Sky
• Children of Swamp and Wood
• Life's Extras
• Bolio and Other Dogs
• The Flower of Hope
• Peace in the Heart
• Veiled Eros
• When Boys go off to School
• Wild Life in the South
• Brimming Chalice
• An American Hunter
• My colonel and His Lady
• It Will be Daybreak Soon
• The Sonnets of Archibald Rutledge
• Rain on the March
• Christ is God
• Home by the River
• Love's meeting
• Hunter's Choice
• The Beauty of Night
• God's Children
• The Angel Standing
• The Everylasting Light and other Poems
• A Wild Tale
• A Beauty in the Heart
• The Heart's Citidel and other Poems
• Brimming Tide and other Poems
• Those were the Days