Randall, JAMES RYDER, the author of 'Maryland, my Maryland,' was born in Baltimore, 1st
January 1839, taught for a while in a Louisiana college, and then turned to journalism. Shut out from the army by a delicate constitution, he still gave powerful aid to the southern cause by his lyrics. These include, besides 'Maryland' (1861; called forth by news of the passage of the first Massachusetts troops through the streets of Baltimore, and the consequent bloodshed), 'Stonewall Jackson,' 'There's Life in the Old Land Yet,' and others. Since 1866 he has edited a paper in Augusta, Georgia.