lecture tour that included appearances in Boston, New York, Montreal, Kingston, and Providence, Rhode Island. Contrary to an earlier biographical article which termed this tour unsuccessful, recent research into period newspapers shows that Fr. Ryan's lecture tours of 1882-83 were phenomenally popular, with newspapers in every city Ryan visited describing packed houses and thunderous ovations. In June 1883, he accepted an invitation to recite his poem "The Sword of Robert Lee" at a ceremony marking the unveiling of Lee's statue on the campus of Washington and Lee University, and the same month, delivered the commencement address at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Ryan died April 22, 1886, at a Franciscan friary in Louisville, Kentucky, but his body was returned to St. Mary's in Mobile for burial. He was interred in Mobile's Old Catholic Cemetery. In recognition of his loyal service to the Confederacy, a stained glass window was placed in the Confederate Memorial Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana, in his memory. “The Mobile Register began promoting the idea of putting up a monument in Mobile to honor Ryan.” As a result of this effort, a statue of Ryan was dedicated in July 1913. The statue included a stanza from "The Conquered Banner" below an inscription that reads: "Poet, Patriot, and Priest." Legacy and tributes Ryan's poetic verses appealed to Southern post-Civil War and Lost Cause feelings and were used to "adorn the southern monuments and memorials that would dot the region's landscape". Besides "poet-priest of the South", he was also "widely recognized as the Poet of the Confederacy". and he is marked as "Poet of the Confederacy" on the historical marker near his former house in Biloxi. A city of Norfolk historic marker notes that his boyhood home stood nearby. A memorial plaque has been erected at his former parish, Immaculate Conception Church, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee, is named for him. A statue of Father Ryan was erected in Ryan Park in Mobile, Alabama, and unveiled on 1913-07-13. The park itself is bounded by Spring Hill Avenue, St Michael Street, and Scott Street. Father Ryan is commemorated on the Four Southern Poets Monument in Augusta, Georgia, along with Sidney Lanier, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and James Ryder Randall There is a stained glass window at the Confederate Museum in New Orleans, as well as a stone monument on Jefferson Davis Parkway which was erected