Equity" in 1885. This poem expressed Thompson's reaction to the freeing of the slaves, and implied that some other Southerners were not as angry about the overturning of that institution as Northerners presumed. Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1892, read eight lines from Thompson's "An Address by an Ex-Confederate Soldier to the Grand Army of the Republic", calling him "the finest poet of the Confederacy". Through the 1880s, Thompson moved into the realm of fiction. His early works featured the common thread of simple southern life, taken mostly from Thompson's childhood. With his 1886 semi-autobiographical novel, A Banker of Bankersville, he returned to his Indiana roots. Arguably his most successful and well-known novel was Alice of Old Vincennes. The novel vividly depicted Indiana during the Revolutionary War. Death Thompson died shortly after publication of Alice of Old Vincennes, on February 15, 1901, of pneumonia, aged 56. Bibliography This bibliography may not be complete. Poems (1872–1892) Hoosier Mosiacs (1875) The Witchery of Archery (1878) How to train in Archery (With Will Henry Thompson)(1879) A Tallahassee Girl (1882) Songs of Fair Weather (1883) His Second Campaign (1883) Byways and Bird Notes (1885) At Love's Extremes (1885) (reissued as Milly: At Love's Extremes in 1901) A Banker of Bankersville (1886) Sylvan Secrets in Bird-Songs and Brooks (1887) The Story of Louisiana (1888) A Fortnight of Folly (1888) The King of Honey Island (1892) Ethics of Literary Art (1893) Sweetheart Manette (1894) The Ocala Boy (1895) Stories of the Cherokee Hills (1898) Stories of Indiana (1898) Alice of Old Vincennes (1900) My Winter Garden (1900) Rosalynde's Lovers (1901) Notes External links James Maurice Thompson - (1844-1901) - Indiana & Georgia - Civil engineer, surveyor, naturalist, geologist, lawyer, politician, novelist, poet, sportsman Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Maurice Thompson papers, 1865-1940 1844 births 1901 deaths 19th-century American novelists American lawyers American male novelists People from Howard County, Indiana Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) American male poets 19th-century American poets 19th-century American male writers Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters