CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: FATHER RYAN ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by James H. Douglas JimRedWing@aol.com 02 November 2001 ***************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg.388. The Confederate column of the Fort Worth Register says: Abraham Joseph Ryan, born in 1840, died in 1886, Norfolk, Va., was of Irish parentage, a Catholic priest, chaplain in the Confederate army. After the war, edited religious and literary papers in New Orleans and Knoxville and had charge of the church at Mobile. In 1870 he published his "Poems, Patriotic, Religious and Miscellaneous." He died at Louisville, Ky., 1886. His poems, "Conquered Banner," "Sword of Lee," "Erin's Flag," and "Susan Corda," are brilliant constellations that will shine in the literary firmament as fixed stars."