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Randall (JAMES RYDER an American)

JAMES RYDER, an American journalist and composer; born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 1, 1839; was educated at Georgetown College, D. C. He 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, My Maryland" (1861; called forth by news of the passage of the first Massachusetts troops through the streets of Baltimore); "Stonewall Jackson"; "There's Life in the Old Land Yet"; etc. After 1866 he edited a paper in Augusta, Ga. He died Jan. 14, 1908.