[coaster-devel] Ragedies. Here flaunted tilted hats and crin

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 of Edgar A. Perry, and was assigned to Battery "H" of the First
Artillery at Fort Independence. In October his battery was ordered to
Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C. Poe spent a whole year on Sullivan's
Island. Professor C. Alphonso Smith, the well-known Poe authority, says,
"So far as I know, this was the only tropical background that Poe had
ever seen." That the susceptible nature of the young poet was vastly
impressed by the weirdness and melancholy scenery of the Carolina coast
country, there can be very little doubt. The dank tarns and funereal
woodlands of his land