Released from prison in February, 1865, he returned to Georgia,
for the most part afoot, and reached home March 15th.
An account of his war-life is given in his novel, `Tiger-lilies',
treated below.
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* It is sometimes erroneously stated that each was put in charge
of a blockade-runner.
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During the succeeding nine years (1865-73) his life was checkered indeed.
Seriously ill for six weeks, he arose from his bed to see
his mother carried off by consumption and to find himself suffering
with congestion of the lungs. Slightly relieved, Lanier turned his hand
to various projects for making a living: clerking in a hotel
in Montgomery, Ala., for two years; writing* and publishing his novel,
`Tiger-lilies'; teaching at Prattville, Ala., one year, during which time**
he married Miss Mary Day, of Macon, Ga.; studying and then practising law
with his father at Macon, Ga., for five years; now, in the winter of 1872-73,
trying to recuperate at San Antonio, Texas, for hemorrhages had begun in 1868,
and a cough had set in two years later; and, finally, settling in Baltimore,
December, 1873, to devote himself to music and literature.
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