Excerpt from Ahab Lincoln: A Tragedy of the Potomac
Excepting Smith’s play, the only title in this group with any quality of literary competence was another, shorter, closet drama, Ahab Lincoln: A T ragedy of the Potomac, written early in the war by Stephen Franks Miller of Georgia, and published in 1861 at Milledgeville, Georgia.
Miller was a citizen of some stature. Born in North Carolina in 1810, he had moved to Georgia as a young man and was active in legal circles. In 1840 he removed to Tuscaloosa, Ala bama, where he edited The Monitor, a Whig journal, till 1847. For the next two years he worked with debow’s Review in New Orleans. He then returned to Georgia Where he lived till his death in 1867. He is best remembered as the author of The Bench and Bar of Georgia (1858) but wrote also Memoir of Gen. David Blackshear (1858) and a novel, Wilkins Wylder; or, The Successful Man At the time Ahab Lincoln was written he was working on The Southern Recorder, a newspaper in Milledgeville.
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