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Choice Poetry: Valiant Manhood's Flinch, John M. Rudy
Choice Poetry: Valiant Manhood's Flinch, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
Throughout the war, the front page of Gettysburg's newspapers, regardless of your political stripe, had an evergreen column. Poetry graced the upper left corner each week. Sometimes raucous, often love-lorn, chiefly patriotic, the poems must have buoyed many a Pennsylvanian spirit as America floundered in the depth of Civil War.
Most of the poems were mainstream schmaltz, passed from paper to paper as each editor read a line or two he liked and thought his readers might appreciate. The poems spread like a particularly odd malignant cancer from organ to organ. [excerpt]