On Tuesday, December 16, the New York Herald printed a list of soldiers killed or wounded at Fredericksburg, including an entry for “First Lieutenant G. W. Whitmore, Company D,” of the 51st New York Infantry. It was mid-morning when poet...
In insult verse, the accuracy of the charge matters less than its confident presentation. To be assertive is to be right; to be memorable is to win.
Each morning I skim the books they study, a few minutes to remember that anger
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If we are at war let the orchards show it, let the pear and fig fall prior to their time, let the radios die and the hounds freeze over their meat.
