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...
Each morning I skim the books they study, a few minutes to remember that anger
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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.
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.
