...hem poems which, with a larger eloquence than then appeared, sounded the knell of the wooden battleship. As might have been expected, defeat had more poets than victory; Boker, however, wrote , and Lucy Larcom . For the capture of New Orleans there were Boker's and (the name of a Federal ship sunk during the action), while Brownell's was as triumphant as the attack. Do you know of the dreary land, ...