...tual to dignify and elevate the race. Stedman himself, brought up in an older school of lovers of beauty, turned to a more resonant lyre, and wrote such pieces as How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry, Kearny at Seven Pines, Wanted—A Man, Gettysburg, and the stirring romance —pieces full of metrical energy, strong, high spirit, and convinced devotion to the union. Stoddard, writer of delica...