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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 28 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 16 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 14 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 33: wit and humor of the war. (search)
Chapter 33: wit and humor of the war. Strange laughter the Confederate mother Goose travesty and satire the Charles Lamb of Richmond camp wit novel Marriage a Skirmisher prison humor even in Vicksburg! sad bill-of-fare northern Misconception Richmond society wit the Mosaic Club and its components Innes Randolph's Forfeit the Colonel's breakfast horror Post-surrender humor even the emancipated. If it be true that Sir Philip Sidney, burning with fever of his death-wound, reproved the soldier who brought him water in his helmet, that he wasted a casque-full on a dying man, then humor borrowed largely of heroism. Many a ragged rebel-worn with hunger and anxiety for the cause, or for those absent loved ones who suffered for it — was as gallant as Sidney in the fray; many a one bore his bitter trial with the same gay heart. We have seen that the southron, war-worn, starving, could pour out his soul in noble song. Equally plain is it, that he rose in defi