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Gettysburg
This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.
34 pages, Paperback
First published August 4, 2015
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John R. Baker
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John R. Baker
John R. Baker, biologist, physical anthropologist
John R. Baker
John R. Baker, biologist, physical anthropologist
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September 6, 2022
A poem of the battle of Gettysburg originally published in 1866. Written long before any revisionist history, General Robert E. Lee is described as such:
Who has turned his good sword 'gainst his country at need,
Who struck at the hand that first taught him to lead,
Who has forfeited honor, to soldier so dear,
By deserting his flag when the trial drew near.
Of Lee's Army Mr. Baker writes:
With oppression familiar, in arrogance strong,
They are marshaled the champions of slav'ry and wrong.
Who has turned his good sword 'gainst his country at need,
Who struck at the hand that first taught him to lead,
Who has forfeited honor, to soldier so dear,
By deserting his flag when the trial drew near.
Of Lee's Army Mr. Baker writes:
With oppression familiar, in arrogance strong,
They are marshaled the champions of slav'ry and wrong.
Displaying 1 of 1 review