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The War Women and a Sailor’s Grave in Memory
A poetic meditation on a mother knitting a baby boot beside a grave, juxtaposed with a public temperance speech praising women who lobby against the liquor trade. The piece laments social upheaval, honors wartime sacrifice, and argues for steadfast womanly duty in a temperance movement amid Civil War echoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapies
Anpd
Free Republic
Confederacy
Jesus
George
Aries Ee Waesteris
Albert Rosenthal
Fort Wayne
Joseph