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The Uniforms and a Lisping Lover in a Civil War Tale
A long composite piece blends a sentimental poem about colonial uniforms with a comic domestic tale of Lawyer Alexander Grant and Agnes Maxwell who overcomes a lisp to accept true love. The excerpt also includes Civil War era notes on Fortress Monroe, politics, and military minutiae.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Grant
Captain Dutton
Botany Bay
Grant
Suse
Symptons
Optica
Lake House
Littlecat
Agnes Maxwell
Miss Maxwell
Alexander
Agnes
Alexthander the Great
M. D
Australia
Phillip
Aleck
Rea
Philip Pierson
United States
Virginia
Union
James River
Norfolk
Richmond
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland
Point Corttfort
Hygrin
Fortress
Monroe
Wilson
England
The
Military Institute
Frankforr
Columbia
London
Secretary of War
Manchester
Whitworth
Wich
Europe
United Stes
Caleb B. Smith
Secessioo~ Sty
le Interior
Coast Survey