Blue-Tail Fly.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (89 pages)
- Made in Michigan Writers .
- Made in Michigan Writers .
Cover -- Contents -- The Scale of Empire -- AFTERMATH -- 1880, The Binding Tie -- The Finishing Thoughts of Festus Spencer as He Looks into the Camera -- I -- Frederick Douglass Speaks before the Anti-Mexican War Abolitionists -- Ample Cause of War -- General Taylor Convinces Himself That He Is for War -- Doubt -- Letter to the Governor of Texas -- Notes from Officer Hitchcock's Lost Leather Journal -- Liberation -- By the end -- Three Hundred and Seventy-Two Miles from Home -- Pokagon Accepts Colonel Taylor's Invitation -- Colonel Zachary Taylor Has Pokagon for Tea -- The Escarpment -- In Private Conversation: Buchanan to Like Minds -- The Book Speaks of Pretenders -- South of Houston -- II -- Civil Beginnings -- Darling Wife -- Grey Jebediah -- The Bone Boiler -- Shadows -- 1864, Fragments of a Camp near Yorktown -- 1864, A Pocket Full of Rye -- Snake Swamp -- 1863, Walt Whitman Reads to the Limbless, Dying -- Linsey-Woolsey -- 1864, Dear Mother -- Gettysburg: Blue and Grey -- A Singular Dispersion over Franklin, Tennessee -- Lincoln Dreams of Sarah, the Servant -- "If Not for You" -- 1863, Detroit Riots, Again -- 1864, Dear Son -- III -- Private Athens Descries -- Hannibal of Athens, Georgia -- White Glove Test -- Private Smith's Primer -- Br'er Rabbit in Chickamauga -- Drummer Boy -- Interview: Survivor, Fort Pillow -- A Second Dream of Sarah -- Nigger Pine -- Lincoln Speaks after the Bones Are Thrown -- The White Immensities -- Notes on the Poems -- Credits and Acknowledgments.
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