The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Day After The Battle

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Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: New York Weekly v. 34 no. 46 — page 8
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXXIV, no. 46, September 29, 1879 (Issue)
Author: Taggard, E. T., 1839- (pseudonym used by Pryor, Paul, 1839-)
Date: September 29, 1879
Edition Description: "All through the corn-fields, Hear that mournful sound, All the darkies am a-weeping, For massa's in the cold, cold ground."
First Sentence: It was on the morning following the surrender of Vicksburg, when relays of soldiers were busily engaged in the mournful duty of burying the dead of both armies in huge pits dug for the purpose, that my attention was attracted toward some negroes, who eagerly scanned the upturned and ghastly faces of the dead as if in search of some one.

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