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Description and Notes
Poem.
Facsimile of manuscript.
Originally published in Atlantic monthly, September 1867.
Publication date based on date of extract of author's letter printed at end of text.
Extract of letter from the author dated Aug. 21, 1879 printed at end of text gives publication history of poem and indicates that inspiration for poem was an 1867 New York Tribune news item reporting the memorialization of the graves of both Confederate and National (Union) soldiers by women in Columbus, Mississippi.
Issued folded (two pages) with text printed in two columns.