The picture to the right is the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and his friend, Charles Sumner. Sumner was a politician, a senator from Massachusetts, and an ardent abolitionist. Now you know.You now--well, in a second or so--know that the post concerning the origin and the missing stanzas of the Christmas carol "I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day" is up on emergingcivilwar.com.
Give it a read--and the italics are even there! (They fall out regularly when things get transferred, alas).
1863 was not Longfellow's merriest Christmas!
The piece on Longfellow was picked up by another blog--civilianwartimes--and reposted! I think this is good--yes??
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