poem · by a contemporary
Corn-husks
George Dexter Doty (1844–1863), 1864
Named on the page for Battle of Fredericksburg.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.
11–15 December 1862
Battle of Fredericksburg
MEMOIR.
In the spring of 1860, he set out for the West, -on foot, for the
purpose of travel, and as correspondent for his early friend, the
Editor of the " Conneautville Courier," A. J. Mason, Esq., who
was killed at Burnside's Battle of Fredericksburg, as Captain in
the 145th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was absent
five weeks, and his letters were so meritorious that the next
spring Mason engaged him as his " special," to visit the " Oil Re-
gions of Pennsylvania" and Ohio. So well did he do his duty,
that he was engaged to make a " Tour of the West," as " special "
again. He went on foot, and his letters were esteemed as good
as Bayard Taylor's, though his "Views Afoot " were in his own
country. While gone, the Editors of the " Waverley Republican, "4 MEMOIR.
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