Creator |
Halpine, Charles G. (Charles Graham), 1829-1868. |
Contributor |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Brahma. |
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Halpine, Charles G. (Charles Graham), 1829-1868. Life and adventures, songs, services, and speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly. |
Title |
"Bray-more," or the Welles-iad. : An epic in two bottles. A long way after Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Brahma." |
Title |
If the torpedoer's torpedes |
Title |
Idyl of the iron-clads |
Publisher |
[United States : s.n] |
Publisher |
United States. 1864 |
Date |
[not before 1864?] |
Physical Description |
[4] p. ; 21 cm |
Notes |
Verse in fifteen stanzas; first line: If the torpedoer's torpedes. |
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Caption title. |
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This poem appeared in Charles G. Halpine's The life and adventures, songs, services, and speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly
(New York : Carleton, 1864), in a letter dated "In camp, Folly Island, S.C., April 25, 1863", under the title "An idyl of
the iron-clads."
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The First Battle of Charleston Harbor took place on April 7, 1863, and involved a fleet of ironclad ships for a naval assault
on Charleston, S.C. Mentioned in the poem are Gideon Welles, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont,
commander of the naval forces, and Alban C. Stimers, designer of ironclad vessels.
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Printed on p. [1]-[2] only. |
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Library Company copy has a MS. stanza inserted following the second stanza on p. [1], and MS. correction in the text on p.
[2].
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War. |
Subject |
Armored vessels. |
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Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865. |
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Stimers, Alban Crocker, 1827-1876. |
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United States. Navy -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry. |
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Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. |
Geographic subject |
Charleston Harbor (S.C.) |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Humor. |
Genre |
Poems -- 1864. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| sm # Am 1864 Halpine 5782.F.16d |
Accession number |
5782.F.16d |