Poem fragment [manuscript],fn.d.

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Poem fragment [manuscript],fn.d.

Poem describes the action of a slave who climbed the spire of St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C., to douse a fire started during the battle for Ft. Sumter, and was given his freedom as a reward. The poem is fastened in a paper cover with two magazine illustrations of St. Michael's.

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University of Virginia. Library

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