The Angels of Buena Vista, 1849.

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The Angels of Buena Vista, 1849.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702130507

Verse drama written by John Greenleaf Whittier that commemorate aid given by Mexican women to the wounded from both sides after the battle of Buena Vista.

4 p.; 32 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8013378

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...