American poetry -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract
Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.
Dates:
Circa 1848-1865
Prison Bill of Fare Poem Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4319
Scope and Contents
One broadside of a poem written by a Union soldier held at the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, on 8 November 1861. The poem describes the food provided and the ways it was prepared at the prison in satirical verse.
Dates:
1861-11-08