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JOHN ESTEN COOKE

THE BAND IN THE PINES (PAGE 247)

For note in regard to Pelham see page 498.

QUESTIONS, i. What does the poet mean by the "band in the pine

wood "? 2. What is the central thought of the poem?

JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON

ASH BY (PAGE 249)

dragoon: Turner Ashby was a dashing brigadier general of cavalry. He was killed in a skirmish near Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1862. Paynim: pagan. Templestowe: the place where occurred the tournament described in the forty-third chapter of "Ivanhoe." Music IN CAMP (PAGE 250) The incident which was the basis of this poem occurred during the winter of 1862-1863, when the Northern and Southern armies were encamped on opposite sides of the Rappahannock River in Virginia.

QUESTIONS, i. What are the details of the incident? 2. What is its

significance?

THE BURIAL OF LATANE (PAGE 253)

% Captain Latane was killed in the Pamunkey expedition of General 1. E. B. Stuart. His brother managed to carry the body to the near by plantation of Mrs. Brockenbrough. The Federal soldiers, however, refused to allow a clergyman to come to conduct the funeral. Accord ingly, accompanied by a few other ladies, a little girl with her apron filled with flowers, and a few faithful slaves who stood near, Mrs. Brock enbrough herself read the burial service and committed the gallant soldier s body to the earth. Victrix et vidua: victorious and bereft.

WILLIAM GORDON McCABE

DREAMING IN THE TRENCHES (PAGE 255)

This poem was written in 1864, while the author was in the trenches before Petersburg.