Military funerals and canonizations

by Adin Ballou

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Hopedale, Millford MA: ca. 1848 . Broadside clipping likely reprinted from a newspaper column, approx. 18 x 3¼ ; old folds, light spotting, else fine. A criticism of military funerals and eulogies as a propaganda tool for jingoist sentiment. Adin is prompted to write by a military funeral scheduled in Rhode Island for John Rogers Vinton, who had been killed by a canon ball in Vera Cruz in 1847. Let not his afflicted relatives consent to see him exhumed by ambitious propagandists of

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