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B[ALLOU], A[DIN]. Military Funerals and Canonizations. [Caption title.] Broadside, 3.25" x 18". [Hopedale, Milford, Mass.]: Ca. 1848. 1st ed. . $200.00
Apparently a reprint from a newspaper column. "War is a foul and bloody craft." A vehement criticism of military funerals and eulogies, with specific reference to a Major Vinton of Providence, R.I., who died at Vera Cruz. "Let not his afflicted relatives consent to see him exhumed by ambitious propagandists of war for the dark purpose of seducing the youth of our land to immolate themselves on the bloody altar of Mars."