The Biglow papers
James Russell Lowell (Author)
"Two series of satirical verses in Yankee dialect by Lowell, the first written in opposition to the Mexican War and the second in support of the North during the Civil War. Both are purportedly written by the young New England farmer Hosea Biglow, and edited with a complicated pseudo-critical apparatus by Homer Wilbur. [Several] represent versified epistles from Hosea's friend Birdofredom Sawin, "Private in the Massachusetts Regiment," who swallows the propaganda of "manifest destiny" but comes to disappointment and disillusion"--Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Print Book, English, 1865
S.O. Beeton, London, 1865