The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Forced Recruit at Solferino[From the Cornhill Magazine]

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "A Forced Recruit at Solferino[From the Cornhill Magazine]." New-York Saturday Press, October 27, 1860, 3.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Poem about a young boy who died in battle and fought because he was forced into the military. This boy deserves more pity than the men who fight and die.