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"Wake Snakes!"

Anonymous. ""Wake Snakes!"." Vanity Fair. 24 Aug. 1861: 96.
Type: 
magazine
Genre: 
commentary
Abstract: 

A Southern paper speaks of the idea of loading shells with snakes and launching them into Fort Pickens. The Vanity Fair is tickled by the idea: "Snakes on the half-shell," it laughs.