The Vault at Pfaff's

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

The Sleeper at His Post

Anonymous. "The Sleeper at His Post." Vanity Fair, December 7, 1861, 249.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
poetry
Abstract

This poem digs at both the sleeping soldier who is responsible for those comrades asleep. A second entreaty in its many lines is also to the people who can volunteer for the Union lacks necessary medical personnel.