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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1

by Robert Henry Newell

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  1. 1Letter I — Showing How Our Correspondent Came Into the World: With…
  2. 2Letter II — Showing How the Writer Increased in Years and Indiscret…
  3. 3Letter III — Our Correspondent Becomes Literary, and Fathoms Certai…
  4. 4Letter IV — Describing the South in Twelve Lines, Defining the Citi…
  5. 5Letter V — Concerning the Great Crowd at the Capital, Owing to the…
  6. 6Letter VI — Introducing the Mackerel Brigade, Dilating on Havelocks…
  7. 7Letter VII — Recording the First Sanguinary Exploit of the Mackerel…
  8. 8Letter VIII — The Rejected “National Hymns”
  9. 9Letter IX — In Which Our Correspondent Temporarily Digresses From W…
  10. 10Letter X — Making Conservative Mention of the Battle of Bull Run an…
  11. 11Letter XI — Giving an Effect of the New Bugle Drill in the Mackerel…
  12. 12Letter XII — Giving an Abstract of a Great Orator’s Flagging Speech…
  13. 13Letter XIII — Submitting Various Rumors Concerning the Condition of…
  14. 14Letter XIV — Showing How Our Correspondent Made a Speech of Vague C…
  15. 15Letter XV — Wherein Will Be Found the Particulars of a Visit to a S…
  16. 16Letter XVI — Introducing the Gothic Steed, Pegasus, and the Remarka…
  17. 17Letter XVII — Noting a New Victory of the Mackerel Brigade in Virgi…
  18. 18Letter XVIII — Describing the Terrible Death and Mysterious Disappe…
  19. 19Letter XIX — Noticing the Arrival of a Solid Boston Man With an Unp…
  20. 20Letter XX — Concerning a Significant British Outrage, and the Captu…
  21. 21Letter XXI — Describing Captain Villiam Brown’s Great Expedition to…
  22. 22Letter XXII — Treating of Villiam’s Occupation of Accomac, and His…
  23. 23Letter XXIII — Concerning British Neutrality and Its Cosmopolitan E…
  24. 24Letter XXIV — Narrating the Mackerel Brigade’s Manner of Celebratin…
  25. 25Letter XXV — Presenting the Chaplain’s New Year Poem, and Reporting…
  26. 26Letter XXVI — Giving the Particulars of a False Alarm, and a Biogra…
  27. 27Letter XXVII — Touching Incidentally Upon the Character of Army Foo…
  28. 28Letter XXVIII — Concerning the Continued Inactivity of the Potomac…
  29. 29Letter XXIX — Introducing a Veritable “Mudsill,” Illustrating Yanke…
  30. 30Letter XXX — Description of the Gorgeous Fête at the White House, I…
  31. 31Letter XXXI — Treating of the Great Military Anaconda, and the Mode…
  32. 32Letter XXXII — Commencing With a Burst of Exultation Over National…
  33. 33Letter XXXIII — Exemplifying the Terrible Domestic Effects of Milit…
  34. 34Letter XXXIV — Beginning With a Lamentation, but Changing Materiall…
  35. 35Letter XXXV — Giving Practical Illustration of Modern Patriotism, a…
  36. 36Letter XXXVI — Concerning the Weaknesses of Great Men, the Curious…
  37. 37Letter XXXVII — Describing the Remarkable Strategical Movement of t…
  38. 38Letter XXXVIII — Introducing the Veritable “Hymn of the Contrabands…
  39. 39Letter XXXIX — Showing How a Rebel Was Reduced, and Converted to “R…
  40. 40Letter XL — Rendering Tribute of Admiration to the Women of America…
  41. 41Letter XLI — Citing a Notable Case of Volunteer Surgery, and Giving…
  42. 42Letter XLII — Revealing a New Blockading Idea, Introducing a Geomet…
  43. 43Letter XLIII — Concerning Martial Literature: Introducing a Didacti…
  44. 44Letter XLIV — Showing How the Great Battle of Paris Was Fought and…
  45. 45Letter XLV — Exemplifying the Inconsistency of the Conservative Ele…
  46. 46Letter XLVI — Wherein Is Shown How the General of the Mackerel Brig…
  47. 47Letter XLVII — Introducing a Poem Based Upon an Idea That Is in Vio…
  48. 48Letter XLVIII — Treating Chiefly of a Terrible Panic Which Broke Ou…
  49. 49Letter XLIX — Noting the Architectural Effects of the Gothic Steed,…
  50. 50Letter L — Remarking Upon a Peculiarity of Virginia, and Describing…
  51. 51Letter LI — Giving Due Prominence Once More to the Conservative Ele…
  52. 52Letter LII — Describing, Among Other Things, a Speciality of Congre…

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