Swordplay?
This photograph from April 1863 is titled “Falmouth, Virginia. A muss at headquarters, Army of the Potomac”
En garde!
Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Locksley Hall” “narrates the emotions of a weary soldier come to his childhood home” and contains the following lines:
In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast
In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove
In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
But in the spring, as dirt roads start drying out, a general’s fancy turns to thoughts of battle.
