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"Poet" Francis De Haes Janvier Hand Written Poem Dated 1869:
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Up for sale "Poet" Francis De Haes Janvier Hand Written Poem Dated 1869.
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Francis
De Haes Janvier (1817 - 1885) wrote American patriotic poems, best known for
his prose commemorating The Sleeping Sentinel (1863), a dramatic
account of the Union soldier in the 3rd Vermont Infantry, William Scott, who
was sentenced to death for sleeping at his post. Both his death sentence and
his pardon were read while he was facing the firing squad. No wonder the
incident and Janvier's poem were adapted into a black and white movie in 1914,
in which Abraham Lincoln dramatically arrives as the firing squad is taking aim
to deliver his pardon in person. Scott was returned to fight, and died at the
Battle of Lee's Mills. Curiously, Janvier's poem was read anonymously to Mr.
and Mrs. Lincoln at the Executive Mansion and again in the Senate chamber for a
distinguished audience on January 19, 1863, and was quite a sensation. Had he
been credited, Janvier's writing might have been better known. Janvier also
published a collection of poems in 1860, The Skeleton Monk: And Other
Poems.
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