Regarding Leland Thankful Smith, by Reverend Efrem Wentworth Brightly

Falling back on his better judgement, the Reverend Efrem Wentworth Brightly collapsed in mid-speech...

It was ne'er the tragedy, so becoming today, where men wept with but stoic fury. Having laid to rest their epidemic fate.

Leland Thankful Smith, 16 May, 1863

Leland Thankful Smith, 16 May, 1863
Narrative prose with found ambrotype, 2014
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