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title: 'Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Margaret Junkin Preston'
date: 1866-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Poetry'
- 'War and Peace'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
scriptures:
- 'Isaiah 26'
- 'Genesis 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/preston-1866-beechenbrook-a-rhyme-of-the-war
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# Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War

A Civil War–era poem by Margaret J. Preston depicting a family's sorrow, patriotic duty, and women's sacrifices on the homefront as soldiers depart for battle.

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