---
title: 'The Color-Bearer'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Margaret Junkin Preston'
date: 1867-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Poetry'
- 'Education'
- 'Orations and Addresses'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'John 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/preston-1867-the-color-bearer
---

# The Color-Bearer

1867 collection of standard lectures, prose and poetry for declamation in schools and colleges, featuring Civil War poems (e.g. "The Color-Bearer") and Milton's creation piece.

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