New York Folklore Quarterly: Volume XVII, No. 2

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Vol. XVII, No. 2, Summer, 1961

CONTENTS

Editor’s Page	Charles L. Wallis	82
CIVIL WAR LORE
The Elmira Prison Camp	Robert Anderson	83
Memories of the Fighting Fourteenth	Paul Bailey	87
Three Civil War Songs	Frank Warner	90
Oswego’s Abolitionists and Their Tunnels	Charles McCool Snyder	95
The Underground in Oswego	Mildred R. Larson	104
Civil War Frogman	Dorothy Godfrey Wayman	109
The Lore of the Monitor	Henry Noble McCracken	116
Women on the Home Front	Julia Hull Winner	123
A Civil War Argument	Moritz A. Jagendorf	127
Old Sarsparilla	Mayte E. Sutton	129
A Quaker Funeral at Saratoga at Saratoga Springs	Maurice A. Mook	131
Abbot Parker’s Picture of the Crucifixion	James J. Flynn and Charles A. Huguenin	138
Ballon Ascension in Oswego	Charles F. Wells	148
DEPARTMENTS
Upstate, Downstate	B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell	151
Editor’s Bookshelf		158
Contributors		160

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