Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — Rhyming to Some Purpose. [ARTICLE]

Rhyming to Some Purpose.

In a skirmish during the war of the rebellion, Augustus Penny, a Maine soldier, lost a finger, and afterward wrote a rhyming description of the affair to his wife. In lieu of other evidence, these rhymes' have been accepted at the Pension Office as a proof of Augustus’ right to a pension.