To see the rest of the book, order from: t-a-farmer@cox.net, 1635 Pennsylvania St., El Dorado, KS 67042. Ted Farmer, poet, son of Illinois, and fifty years a loyal resident of Kansas has crafted a story of President Lincoln’s call on April 19, 1861 for volunteers in the Civil War. The Midwest small towns and farms of homestead immigrants, knowing well the meaning of freedom, sent their young sons to defend it. This book with poetical forms fitted to the many images revealed in the lines of verse give the reader a new understanding of the dramatic part the Midwest played in the Union cause.
