Fifes and Drums Vigilantes 1917 The Vigilantes

The Vigilantes was a twentieth-century American publishing

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. Their pamphlets and newspapers were distributed with the intention of inspiring patriotism and

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involvement in

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. The membership was largely composed of men, who dominated its leadership, though much of the content was produced by women and appeared pseudonymously as the work of "the Vigilantes". A contemporary review noted the "breathless cries of song wrung mostly from the hearts of our women." The preface to a poetry anthology, published as Vigilantes Books: ''Fifes And Drums: A Collection of Poems of America at War'', gave the following remarks on the authors' works:

These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by those who have banded themselves together under the name of The Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war....From the foreword of '' s:Fifes and Drums'' (1917).

Notable people

Anne Virginia Culbertson Anne Virginia Culbertson (November 16, 1857 – December 7, 1918) was an American writer, known chiefly as the author of dialect poems, and as a public reader of her own productions. Culbertson attempted numerous dialects; however, her work was no ...

(1864-1918), author, poet

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vigilantes Literary circles Patriotic societies Politics of World War I 20th-century American poets War poetry