The skull of a gallant Massachusetts soldier has been converted into the drinking-cup of a Georgia colonel, that he may, far away among his slaves, renew the festive barbarism of another age under the name of “The Feast of Skulls.
He highlights the grotesque use of a soldier's skull as a drinking cup, symbolizing barbarism.
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