After J . W. Howe, abolitionist Unitarian, visited a prisoner-of war-camp she was shocked to see Civil War soldiers suffering under deplorable, subhuman conditions. With compassion for Union combatants dying and others with arms and legs amputated she wrote the new words to John Brown's Body Lies a Molding in the Grave. But emotions were biased. She had no gentle feelings for the Confederate soldiers who were also being killed in the same nation–fathers against sons, brothers against brothers.
Dear Ones,
However, she wrote about husbands and lovers returning home after the war was over, as wives "welcomed the war-torn soldiers who had tainted, bloody hands."
With a less gruesome solution than criticizing brave soldiers, the Greek play Lysistrata tells of women refusing to engage in sex until the men stopped fighting and killing during the Pelopopenisian Wars.
Mame
