Library jewel #3: Poem about former Territorial Gov. Stevens
Besides being Washington Territory’s first governor and a major factor in the creation of the Territorial Library in 1853, Isaac Stevens also was a brigadier general in the Civil War until he was shot and killed at the Battle of Chantilly in northern Virginia on Sept. 1, 1862. This poem about Stevens following his death is the third and final Library jewel for September. The poem was found in a Bible that was once owned by Hazard Stevens, son of…