During the war of the
Rebellion Brook Farm had been used as a convalescent camp, and many of
the sick and wounded were mustered out there by the last general orders
which we must all obey. Among the numberless soldiers' graves it was
impossible to identify the two mounds for which we were looking.
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As noted, the Phalanx had several of its members in the lecture field to
aid in forwarding the socialist movement. The cost of this propaganda
and the publication of _the Harbinger_, the Socialistic organ, must
have been a tax on the slender resources of the community, but to make
sacrifices for the great cause was quite in accordance with the spirit
of Brook Farm, and, so far as I know the burden was cheerfully borne.
The Rev. John Allen was one of those engaged in this educational work
and much of his time was given to it. He was affectionately devoted to
his motherless child, a charming little girl of perhaps four years, and
when the conditions favored he took her with him on his lecturing tours.
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