During the U.S. Civil War, American humorist Robert Henry Newell wrote a series of satirical articles using the pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr, commenting on the war and contemporary society. His articles appeared weekly in the New York Sunday Mercury, where he was the literary editor until 1862, and were published in a series of books. “The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2” is the second of the books.
