The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy / A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union

by Annie Randall White

“Fame Hath Crowned with Laurel the Swords of Grant and Lee.”

[Original]

ETHINKS to-night I catch a gleam of steel among the pines,

And yonder by the lilied stream repose the foemen's lines;

The ghostly guards who pace the ground a moment stop to see

If all is safe and still around the tents of Grant and Lee.

'Tis but a dream; no armies camp where once their bay'nets

shone;

And Hesper's calm and lovely lamp shines on the dead alone;