In the City of the Foe—
His cousins and his countrymen
Who see him listless go.
A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia.[[19]]
[19] Shortly prior to the evacuation of Petersburg, the enemy, with a view to ultimate repossession, interred some of his heavy guns in the same field with his dead, and with every circumstance calculated to deceive. Subsequently the negroes exposed the stratagem.
Head-board and foot-board duly placed—
Grassed in the mound between;
Daniel Drouth is the slumberer’s name—
Long may his grave be green!
Quick was his way—a flash and a blow,