An' he whispered, as he tried to rise: 'God

'll take care o' you.'

'An officer wrote an' tol' us how the boy

had been hurt in the fight,

But he said the doctors reckoned they

could bring him around all right,

An' then we heard from a neighbor, dis-

abled at Malvern Hill,

That he thought in the course of a week

or so he'd be cornin' home with Bill.