The body of this “unknown” soldier was exhumed by the government a few months later and brought back to the United States for burial. Upon its arrival the following pathetic poem appeared in “Leslie’s Weekly”;
JUST AN “UNKNOWN”
After the fight was over,
They found him stark and dead,
Where all the bamboo thicket
Was splashed and stained and red.
No name was missed at roll call,
Not one among them knew
The slender, boyish figure
Arrayed in army blue.