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 AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.

WAS with Grant"—the stranger said;

Said the farmer: "Say no more,

But rest thee here at my cottage porch,

For thy feet are weary and sore."

"I was with Grant"—the stranger said;

Said the farmer: "Nay, no more—

I prithee sit at my frugal board,

And eat of my humble store.

"How fares my boy—my soldier boy,

Of the old Ninth Army Corps?—

I warrant he bore him gallantly

In the smoke and the battle's roar!"