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— or its ghost! “And the whole field lay before me, all deserted far and wide-- There was where they fell on Prentiss — there McClernand met the tide , There was where stern Sherman rallied, and where Hurlbut's heroes died-- Lower down, where Wallace charged them, and kept charging till he died! “There was where Lew Wallace showed them he was of the cannie kin-- There was where old Nelson thundered and where Rousseau waded in-- There McCook sent them to breakfast, and we all began to win--Lew Wallace showed them he was of the cannie kin-- There was where old Nelson thundered and where Rousseau waded in-- There McCook sent them to breakfast, and we all began to win-- There was where the grape-shot took me just as we began to win. “Now a shroud of snow and silence over every thing was spread; And but for this old, blue mantle, and the old hat on my head, I should not have even doubted, to this moment, I was dead; For my footsteps were as silent as the snow upon the dead! “Death and silence! Death and silence! starry silence overheard! And behold a mighty tower, as if builded to the dead, To the heaven of the heavens lifted up its mighty head! Til