American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Gents.

I came across this section of Poetry recently, - a quotation from Walt Whitman's poem: " Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night ".

Does anyone know if He speaks of the Civil War and if it was his own personal experience or one He had heard 2nd Hand?

Sad and so very True in a few cases I have read of over the Years.[:(]

Pat.

<b><font color="orange">Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn
appear’d,
My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop’d well his form,
Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and
Carefully under feet,
And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his
Grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field
Dim,
Vigil for boy of responding kisses, ( never again on earth
Responding,)
Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day
brighten’d,
I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his
Blanket,
And buried him where he fell.</font id="orange"></b>

Patrick G.M.Carroll,
Lieutenant General.
Carroll's Corps,(II)
"Spartan Southrons"
Army of Georgia.
C.S.A.Cabinet Secretary

" When My Country takes it's rightful place, amongst the Nations of the World, then and only then, let My Epitaph be written. "

Some info:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/vigil.htm

AFAIK, Walt Whitman was in Washington DC for most of the war and assisted caring for the wounded in various hospitals.

Here is a good bio link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
General, Commanding, Army of Ohio

ACWGC Cabinet member
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