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The soldier was Louis Mitchell of Co st Minn Vols	A
killed in a skirmish near Ball's Bluff October	B
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We've had a brush the Captain said	C
And Rebel blood we've spilled	D
We came off victors with the loss	A
Of only a private killed	D
Ah said the orderly it was hot	E
Then he breathed a heavy breath	F
Poor fellow he was badly shot	E
Then bayoneted to death	F
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And now was hushed the martial din	G
The saucy foe had fled	C
They brought the private's body in	G
I went to see the dead	C
For I could not think our Rebel foes	A
So valiant in the van	H
So boastful of their chivalry	I
Could kill a wounded man	H
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A musket ball had pierced his thigh	J
A frightful crushing wound	K
And then with savage bayonets	A
They pinned him to the ground	K
One deadly thrust drove through the heart	L
Another through the head	C
Three times they stabbed his pulseless breast	M
When he lay cold and dead	C
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His hair was matted with his gore	N
His hands were clinched with might	O
As if he still his musket bore	N
So firmly in the fight	O
He had grasped the foemen's bayonets	A
Their murderous thrusts to fend	P
They raised the coat cape from his face	A
And lo it was my friend	P
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Think what a shudder chilled my heart	L
'Twas but the day before	N
We laughed together merrily	I
As we talked of days of yore	N
How happy we shall be he said	C
When the war is o'er and when	Q
With victory's song and victory's tread	C
We all march home again	Q
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Ah little he dreamed that soldier brave	R
So near his journey's goal	S
How soon a heavenly messenger	B
Would claim his Christian soul	S
But he fell like a hero fighting	T
And hearts with grief are filled	D
And honor is his tho' the Captain says	A
Only a private killed	D
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I knew him well he was my friend	P
He loved our land and laws	A
And he fell a blessed martyr	B
To our Country's holy cause	A
And I know a cottage in the West	M
Where eyes with tears are filled	D
As they read the careless telegram	U
Only a private killed	D
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Comrades bury him under the oak	V
Wrapped in his army blue	W
He is done with the battle's din and smoke	V
With drill and the proud review	W
And the time will come ere long perchance	A
When our blood will thus be spilled	D
And what care we if the Captain say	A
Only a private killed	D
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For the glorious Old Flag beckons	A
We have pledged her heart and hand	X
And we'll brave even death to rescue	W
Our dear old Fatherland	X
We ask not praise nor honors	A
Then as each grave is filled	D
What care we if the Captain say	A
Only a private killed	D

Hanford Lennox Gordon

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