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Private marcher’s final hour and Civil War echoes.
An elderly nameless veteran who stayed in a Chicago tenement is found dead. The poem recalls his life as a common Civil War private who marched with Sherman to the sea. The piece honors his quiet epic and shared brotherhood of the blue and gray in death.
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Georgia
Chicago
Shernan
Seat
Donelson
Chattanooga
Shermain
Atlanta
Sea
Hving
Line of
Blue