. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . « > w t-l J-1. 204 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. LITTLE GIFFEN, OF TENNESSEE. By Frank O. Tichnok. Out of the focal and foremost fire,Out of the hospital walls as dire;Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene(Eighteenth battle and he sixteen!),Specter, such as you seldom see,Little Giffen, of Tennessee! Take him, and welcome! the surgeons said;Little the doctor can help the dead.,,So we took him, and brought him whereThe balm was sweet in the summer air;And we laid him down on a wholesome bed—•Utter Lazarus from heel to head! And we watched the war w
. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . « > w t-l J-1. 204 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. LITTLE GIFFEN, OF TENNESSEE. By Frank O. Tichnok. Out of the focal and foremost fire,Out of the hospital walls as dire;Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene(Eighteenth battle and he sixteen!),Specter, such as you seldom see,Little Giffen, of Tennessee! Take him, and welcome! the surgeons said;Little the doctor can help the dead.,,So we took him, and brought him whereThe balm was sweet in the summer air;And we laid him down on a wholesome bed—•Utter Lazarus from heel to head! And we watched the war with bated breath,Skeleton boy against skeleton of torture, how many such?Weary weeks of the stick and crutch;And still a glint of the steel-blue eyeTold of a spirit that wouldnt die. And didnt, nay, more! in deaths despiteThe crippled skeleton learned to mother, at first, of course; and thenDear captain, inquiring about the answer: ( )f eighty and five,GifTen and 1 are left alive. Word of gloom from the war one day; Johnston p
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