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"A soldier of the Union mustered out," / Is the inscription on an unknown grave / At Newport News, beside the salt-sea wave, / Nameless and dateless; sentinel or scout / Shot down in skirmish, or disastrous rout / Of battle, when the loud artillery drave / Its iron wedges through the ranks of brave / And doomed battalions, storming the redoubt. / Thou unknown hero sleeping by the sea / In thy forgotten grave! with secret shame / I feel my pulses beat, my forehead burn, / When I remember thou hast given for me / All that thou hadst, thy life, thy very name, / And I can give thee nothing in return.