GCCH-AN003-0003-0049

Ryerson station [Greene] [County] Pa
April 2th 1873

1 On the field of battle mother
all thenight alone I lay
Angels watching over me mother
till the breaking of the
day.

2 I lay thinking of you mother
and the loving ones at hime
till to our dear cottage mother
bay again I seemed to come

3 In the gray of morning mother
Comrades bore me to the town
From my bosome [bosom] tender feelings
washed he blood that trinkled
down

4 He to whome you taught me
mother
on my infant knee to pray
kept my heart from fainting mother
when the [vision] passed away

5 I must soon be going mother
Press me near