Poem by Edgar Lee Masters

Lydia Puckett

Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war
The day before Curl Trenary
Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett
For stealing hogs.
But that’s not the reason he turned a soldier.
He caught me running with Lucius Atherton.
We quarreled and I told him never again
To cross my path.
Then he stole the hogs and went to the war --
Back of every soldier is a woman.

1. Jacob Goodpasture
2. Mrs. Sibley
3. Mrs. Charles Bliss
4. Elizabeth Childers
5. Abel Melveny

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