Fine poem. Thanks for sharing this.
I didn't know the term GAR--but it doesn't sound far fetched to me. My grandfather, who would have only been about 10 years older than Hecht, spent boyhood afternoons at the Confederate Veterans Home listening to stories about the war. It always amazed me that I was in a sense only at one degree of remove from this point in history. I reckon a lot of the men who fought were mere boys of 15 or 16. So it is certainly possible.
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