Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor in Columbus, Ga., who wrote this poem in memory of Isaac Newton Giffen, a young Confederate soldier from Tennessee who was killed near Atlanta after being nursed back to health by the doctor and his wife following the Battle of Murfreesboro in 1863.

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