This poem appeared in the Burlington Sentinel. along with the following notation:

A soldier of the Army of the Potomac was dying of fever, and being informed by the chaplain that he had but a few hours to live, he raised his homesick eyes with a world of tenderness in their shadowy depths, to the chaplain's face, asking sadly: "And never see my little boy again?"

Thanks to Joel Craig of Joel Craig's Bivouac for contributing still more fruits of his tirelss newspaper research.

"Shall I See My Boy Again"