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Written in ink on letterhead from the Attorney General's Office, where
Whitman was first employed on July 1, 1865, is a transcription
beginning "[I'll trace this
garden oer and oer]." This is Whitman's transcription,
probably from memory, of "Johnny's Gone for a Soldier," a ballad popular during the
American Revolution and based on the an Irish ballad entitled "Shule Agra."
