This is a poem I was required to memorize in high school American Literature. Achilles Deatheridge is responding to his commanding officer .......
A Poem by Edgar Lee Masters – An Incident in the Civil War ……
Achilles
Deatheridge
“Your name is
Achilles Deatheridge?
How old are you, my
boy?”
“I’m sixteen past and
I went to the war
From Athens,
Illinois.”
“Achilles
Deatheridge,
You have done a deed of
dreadful note.
It comes of his
wearing a battered hat,
And a rusty, wrinkled
coat.”
“Why didn’t you know
how plain he is?
And didn’t you ever
hear,
He goes through the
lines by day or night,
Like a sooty
cannoneer?
”
“You must have been
half dead for sleep,
For the dawn was
growing bright.”
“Well, Captain, I had
stood right there
Since six o’clock
last night.”
“I cocked my gun at
the swish of the grass
And how am I at
fault?
When a dangerous
looking man won’t stop
When a sentry
hollers, ‘Halt?’ ”
“I cried out, ‘halt,’
and he only smiled
And waved his hand
like that.
Why any Johnnie could
wear that coat
And any fellow the
hat.”
“I hollered, ‘halt’
again and he stopped
And lighted a fresh
cigar.
I never noticed his
shoulder badge,
And
I never noticed a star.”
“So you arrested
him? Well, Achilles Deatheridge,
When you hear the
swish of the grass
If it’s General Grant
inspecting the lines
Hereafter let him
pass!”
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