Excerpt from My Bunkie and Other Ballads The latter part of the volume consists of verses on various subjects, with no especial regard to sequence. I am indebted to the following publications for permission to reprint these things of mine; many of which have, from time to time, appeared in them Book News, Harper's Weekly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Evening Bulletin (philadelphia), The Evening Tele graph (philadelphia) and The Pittsburg Post. It would seem, in conclusion, to be no more than appropriate to append here an obituary notice, the most concise and correct one of several appearing in Philadelphia newspapers at the time of the death of my father, to whom this book is dedicated: George L. Garrett of Germantown, died on Thursday in his seventieth year at Atlantic City. He was born in 1838, the son of George H. And Margaret Hall Garrett, and traced his ancestry back to the early history of Pennsylvania, when in 1696 Thomas Garrett received a grant of land along the Brandywine river from Letitia Penn, wife of William Penn. In George L. Garrett's grandfather's time the family moved to South Washington Square, and in his father's time to Germantown. Mr. Garrett was a member of the Loyal Legion. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1861 in Anderson's Troop. Later serving as an officer in the Fourth Missouri Cavalry. After serving for almost three years he was cap tured by the Confederates and placed in Libby Prison, where i he remained nine months. At the close of the war he was asked to serve on the Western frontier as major, having been advanced from second lieutenant to first lieutenant for bravery. Upon declining to enter the regular service he was honorably discharged with the office of brevet captain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.