Francis Orrery Ticknor. See “Little Giffen.”
Petersburg, the scene of this incident, a city which witnessed some of
the fiercest fighting of the Civil War, is situated upon the southern
bank of the Appomattox River, about twenty miles south of Richmond.
The Gracie of the poem (Archibald,) was a Confederate brigadier-general
who served with distinction at Knoxville and Chickamauga.
=Stanza 3.= LEE. See “Barbara Frietchie.”