The blue coat

Poem, in 15 verses. At head of text: The blue coat of the soldier. Below title: The following ballad is from the pen of Bishop Burgess, of Maine, and was contributed by him to the book published and sold at the late Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, under the sanction of the State Fair Association of the Women of Maryland. Later collected in his Poems (Hartford, 1868) under title : The old blue coat. Printed area: 26.4 x 9.6 cm. Within border of type ornaments. First line: You ask me, little one, why I bowed. First line of chorus: The blue great-coat, the sky-blue coat.