The blue coat

By Bishop Burgess, of Maine. Poem, in fifteen verses. Name of author at head of text. At end of text: Published by A.D.F. Randolph, No. 770, Broadway, New-York. Later collected in his Poems (Hartford, 1868) under title: The old blue coat. Printed area: 22.8 x 15.2 cm. Printed in two columns separated by a vertical line, within double line border. Above author's name, ills. of a soldier wearing a greatcoat and a contemporary national flag. First line: You asked me, little one, why I bowed. First line of chorus: The blue great-coat, the sky-blue coat.