Sense Sonnet - Acher

Elmer Ellsworth

I worked for him in Illinois,
And followed him to Washington.
With army troops I did deploy
To keep the rebels on the run.
I was returned a casualty.
In the White House, I laid in State.
He came to bid farewell to me,
To mourn my consequence of fate.
He was but one man who yet must
Carry all the burdens of war.
I might have been his first loss thrust
On him, but he'd bear many more.

I called the President my friend,
And he wept for me at my end.