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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03742.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Letter from the Smith family to Asa Smith |
| Title | A mother to her soldier son [a poem] |
| Date | October 1861 |
| Author | Stedman, Mary C. (fl. 1861) |
| Recipient | Smith, Asa |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Poem sent to Union solider Asa Smith. This poem was written by Mary C. Stedman, a family friend of the Smiths who wrote the poem at the request of Asa Smith's mother. She references the request in GLC03742.02. In that letter she says: "When you left home I asked Mary Stedman to write a piece of poetry for me to send you, and she has in the enclosed lines described my feelings better than I expected." 4 stanzas on a mother contemplating the death of her son in battle. Begins: "Thou art gone, my son, and a shadow falls / O'er the home of thy childhood joy / And at morn and even a prayer goes up / To God, for my absent boy." Written from the town of Newton, but no state was provided. Ink is faded. |
| Subjects | Prisoner of War Civil War Military History Union Forces Woman Author Women's History Poetry Literature and Language Arts Children and Family Religion Battle |
| People | Stedman, Mary C. (fl. 1861) Smith, Asa (fl. 1861-1862) |
| Place written | Newton, Massachusetts |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Son |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater |