First published by Union prisoners at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas, 1864 ; respectfully dedicated to "The old 72" ; entered according to act of Congress, in the year of 1864, by Wm. H. May, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern district of New York ; reproduced by his comrades, Captain Alfred B. Beers, Major Thomas Boudren, Comrade Frank Miller, under the auspices of Elias Howe, Jr., post, number three, Dept. of Connecticut, G. A. R. ; Decoration Day, 1914