This poignant poem was composed by Alcott's father, Amos Bronson Alcott, who was extraordinarily close to Louisa. He wrote it for her after she served as a nurse during the American Civil War. It was featured

A murder committed in cold blood and these people are attributing it to a ghost! How very idiotic! It was a graveyard all of us saw from outside and some of us the inside too, as the near ones were accompanied