All Quiet Along the Potomac

"All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night"
Cover, sheet music, 1863
Song
LanguageEnglish
Published1863
SongwritersComposer: J.H. Hewitt
Lyricist: Ethel Lynn Beers

"All Quiet Along the Potomac," originally titled "The Picket Guard," is an 1861 poem by American writer Ethel Lynn Beers. Set somewhere along the titular Potomac River during the American Civil War, the poem follows a lone picket longing for home while on nighttime guard duty before he is shot by an unseen enemy.

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