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Ernst Ulmer Limited Edition & Signed Artwork

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Ernst Ulmer, a Kansas City native, painted this interpretation of the song "The Girl I left Behind Me" which depicts the Dragoons at

Ft. Leavenworth, KS

, ca 1840. In this painting a soldier says goodbye to his family before leaving on campaign.

"The Girl I left Behind Me" was a marching song played when troops departed on campaigns that did not permit wives to accompany. The song was sentimental and bittersweet for the women would stayed at post waiting on word from their husbands.

Below are lyrics to one version of the song:

The hours sad I left a maid, a lingering farewell taking

Whose sighs and tears my steps delayed, I thought her heart was breaking

In hurried words her name I blest I breathed the vows that bind me

And to my heart in anguish pressed the girl I left behind me

Then to the east we bore away to win a name in story

And there where dawns the sun of day there dawned our sun of glory

The place in my sight when in the host assigned me

I shared the glory of that fight sweet girl I left behind me

Though many a name our banner bore of former deeds of daring

But they were of the day of yore in which we had no sharing

But now our laurels freshly won with the old one shall entwine me

Singing worthy of our size each son sweet girl I left behind me

The hope of final victory within my bosom burning

Is mingling with sweet thoughts of thee and of my fond returning

But should I n'eer return again still with thy love i'll bind me

Dishonors breath shall never stain the name I leave behind me

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