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"All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night"
Cover, sheet music, 1863
Song
LanguageEnglish
Published1863
Songwriter(s)Composer: J.H. Hewitt
Lyricist: Ethel Lynn Beers[1]

"All Quiet Along the Potomac," originally titled "The Picket Guard," is an 1861 poem by American writer Ethel Lynn Beers.

  1. ^ Davidson, The Living Writers of the South, p. 200: "After a careful and impartial investigation of all the facts in my reach, I have come to the conclusion that Mrs. Beers and not Mr. Fontaine, wrote the poem in question." [quoting Chandler Harris].

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