Another thought we forward cast to that not distant day, When left of all our gallant band will be one veteran gray, And here's to him who meets alone--wherever he may be, The last, the lone survivor of the grand old Tennessee.
Dodge anticipates the eventual loneliness of the last surviving veteran from their group.
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