Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers

Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers (1838–1933) was an Iowa-born Union soldier, later American consul and diplomat, who wrote the song Sherman’s March to the Sea.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: Sherman’s March to the Sea.