Maria La Conte

Maria La Conte is named as the author of the Civil War poem Somebody’s Darling in Eggleston’s anthology; her dates are not given there.

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: Somebody’s Darling.