Frederick West Lander

Frederick West Lander (1821–1862) was a Massachusetts-born civil engineer and explorer of western routes, and a Union general, who died in 1862 during the Civil War.

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: Rhode Island to the South.