George Parsons Lathrop

George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) was an American poet, novelist and editor, and the son-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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: Keenan’s Charge.