Guy Humphrey McMaster

Guy Humphrey McMaster (1829–1887) was a New York lawyer and poet, remembered chiefly for the song Carmen Bellicosum, a stirring picture of the Revolution’s ragged continental soldiers.

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: Carmen Bellicosum.