Michael O’Connor

Michael O’Connor was a sergeant in the 140th regiment of New York volunteers; Eggleston notes that he died at the age of 25 at Potomac Station, Virginia, on 28 December 1862.

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: Réveille.