Theodore O'Hara

Theodore O'Hara (1820–1867) was a Kentucky soldier and journalist who served in the Mexican War and later as a Confederate officer. His elegy The Bivouac of the Dead honours Kentuckians who fell in the Mexican 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: The Bivouac of the Dead.