Kate Putnam Osgood

Kate Putnam Osgood (1841–1910) was an American poet whose Driving Home the Cows became a favourite of 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: Driving Home the Cows.