Henry Peterson

Henry Peterson (1818–1891) was a Philadelphia poet, editor and novelist; his poem Lyon commemorates the Union general Nathaniel Lyon, killed in Missouri in 1861.

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: Lyon.