Edna Dean Proctor

Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923), born in Henniker, New Hampshire, was an American poet and traveller whose patriotic verse was widely printed during and after 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: The Stripes and the Stars.