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The Blue and the Gray and a Soldier Poet
By Elmo Scott Watson two men and two poems frame a Memorial Day tale. Theodore O Hara, born 1820 in Kentucky, wrote The Bivouac of the Dead and served as a Civil War officer before burial in Frankfort. Francis Miles Finch gained fame for The Blue and the Gray, helping heal a nation through verse and memory.
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Kane O’hara
Danville
Bluegrass
Kentucky
Theodore O'Hara
Mexico
Frankfort
Major O'Hara
O'Hara
Columbus
Alabama
Commonwealth Cemetery
Ladies’ Aid Society
New York
Miss
Francis Miles Finen
Ithaca
Finch
New York’ Court of Appeals
Cornell” University
America
Union
Francis Miles Finch
Atlantic Monthly