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The Blue and Gray in their Bivouac of the Dead
The piece recounts Theodore O Hara and his poem The Bivouac of the Dead, noting Memorial Day origins in Kentucky and Georgia. It covers O Hara's Civil War service, burial in Frankfort, and the later memorial ode The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch, whose popularity helped shape national remembrance.
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Seme
Kane O'Hare
Danville
Bluegrass
Kentucky
Theodore O'Hara
Mexico
Wrankfort
O'Hara
O’hara
Columbus
Alabama
Commonwealth Cemetery
Frankfort
Ladies’ Air Society
Tila
New York
I Cpl
Francis Miles Finch
Atlantic Monthly
Tn Inter
Willeh
New York Court of Appeala
Cornell University
Ita Law School