One of the most quoted poets in American history is also one of the least known. Key lines from Theodore O'Hara's The Bivouac of the Dead can be found in cemeteries and on monuments throughout the country, especially the South, and as far away as Europe. During the 1880s, the elegy became the official verse chosen by the U.S. government to commemorate the Civil War dead. Yet O'Hara's name has never appeared with those inscriptions and until now little has been known about his life. With this book, Nathaniel Hughes and Thomas Ware offer the first complete biography of O'Hara and also analyze...