Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and lawyer. Alternative signature: S. H. M. Byers. From Pulaski, Pennsylvania. Settled in Oskaloosa, where he studied law and was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1861. Fought for the North in the American Civil War, and began writing poetry as a prisoner of war in South Carolina. Author of several volumes of poetry, including The Happy Isles: And Other Poems (1884), which features Sherman's March to the Sea, his most famous poem that became a wartime anthem for the North. Biographical information: Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. (BGL)