Quotation from a poem, 1895 May 22.

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Quotation from a poem, 1895 May 22.

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Quotation begins "Our campfires shone bright on the mountains ..."

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Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall), 1838-1933

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Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers was born in Pennsylvania in 1838 and moved to Burlington, Iowa in 1851. Byers had studied law before enlisting as a First Corporal in Company B of the Fifth Iowa Infantry in 1861. By July 1862 he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant, he became the regimental adjutant in April 1863, and later that year he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chattanooga with eighty other members of his regiment. Byers spent the next sixteen months in five different Confederate priso...