Think History is our daily segment from Kentucky Humanites. Today, Bill Goodman tells us about the poem by Boyle County native Theodore O'hara Bivouac of the Dead. Written for the Kentucky men who died in the Mexican War, it became known as one of the most notable elegies in American literature.
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