...he South. Boker in the spring of 1863 greeted the news of the Federal advance with his ; and Chancellorsville, which called forth so many Confederate poems on the death of Stonewall Jackson, led George Parsons Lathrop to write his dashing ballad, . Perhaps it was again because poets sing best in defeat that no Union poem on Gettysburg quite equals Will Henry Thompson's later (1888). Stedman, however, made a ri...