American journalist and song-writer, born in Baltimore, MD, on the 1st of January 1839; educated at Georgetown College, District of Columbia; traveled for his health a number of years in South America, and on his return began newspaper work on the Sunday Delta in New Orleans. In 1866 he became editor-in-chief of the Constitutionalist at Augusta, GA. But it is as the author of the song Maryland, My Maryland (1861), that he is best known. Some of his other poems are The Sole Sentry; Arlington; There’s Life in the Old Land Yet; and The Battle-cry of the South.
