Bivouac of the Dead

When many of the fallen Kentuckians were buried in Frankfort Cemetery on July 20, 1847, future congressman and U.S. Vice President John C. Breckinridge spoke for an hour at the event.

However, modern historians have also claimed it was not written until 1851, after Narciso López's failed attempt to remove Cuba from Spanish control.

In 1900 The New York Times devoted an article decrying all the alterations to the poem, and stressed returning to the original version.

[6] Portions of the poem are also displayed on 7 plaques at Finn's Point National Cemetery in Pennsville, New Jersey, where a significant number of Confederate Soldiers who died in captivity during the American Civil War are buried.

[7] During the late 1920s and 1930s, instances of lines from the poem on markers throughout national cemeteries were removed, leaving only fourteen with "Bivouac of the Dead" verses on tablets.

He is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Plot 40, Row E, Grave 1, his gravestone quoting "On Fame's eternal camping-ground / Their silent tents are spread".