Lopez's expeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851 . y were from leading families of theState. These young men, gallant, impulsive, daring,dauntless, were lovers of liberty for libertys sake. Thefield officers of the regiment were Colonel TheodoreOHara, Lieutenant-Colonel John T. Pickett, and MajorThomas T. Hawkins; and a knightlier or more chivalrictrio never sat at King Arthurs Round Table, or set lancein rest for the deliverance of the oppressed. It is a singular fact that the three ranking officersof the Kentucky Regiment in the Cardenas Expedition—Theodore OHara, John T. Pickett, and Thomas T. Ha
Lopez's expeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851 . y were from leading families of theState. These young men, gallant, impulsive, daring,dauntless, were lovers of liberty for libertys sake. Thefield officers of the regiment were Colonel TheodoreOHara, Lieutenant-Colonel John T. Pickett, and MajorThomas T. Hawkins; and a knightlier or more chivalrictrio never sat at King Arthurs Round Table, or set lancein rest for the deliverance of the oppressed. It is a singular fact that the three ranking officersof the Kentucky Regiment in the Cardenas Expedition—Theodore OHara, John T. Pickett, and Thomas T. Haw-kins—each afterward served, though at different times,on the staff of General John C. Breckinridge in theConfederate army. Theodore OHara, Colonel of the Kentucky Theodore OHara. Regiment, at this time was thirty-one years old. He had already achieved military renown by his gallant and distinguished services as See Appendix for a partial roster of the officers of this regiment, and a state-ment of its losses in the battle of COLONEL THEODORE OHARA. Lopez s Expeditions to Cuba 35 an officer of Kentucky volunteers in the war with , after the close of that war, the State of Kentuckysent to the battlefields of Mexico and gathered up theremains of her sons who had fallen there, and reinterredthem with becoming civil and military ceremony in theState Cemetery at Frankfort, it was Theodore OHarawho, in commemoration of that solemn and sacred oc-casion, composed that wonderful martial elegy—TheBivouac of the Dead1—that has made his name after the close of the Civil War its verses were castupon iron slabs that adorn our national cemeteries, tocommemorate the sleeping heroes of North and South alike. The muffled drums sad roll has beat The soldiers last tattoo;No more on lifes parade shall meet The brave and fallen few;On Fames eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, But Glory guards with solemn round The Bivouac of the Dead. I
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