Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-26 | Page 10 | Author of Famous War Song Expires

Author of o f Famous War Song Expires LOS ANGELES May 26 Fu OT services will be held tomorrow afternoon f for r Major 1 S Samuel mu l H H. H M. M Byers author of ot the famous Civil war song Shermans March to the Sea popularly known m as Marching Marchin Through Georgia The poet soldiers poet soldiers soldier's heart from which the stirring words came sing it as we used to sing it thousand twenty strong while while we were marching through h Georgia was stilled by death late kite Wednesday as Major Byers flyers last surviving member of General Shi Sher mans man's staff stall succumbed to pneumonia at the age of 94 r P