page_title: Kate Brownlee Sherwood
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Kate Brownlee Sherwood / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: "Camp-Fire, Memorial-Day, and Other Poems" by Kate Brownlee Sherwood
context_page_description: Kate Brownlee Sherwood was an American poet, journalist, and translator from Ohio, also known as a story writer, philanthropist, patron of art and literature.
  After marriage, she at once entered into her husband's journalistic work, where she learned to set type, to read proof, and all the details pertaining to the work so that she might better aid him. She contributed to various magazines and periodicals, and since 1883, was an editor of the Woman's Department of the National Tribune at Washington City, a paper devoted to the interest of the soldiers. She is best known as the author of army lyrics and poems written for the celebration of military occasions. She was the author of: Camp-Fire and Memorial Poems; Dreams of the Ages; a Poem of Columbia; The Memorial of the Flowers, and Guarding the Flags. Her memorial poem, Albert Sidney Johnston, was written by Sherwood at the invitation of the Executive Committee for the Unveiling Ceremonies of the General Albert Sidney Johnston Equestrian Statue, held under the auspices of the Army of the Tennessee Louisiana Division at New Orleans. Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird and Alice Williams Brotherton were contemporary poets from Ohio.
caption: "Camp-Fire, Memorial-Day, and Other Poems"
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