1. The poem was written by Abraham Lincoln's son Willie.
2. It was about the death of Senator/Colonel Edward Baker at the Battle of Ball's Bluff.
3. I think the third part of the question meant to ask "Who put it in the newspaper?" On the basis of that assumption, my answer is the editor of the Washington National Republican newspaper.
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