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Civil War Officers

Standing tall, five officers, Wearing clean, Union dress blues, Polished brass buttons– Gleaming in invisible sun, Pose as if pioneering Mat...

z-Civil War Series

A road is a road is a road, Except when it is not. Sometimes a road is an avenue Or a boulevard Or a route Or a street Busy with life rush...

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How long was the blood In Antietam Creek visible? How far down the Potomac Would folks see Death flowing by, Or drifting to shore, As the cr...

z-Civil War Series

It's not my favorite word; I baely spell it or say it correctly, But it's important in this poem. So… Daguerreotype. Louis Daguerr...

z-Civil War Series

On horseback, On pedestal, On stone slab, These sentinels keep watch. Thousands died in this town, On these fields, On these ridges, On thes...

z-Civil War Series

They might've been sweethearts before the war, like so many others who parted shortly after the South fired on a fort near Charleston ci...