
Civil War Poetry
Here are some Civil War Era poems and song lyrics
that I've collected over the years.
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I will be adding more poems as time permits.
Enjoy! (Last Revision 4-10-08)
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An Appeal To The Country
Our Christmas Hymn
The Flag Of Our Union
Christmas 1864
The House That Jeff Built
Christmas, South, 1866
A Smoking His Cigar
Christmas Carol, For 1862
Achilles Deatheridge
Christmas Eve

Visit To Antietam
Under the Washington Elm
Wearing The Gray
The Soldier's Christmas Eve
Over The River
When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Letter Address
Sheridan At Cedar Creek
There's Life in the Old Land Yet
To Canaan
The High Tide At Gettysburg
A Rainy Day in Camp

Hurrah For The Light Artillery
The Voice of The North
Decking Southern Soldiers' Graves
Enlisted
The Homespun Dress
The Last Man At Beaufort
Albert Sidney Johnston
Christmas Bells

Christmas Night Of '62
Rebels

Gettysburg
Call All! Call All!
The Dying Comrade
Epitaph (1)
All Quiet Along The Potomac
Confederate Memorial Day
The Dead Drummer Boy
Lee To The Rear
Skedaddle
Death Of Stonewall Jackson
Grant The Hero Of The War
The Daughters Of The Confederacy
Battle Worn Banners
Jim O'Mera's Ride
Soldiers' Aid Societies
The Conquered Banner
Marching Through Georgia
Answer To The Conquered Banner
On The Shores Of Tennessee

Shiloh
Around The Last Campfire
A Second Review Of The Grand Army
C. S. A.
Always Stand On The Union Side
The Earl Of Derby To General Lee
A Cry From Andersonville Prison
My Suit Of Confederate Gray
John Burns Of Gettysburg
A Soldier Of Robert E. Lee
He Died At His Post
Defeated Valor
Keenan's Charge
Ready for something a little different?
Read some of the poems and definitions of Civil War veteran
Ambrose Bierce
in his darkly humorous 1906 publication
"The Devil's Dictionary"
The Battle Cry Of Freedom (Confederate)
The Battle Cry Of Freedom (Union)
Before Richmond
Barbara Frietchie
Our Dixie

The Unknown Dead
That's What's The Matter
Confederate Daughters
The Sleeping Sentinel
Cleburne's Banner
Lincoln And Liberty

Meeting Of The Pickets
The Sword Of Robert Lee
Sheridan's Ride
General Lee And Traveller
Across The Lines
To The Sons And Daughters
Of The Veterans
Union Dixie

The Yank And The Reb
Our Battle Flag
A Moment In Time
Dixie's Land
The Dying Words Of Stonewall Jackson
Massachusetts To Virginia
The Confederate Note
Battle-hymn of the Republic
Virginia's Dead
The Drummer Boy of Marblehead
One Of Longstreet's Men

Ode For Decoration Day
Old Heart Of Oak
Santa Claus
First Arkansas Marching Song
Christmas Eve, South, 1865
Jeff In Petticoats
A Georgia Volunteer
Killed At The Ford
A Soldier's Dream
Shiloh
Charleston
Laus Deo
My Little Volunteer
The Rapidan
Only A Private
The Minstrel Boy
A Monument To Lee
Missing
A Soldier In Gray
In Old Tennessee
Ashes Of Glory
Grafted Into The Army
Cleburne
No More Words!
Goober Peas
The Martyr
It Is My Country's Call
Starved In Prison
Good Ol' Rebel Soldier
The Grant Pill
An Incident Of Battle
Robert Gould Shaw
Ode At Magnolia Cemetery

The Pride Of Battery B
When Sherman Marched
Down To The Sea
Jackson's Foot-Cavalry
Send Them Home Tenderly
Daughters Of The Confederacy
The Women Who Went to the Field
Arlington Inscription
General B.F. Butler
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
John Brown's Body
At Rest - Jefferson Davis
The Major And His Men
The Florida's Cruise
Foote: A Lay Of Island No.10
Pickens Acrostic
Let Us Alone
Rebel Gunpowder
We'll Let Them Alone
John Brown's Entrance Into Hell
The Battle Autumn Of 1862
Epitaph (2)
An Elegy - L-E-G On My Leg
Appomattox
The Flag Of Fort Sumter
A Christmas Rhyme
John Brown
Gone Forward
The Little Drummer
Beauregard's Appeal
Beauregard's Bells
The Alabama
Captain Semmes, C. S. A. N.
Texas War Song
Farewell Father, Friend And Guardian
Jefferson Davis

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