Appomattox Poems - Poems about Appomattox

...Memorial Day – 2023... origin of holiday Strong and brave men and women gave their level best crème de la crème strongest and bravest leaving grieving significant others with emotional agony......Read the rest...

...Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023 will signal 158 years since Appomattox plus what would have been ninety sixth birth of......Read the rest...

...Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865... Petersen House, Washington, D.C. I admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, and the life and death of the sixteenth president in particular bet......Read the rest...

...“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take, April arrived like a careless mistake.” From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106 ......Read the rest...

...Memorial Day – 2020... since time immemorial crème de la crème strongest and bravest forsook their lives eternal peace they rest honored and revered succumbed mortal test. (now pardon ma faux......Read the rest...

...Officially called Decoration Day proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan first observed on 30 May 1868 Waterloo N.Y. officially declared the birthplace by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1......Read the rest...

...Carry me to my home Virginia Headed south through Arlington We can stop off in Manassas On our way to Lovingston Take me back to the Peaks of Otter Let's return to Mabry Mill We can drive the......Read the rest...

...Florence hydra logical might - tee pseudo tentacles, monstrous sight didst bring watery plight, deluge rivaling Noah - bliss oblige epic flood of biblical proportions, downright terri......Read the rest...

...blowing balloons signaling 158 years since Appomattox (Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life) Armageddon would be morbidly amazing, concluding (reign of *****Sapiens) ......Read the rest...

...Petersen House, Washington, D.C. (i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, and the life and death of the sixteenth president in particular). between a hard spot of whiskey ......Read the rest...

...We Started To Go, Right After, "Hello, How Have You Been?" A Most Beautiful Start, Your Smiling Heart's, Winning Grin! Appomattox, Yorktown, Victories Sweet. Etched Onto The Sounds Of V......Read the rest...

...Sit for Short Spell Do I need to be in lead or left behind Or end up lost where no one can find Perhaps exactly where I want to be Half way between you and also me. Middle of roader really c......Read the rest...

...The face at the window, the feeling of dread as I tread to the door, the mysterious welcome, a touch on my shoulder, a cough down the hall, a shadowy figure in Civil War dress looking oddly like......Read the rest...

...It rests 'neath spreading sycamores on the small-town square, A venerable old relic of the Civil War affair. The sun casts a fleeting glint as it rises anew each dawn, On the brass barrel of the c......Read the rest...

...Old Traveler steps out mighty proud As we watch him paw and prance. His rider, sitting poker straight, Casts not a sideward glance. In uniform immaculate A......Read the rest...