Name Civil Poems

Mamie Till Mobley demanded and open casket,
to let the world see,
the bloated, beaten body of her baby boy,
who was lynched in Mississippi.

His name was Emmett...

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 Do you realize that your "LIFE IS IMPORTANT": SO BE IT AND SO IT IS!Will you in your understanding realize and try to have...

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...Though in closing, it must be said
they did not remain there for long.
A damned Yankee wed to a Reb?
The locals all declared it wrong.

Like many...

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...Emmet would converse with Sophie,
pretend he was a normal man,
while April and Abner slipped away…
young infatuation was grand.

And after their third time out there
April and...

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His name was Emmet Patterson,
and back in 1863,
he led a cavalry unit
patrolling deep in Tennessee.

The state was firm in Union hands,
Tte Civil War in its...

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the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the...

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When the poets fall silent Man will not only lose his voice but also the notion of Life. ~Suzette Richards

Steeped in the pain of his...

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the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the...

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The field is given a name.
Battles are about where they disappear,
the ones that walk away 
don't know where the hell they are.

There’s a cannon ball...

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Civil War. 
They seek him here they seek him there
he is tall and thin and sports a mustache,
you can call him lanky and his wife...

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It was not really a picnic.
The odor was in the air.
Tomorrow the battle.
Time for a song and prayer.
Standing before his lonely tent.
Cleaning his gun and...

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