Johnny Reb Poems - Poems about Johnny Reb

...CALIFORNIA GOLD AND JOHNNY REB PART 2 So now we’ve made it we’re back in Tennessee Don’t have to run anymore I’m in the land of the free Heard the president was sending boys called the yanks To ......Read the rest...

...california gold and Johnny reb I left my home in Tennessee to find some California gold Gonna strike it rich and find the mother lode After six long months on a dusty and lonesome trail After all......Read the rest...

...her eyes watching me, but when I'd turn, she wouldn't be there. I wrote it off as my imagination, or some misguided hopes ... but now, thinking back, I'm sure it was her ... checking up on her "Johnny Reb", her lost soldier ... her One and True. Something ELSE that I started to notice after she left, there were OTHERS ... others like her, and quite a few, from what I could tell. I al......Read the rest...

...SHE was my wife, once ... long ago, so very long ago ... we met on the showboat, up-river, almost fifty years back now ... I was a young officer for the Confederacy, working for the Yanks afte......Read the rest...

...Private Joshua Bronson wrote this letter by the camp fire where he lay, Nigh a place called Gettysburg where a great battle loomed next day. He'd bid farewell to Jenny and his children at their hum......Read the rest...

...Republicans Are Really a Rip (Rest In Peace) Took a jab at Jeb Who might be a Johnny Reb Should he ebb and ebb? Full of ridicule Candidates can be a fool Mind has a loose tool. Leaving t......Read the rest...

...All is serene tonight along the banks of Antietam Creek. 'Neath the brooding moon, the battlefield looks so bleak. Bloodied ground was hallowed on this dire September day. On the field this night,......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...