Poetry of the American Civil War

Poetry of the Period	Poetry About the Period
After All by William Winters A Word for the Hour by John Greenleaf Whittier The Crossing at Fredericksburg by George Henry Boker	"I ride with cowboys who will soon be ghosts" "Dance the dog dance of the dead" "Hunting for the last time" "The devil is in the details" "The devil's more compassionate triage" "As fast as a deer crossing the highway" by William "Wild Bill" Taylor
A Word for the Hour by John Greenleaf Whittier Little Giffen by Francis Orray Tickner Driving Home the Cows by Kate Putnam Osgood	"Like skipping petals off the water" "Buddy's independent hand" "Between dream and awake" "Judgement day cometh in the morning, fair." "Suddenly I fall from my horse" "Power in the hands of the pale" Warning, golden butterflies mark the tomb of the unknown by William "Wild Bill" Taylor
Captain ! My Captain ! by Walt Whitman Sabine Cross--Roads by Billy R. Moore Pifer Co. C 77th Illinois Vols.	"Let us lay down the fight" "Little Rueben and Colonel Mosby, we will win!" "The execution of Private Eddie Slovik" "It is a good day to die" by William "Wild Bill" Taylor
Who Loved the Gray by Gideon Luke Roach	"Where Reuben Fell" "Ode to Ambrose Bierce" by William "Wild Bill" Taylor
	Grant by Frank Benway
	Gray Ghost by Frank Benway
	WILLIAM BLACK-Co. B - 55th Illinois by Frank Crawford
	ALBERT S. ROLLINS - Co. B - 95th Illinois by Frank Crawford
	JOHN RAMSEY - Co. B - 21st Illinois by Frank Crawford
	Poems by Del "Abe" Jones "Ghosts of Bull Run" 'Time to Go'

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