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Book: American Civil War: Union

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The American Civil War took place between 1861-1865 between the Union and the Confederacy. These are poems written by Officers, Soldiers, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers, etc., during and after the American Civil War.

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  • One Day's Command
    The plumed staff officer gallops
      Along the swaying line,
    40 lines
  • The Charge At Port Hudson
    "Niggers won't fight" ah ha!
    "Niggers won't fight" ah ha!
    32 lines
  • The Charge Of The Mule Brigade
    Half a mile, half a mile,
      Half a mile onward,
    56 lines
  • The Copperheads
    Who are the men that clamor most
    Against the war, its cause and cost,
    38 lines
  • The Red Zouave
    The stars were bright, the breeze was still,
    The cicada and the whippoorwill,
    108 lines
  • Dead
    There's an empty seat where the old folks meet,
        When they offer their evening prayer,
    15 lines
  • The Swamp Angel
    Angels of good and ill are every where;
    They haunt the city and the cottage lone;
    28 lines
  • The Vicksburg Jail
    O, when the poar pris'ner is put in the jaile,
    he is put in a cell and his doors are all bar'd
    33 lines
  • The Zouaves At Bethel
    Five Zouaves killed! — one thousand in all —
      Five from a thousand? Then he may be one.
    40 lines
  • Only One Man Killed Today
    There are tears and wails in the old brown house
    On the hillside steep today,
    34 lines
  • If We Knew
    If we knew when friends around us
    Closely press to say goodbye
    7 lines
  • The Graybacks So Tenderly Clinging
    There were companions on the march, as every soldier found,
    With ceaseless zeal in digging deep in every spot around,
    16 lines
  • Song Of A Brigadier
    I wear a splendid uniform;
    I ride a splendid nag;
    52 lines
  • Company K
    There is a cap in the closet,
        Old, tattered, and blue—
    52 lines
  • The Dying Soldier
    Yes! raise me on your arm, Dick Dale,
    My comrade old and true.
    43 lines
  • Missing
    In the cool, sweet hush of a wooded nook,
        Where the May buds sprinkle the green old mound,
    42 lines
  • Shall I See My Boy Again
    Must I die so soon? ah, far away
    By blue Ohio's shore,
    23 lines, 2 comments
  • Send Them Home Tenderly
    Send them home tenderly,
    The sleepers at rest,
    34 lines
  • The Soldier's Christmas Eve
    In a southern forest gloomy and old,
    So lately the scene of a terrible fight,
    53 lines
  • The Snow At Fredericksburg
    Drift over the sunrise land,
      Oh, wonderful, wonderful snow!
    43 lines
  • The Soldier's Grave
    Breathe not a whisper here;
    The place where thou dost stand is hallowed ground;
    18 lines
  • Away Down South In The Land of Traitors
    Away down South in the land of traitors,
    Rattlesnakes and alligators,
    42 lines
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