‘When the Regiment Came Back’ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was not a Civil War poet, per se, although she did live through the war and at least had the direct experience of seeing her brothers leave to serve their country....
Tagged: poems
A Thomas Hill Christmas Poem
Today we have a Christmas poem written by Thomas Hill (1818-1891), taken from a 16-page booklet entitled Christmas, and poems on slavery, for Christmas, 1843 in support of an anti-slavery fair in Massachusetts. The then...
Nat Turner Rebellion Blamed on Abolitionists
Nat Turner was hanged on November 11, 1831, for his bloody insurrection in Virginia 29 years before the Civil War officially took place, but the slave’s revolt contributed even more fuel to the simmering...
Shores of Tennessee
Ethel Lynn Beers (1827-1879) was a poet most famous for “All Quiet Along the Potomac,” which was originally published under the title “The Picket Guard” in “Harper’s Weekly” in November of 1861, bearing the initials E.B. Nobody...
John Wilkes Booth in Hell
John Wilkes Booth turns up in an early 20th century poem, ever the villain, playing the sax in hell
Herman Melville on the Gray Ghost
The Gray Ghost, as John S. Mosby was known, inspired both the Union and Confederate armies. Mosby and his men inspired pride in the South and struck fear in the hearts of Union soldiers. That fear...
Fort Sumter
Welcome to Iron Brigader, a blog about the Civil War. It seems fitting for our first entry, to post a poem about Fort Sumter. SUMTER (April 12, 1861) Came the morning of that day...