APRIL PAD DAY 23, 2015
Today's prompt is to write a historic poem.
CIVIL WAR
Brother against brother
Blue against gray
A nation divided
Yankee against Rebel
Confederate or Union
North and south
Lincoln and Davis
The blood of a nation
flowed together
in the trenches of Shiloh,
Antietam and Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
They were filled with the blood
of victory and defeat
Fought in a thousand places
from fields of Pennsylvania
all the way to Louisiana
From New Mexico to Florida
the war between brothers
stained the battlefields with blood
from Gettysburg to Vicksburg
After five long years
what started at Fort Sumter
ended at Appomattox
J Kuykendall
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