Civil War Poetry

There were many reasons why Civil War poets wrote about the war. Some used the war to express their ideas concerning society, religion, and man’s place in the world. While others aspired to capture the effects of the war and its impact on the soldiers and their families. Few of the poets trying to capture the war’s effects approached realism because sentimentality and melodramatic temper was typical for their era. There were so …

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