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My Civil War Essays Homepage
Ode to Sumter
O Fatal Sumter! What have you done?
Where have all the noble young men gone?
You have called your sons from the South
To bomb, to shoot, to burn and to fire!
You have asked your youths from the North
To use railroad and telegraph wire!
From the East, fought New Bern and Hatterras,
Far North in St. Albans, you rained terrors.
Marched to the South, the swamp of Olustee
Extended Far West, laid the arid Valverde
Are these your utmost boundaries?
Like the horror written in the soldiers' diaries?
O Island Sumter! Where is thy Sting?
Wiping out six hundred thousand, for nothing?
Or be it for Honor and Glory
To preserve the mighty Country
State Right, Freedom were the core,
Cleansed the drying blood forever more.
Four bloody years you had exhausted
Food, horses, men, guns and resource
Your appetite had them all consumed
Until no more could they sing their tune.
Hoisted your wind-blown tattered banner
On the old rocky Isle of Sumter!
By Gordon Kwok
© Dec 1999
All rights reserved
My Civil War Essays Homepage
These are my essays on the American Civil War, or, the War between the States.
Preserve the Glorieta National Battlefield
Quoting President Woodrow Wilson on the Civil War
The Centennial Dedication of Ulysses S. Grant's National Memorial
Stonewall Jackson: the Man, the Soldier, the Legend
Torpedoes, submarine, air craft and air craft carrier in the Civil War era
Civil Liberties in wartime --- All The Laws But One
Re-visit the selection of the 1995 Collection Of the U.S. Commemorative Stamps on the Civil War
Two short stories on two little boys
The War Between the States, from A to Z
The Shirley House in Vicksburg
Introducing the 4 poems of Walt Whitman
Millennia Tour: Richmond and Petersburg
The handwritings of Lee, Johnston, Schofield, Grant and Stanton
The Revere Award / the Revere Brothers
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These are my other websites
Association to Commemorate the Chinese Serving in the American Civil War (AOL site) [Award winning website]
Alternative Chinese Serving in the American Civil War site (Geocities site)
Note: This is a backup webpage to look at, if the original AOL web page is down.
Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, MA
A List of Civil War Round Table Websites
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