AMERICAN POETRY; Poems by Bryant, Longfellow and Halleck. Share full article. Jan. 30, 1864. ... but out of the fiery furnace of the civil war, when all was over, ...

American poetry and the Civil War. Several decades before the Civil War, the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz asserted, in his influential treatise On War, that “war is merely ...

His Poem No Longer Memorized, Even The Plaque Is Gone. Generations of American schoolchildren were compelled to read and memorize a Civil War poem by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872) titled ...