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Civil War

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Below is a collection of poems dealing with the legacy of the Civil War, mostly written in the post-Bellum period (1870-1900). 

Readers might also want to explore the "Slavery" tag for poems that are more explicitly engaged with Abolitionism and profound legacy of Slavery on American culture. Other related tags worth exploring might be Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Lynching and Racialized Violence. 

Contents of this tag:

  1. Albery A. Whitman, "Not a Man, Yet a Man" (full text) (1877)
  2. T. Thomas Fortune, "Lincoln" (1902)
  3. James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913)
  4. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)
  5. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Unchained 1863" (1914)
  6. Lucian B. Watkins, "An Elegy to John Brown" (1907)
  7. Maurice N. Corbett, "Emancipation Proclamation and Arming of Blacks" (1914)
  8. Fenton Johnson, "Ethiopia" (1915)
  9. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Majors and Minors" (Full Text) (1895)
  10. Maurice N. Corbett, "The First colored Regiment (1st South Carolina) and Port Hudson" (1914)
  11. James Madison Bell, "The Triumph of Liberty" (1870)
  12. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
  13. Maurice N. Corbett, "Negroes Contrabands of War" (1914)
  14. Maurice N. Corbett, "Negroes Denied the Right to Enlist" (1914)
  15. Maurice N. Corbett, "Secession and Sumpter" (1914)
  16. Frank B. Coffin, "Only" (1897)
  17. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Unsung Heroes" (1903)
  18. Frank B. Coffin, "Lincoln's Call" (1897)
  19. Katherine D. Tillman, "Uncle Ned's Story" (1902)
  20. Hezekiah Butterworth, "Inspiration" (1903)
  21. Henry McNeal Turner, "The Conflict for Civil Rights: A Poem" (1881)
  22. Aubrey Bowser, "The Brown and the Blue" (1909)
  23. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Emancipation Celebration" (1920)
  24. Frances E.W. Harper, "Home, Sweet Home" (1895)
  25. Charles Frederick White, "A Historical Review" (1899/1908)
  26. George Reginald Margetson, "Ulysses S. Grant" (1928)
  27. Charles Frederick White, "Plea of the Negro Soldier" (1907/1908)
  28. Alonzo Milton Skrine, "The Negro's Worth" (1900)
  29. Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Blacks in Blue" (1917)
  30. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "My Hero (To Robert Gould Shaw)" (1915)
  31. Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Emancipators" (1917)
  32. John Riley Dungee, "Unwritten History" (1901)
  33. Walter Everette Hawkins, "The Black Soldiers" (1909)
  34. Josephine Heard, "Decoration Day" (1890)