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Subject: APPOMATTOX, VIRGINIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LEE'S PAROLE, by MARION MANVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, general grant, have you heard the news?
Last Line: Preserved the north in the south's parole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pope, Marion Manville, Mrs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History


PASSING OF THE ARMIES; JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, 1865, by JOHN BURT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was at falling waters in a dream
Last Line: Ahead lay washington, half swamp, half shrine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914); U.s. - History


SIXTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dense clouds of dust on the virginia roads--
Last Line: Of appomattox—and the final scene!
Subject(s): Appomattox, Virginia; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.)


THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As billows upon billows roll
Last Line: Lee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History