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Subject: FREDERICKSBURG, BATTLE OF (1862)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT FREDERICKSBURG [DECEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God send us peace, and keep red strife away
Last Line: No matter what birth or what race or what creed.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed
Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


FREDERICKSBURG, by JAMES ABRAHAM MARTLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rappahannock's swollen track
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


FREDERICKSBURG, by W. F. W.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eighteen hundred and sixty-two
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


INSCRIPTION FOR THE SLAIN AT FREDERICKSBURGH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glory lights an earnest end
Last Line: Strown their vale of death with palms.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


INSCRIPTION, FOR MARYE'S HEIGHTS, FREDERICKSBURG, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To them who crossed the flood
Last Line: Of more than victory the monument.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


THE CROSSING AT FREDERICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay in my tent at mid-day
Last Line: "and one more for michigan!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History