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Subject: MCCLELLAN, GEORGE BRINTON (1826-1885)
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HOW MCCLELLAN TOOK MANASSAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heard ye how the bold mcclellan
Last Line: Tell on shaft and storied brasses / how he took the famed man assas
Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885);u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of;


TARDY GEORGE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "what are you waiting for, george, I pray?"
Last Line: "but to drill and cypher, and hammer and forge - / what are you waiting for, tardy george?"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885);u.s. - History;


THE VICTOR AT ANTIETAM [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When tempest winnowed grain from bran
Last Line: And great antietam's cheers renew.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); United States - History


WANTED - A MAN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back from the trebly crimsoned field
Last Line: "abraham lincoln, give us a man!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); Men; U.s. - History