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Subject: WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN (1864)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE WILDERNESS, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When clifford wasn’t back to camp by nine
Last Line: He’d wet his pants. We called it yankee tea
Subject(s): Wilderness Campaign (1864)


AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence and solitude may hint
Last Line: Silent as I, and lonesome as the land.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was an indiana corporal
Subject(s): Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Wilderness Campaign (1864)


AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was an indiana corporal
Last Line: We could have passed for new york infantry
Subject(s): Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Wilderness Campaign (1864)


CAN'T, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How history repeats itself
Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may
Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day


OBSEQUIES OF STUART, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We could not pause, while yet the noontide air
Last Line: In victory careering!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS (1863-4), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like snows the camps on southern hills
Last Line: Of the funeral light.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)