Stanley Cooper - Civil War

North against South, hatred unbound
Grant versus Lee - our country aflame
Young men maimed on no neutral ground
A blood potpourri, our nation in shame

Lincoln insisted the states stay united
Secession he would not abide
The wrongs of slavery had to be righted
He resisted a North-South divide

Few wars are fought with such hate
America stained by its blood and its gore
Its name lacks credence or weight
As nothing was civil in this Civil War

Stanley Cooper

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