Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska were the states of the decade,
Then came Dred Scot, Uncle Tom and John Brown’s Raid.
The U. S headed toward conflict rather fast.
Lincoln was elected and the die was cast.
"A nation divided against itself cannot stand."
Who was and what manner of man was this Republ-i-can?
Edmund Ruffin raised his sixty-four pound Columbiad gun.
Clio would tell which colors would run.
Johnny Reb kept the Capitol under continuous attack.
Lincoln asked to borrow McClellan’s Army of the Potomac.
The tides of battle shifted from side to side.
A sentry shot "Stonewall" Jackson on a scouting ride.
Machines guns, ironclads and technological weapons of misery
Made the Civil War the first modern war in history.
An elusive victory at Antietam was the North’s explanation
For Lincoln's issuance of the "Emancipation Proclamation."
This "Great Bloodshed" pitted son against son,
From Bull Run to Bull Run.
In upstate New York, Negroes came under mob attack.
White men died while the Blacks watched and sat back.
Free Men of Color fought for the "Blue and Gray".
Robert Smalls was a hero at Mobile Bay.
The sounds and SMELLS of the dying and DEAD really stink.
Lee threw everything at Meade except the kitchen sink.
In 1863, for three days before the FOURTH OF JULY,
The Gettysburg Battlefield saw 40, 000 soldiers die.
Jefferson Davis was a wanted man.
At Appomattox, Lee knew the South had made its last stand.
From one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-one thru sixty-five,
America fought mightily just to survive.
When the fighting and dying was done,
Red was the only color of the blood that had run.
When the tolls were finally taken,
Out of the turmoil emerged a "United Nation"!
It would take forever for the scars to heal.
Congress promised six million Blacks "40 acres and a mule".
The 15th Amendment gave freedmen the right to vote.
Nathan Bedford Forrest found a hate group of some note.
The Wormley House Compromise marked Reconstruction’s end.
The ex-slaves knew ole Massa would rise ag’in.
Blacks tried to rid themselves of the vestiges of slavery
Under the tutelage of Booker T. Washington from Tuskegee.
When America was very young,
Billy & Johnny* proved "These Colors Don't Run"!
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