North against South, hatred unbound <br />Grant versus Lee - our country aflame <br />Young men maimed on no neutral ground <br />A blood potpourri, our nation in shame <br /> <br />Lincoln insisted the states stay united <br />Secession he would not abide <br />The wrongs of slavery had to be righted <br />He resisted a North-South divide <br /> <br />Few wars are fought with such hate <br />America stained by its blood and its gore <br />Its name lacks credence or weight <br />As nothing was civil in this Civil War<br /><br />Stanley Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/civil-war/
