GIVING A FACE TO CIVIL WAR STATISTICS
CIVIL WAR GRAVES LEAKING TOXINS
Beat! beat! drums!-blow! bugles! blow!
Make no parley-stop for no expostulation,
Mind not the timid-mind not the weeper or prayer,
Mind not the old man beseeching the young man,
Let not the child’s voice be heard, nor the mother’s entreaties,
Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the
hearses,
So strong you thump O terrible drums-so loud you bugles blow.
**words by Walt Whitman
Scary thought, that arsenic from the old graves. As for the Civil War, while no war is easy, that one has always weighed on me as the most awful. How different the world might have been had they found another way to settle the issues.
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