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One poem set during this conflict describes "crank, pivot, and screw, and calculations" in "War now placed … among the trades and artisans." Another poem from this war asks "Would the singer attempt to sing? Would the lawyer rise in the court?" One poem set during this conflict exclaims "What like a bullet can undeceive!" and ends by saying that "over them the swallows skim, while all is hushed" on the title battlefield. "Beat! Beat! (*) Drums" was written by an author who described his time treating this war's wounded. In another poem, an old woman declares, "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, / But spare your country's flag" -- that poem is "Barbara Frietchie." For 10 points, name this conflict written about by Walt Whitman and John Whittier, as well as Julia Ward Howe in her "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
One poem set during this conflict describes "crank, pivot, and screw, and calculations" in "War now placed … among the trades and artisans."
the American Civil War [grudgingly prompt on “The War of Northern Aggression” or “The War Between the States”]